Web Typography News

This week is one I’ve been awaiting for quite some time. Really since before I even started this process. It’s also the first time I’m…

This week has a big update to the typographic scaling that features some very new CSS about which I’m pretty excited. It’s featuring a new…

Last week we added web fonts to our project — both static and variable versions. This week we’re going to add font loading management and…

This is a big week for the project. While it was in important step last week to establish some basic responsiveness, we couldn’t really…

The feedback I’ve received over the past week has been amazing, and matches my own excitement about this project. I’ve spent a lot of time…

I don’t know when it was I started using the text of Moby Dick in my workshops and talks. Likely it dates back to some of my earliest…

This week’s issue took a bit of a meander. I started thinking I might make another Google Fonts API tutorial. But part way through that I…

Inspiration has struck yet again in the form of an email from International Poster Gallery in Boston. I love vintage travel posters, and…

Once again this week there were a few different threads coming together to inspire this issue. I’m continuing to explore amazing examples…

A few things coalesced to inspire the issue this week, and they bring us back to exploring some beautiful cover designs dating from the…

This week marks the launch of a project nearly a year in the making. Or at least it’s been almost a year that conversations have been…

This week we’re going to dig in to more text effects. In keeping with the idea of exploring more editorial design without requiring lots…

Following on from last week’s issue (and inspired a bit by receiving the latest Type Directors Club annual in the post), I spent some more…

When looking through some vintage posters on the International Poster Gallery’s site not long ago I was really struck by this work by…

One thing I’ve ended up doing on several projects lately — including my own site — is to style ordered (and unordered) lists with a…

Last week I wrote a bit (well, a lot) about what the web wants from type designers, foundries, and providers when it comes to variable…

[Spoiler alert: it’s you, and your variable fonts]

Type is the voice of our words — and typography sets the tone

I’ve been spending some time looking at some typography annuals, inspired by Aga Naplocha’s fantastic talk at Finch Front-End in Edinburgh…

While I was at ATypI Tokyo a couple weeks ago, Google had some big announcements (I covered those a bit last week). The new version of…