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A Guide to Recognising Font Styles
Telling font styles apart was one of the hardest things to do when I started working as a designer. Being self-taught, the only major difference I could see was that a font was either a serif or a sans-serif. But the more I explored, the more I realised how vast the universe of font styles actually is.
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July ’19
Gangster Grotesk is the featured free font of this edition, we take a look at using vertical rhythm in Sketch, optimizing Google Fonts performance and the new font loading strategy for CSS Tricks.
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Vertical Rhythm in Sketch
Designing with a baseline grid in Sketch speeds up the visual design process, enables designers to produce consistent mockups and establishes a consistent vertical rhythm in the designs.
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5 Keys to Accessible Web Typography
I wrote about fluid web typography in last month’s blog post and I realised that a lot of the popular implementation techniques come with accessibility issues. So I wanted to go back and revisit the basics and the best practices of accessible web typography.
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June ’19
Silka is the featured free font of this edition, we take a look at the state of fluid web typography, Alibaba Sans and how Gotham took over the world.
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The State of Fluid Web Typography
Fluid typography gives us so many opportunities to better design the reading experiences on the web but, at the same time, it introduces problems of font sizes scaling uncontrollably and potential accessibility issues. Is fluid web typography ready to be used?
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May ’19
Moon 2.0 is the featured free font of this edition, we take a look at articles about line height in Figma, variable fonts and stories behind some classic typefaces.
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April ’19
Cooper Hewitt is the featured free font of this edition, we take a look at articles about font metrics, interface typography and typography in design systems.
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March ’19
League Spartan is the featured free font of this edition, we take a look at making Google fonts load faster and more CSS typographic experiments.
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February ’19
Reno Mono is the featured free font of this edition, we take a look at Typetura—a new tool for fluid web typography and pure CSS lettering experiments.
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January ’19
Marvin Visions is the featured free font of this edition, we also take a look at how AirBnb introduced a custom typeface to their UI and the difference between variable and parametric fonts.
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December ’18
Optician Sans is the featured free font of this edition, we also take a look at improving the performance of web font loading subsetting numerals.
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November ’18
Times Newer Roman is the featured free font of this edition, we also take a look at articles about mastering typography in Sketch.
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Rhythm in Web Typography
Horizontal rhythm mostly impacts the legibility, while vertical rhythm impacts the readability of the text and establishes a sense of visual hierarchy.
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October ’18
Inter UI from Figma is the featured free font of this edition, we also take a look at a demo of CSS OpenType features and typesetting in text rendering in Sketch.
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September ’18
Space Grotesq is the featured free font of this edition, we also take a look at fonts people actually use, OpenSource fonts, and articles about variable fonts.
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A Guide to Combining Fonts
Combining fonts is one of the trickiest parts of typography. Here’s a guide, combined with an example to help you get font combinations right.
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