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I’m now around every Friday morning for a 30 minute chat about anything you like. Book a time slot that works for you.
on Apr 7
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In defence of fluid typography
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This is a response to Miriam Suzanne’s excellent post on Reimagining Fluid Typography. She poses lots of really interesting questions, some of which I disagree with, but most of all they got me thinking… and writing.
on Mar 19
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Another uncalled-for blog post about the ethics of using AI
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I read a couple of posts about AI recently, which seemed to hold opposing ideas, but I agreed with them both to some extent. I’m conflicted, but what I do know is that I find LLMs useful on occasion, but every time I use one I die a little inside.
on Mar 18
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The web on mobile (a response)
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In Jeremy’s recent post, “The web on mobile”, he bemoans the mobile web experience. I had some further thoughts, including: if web apps are to compete with native apps in the affections of users, then they need to be equivalent.
on Feb 25
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Beware the faux bold (and how to fix it)
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I don’t know if it’s just me, or if something’s happened in the last few months, but I keep seeing faux bolds everywhere. The fix is tiny and simple, although frankly the mistake is pretty basic – there’s no excuse for it being so prevalent.
on Feb 7
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What I learned by creating a dark mode toggle
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The short answer is: quite a lot. The long answer covers some accessibility issues, some new CSS, some slightly older CSS, some high level colour theory, a bit about SVGs, and some typography finessing; all of which I’ll cover in this post.
on Jan 21
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Highlighting code syntax in Keynote
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How to quickly get code syntax highlighting in Keynote without having to select each bit of code and changing the colour manually.
on Jan 9
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There used to be a page on Wikipedia listing pangrams in various languages. This was deleted yesterday. Pangrams can be occasioanlly useful for designers, so I’ve resurrected the page of here, pretty much as it was in Wikipedia.
on Dec 8
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The problem with superscripts and subscripts
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A bug in Chromium and Safari makes support of proper superscript and subscript characters problematic. See exactly why, and what you might be able to do about it.
on Oct 4
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Introducing TODS – a typographic and OpenType default stylesheet
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Introducing a new open source web typography project. The idea is to have a default CSS file to set sensible typographic defaults for use on prose text, making particular use of the font features provided by OpenType.
on Sep 23
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Use of ch unit considered inappropriate (in certain circumstances)
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When did we start using the ch unit to specify the maximum length for a line of text in CSS? To do so makes assumptions that don’t necessarily hold up, and there are more appropriate units to use. Also: was it my fault?
on Jun 26
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A modern approach to browser support
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Recently we realised Clearleft didn’t have a written browser support policy. Rather than fixating on specific browsers, we needed to a policy that considered capabilities and outcomes for users. It turns out there’s an initiative for that.
on Jun 4
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Dao Day 2024 – a regression in the making
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It’s twenty four years to the day since A List Part published John Allsopp’s seminal treatise A Dao of Web Design. But all this time on, we’re still making the same mistakes.
on Apr 9, 2024
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Design does not mean innovation
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Design has nothing to do with innovation and little to do with creativity. For the most part it’s there to help de-risk your business, but we tend not to talk about it like that.
on Apr 4, 2024
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As part of my forthcoming Patterns Day talk I decided to rebuild the newly redesigned Creative Boom article page using Utopian fluid typography to replace its multitude of breakpoints. This is the story of why and how.
on Mar 4, 2024