Tagged “fonts”

1. TIL the history of fonts Dec 21, 2022 fonts history browser

   We came up with all sorts of clever techniques to do what was called 'image replacement' for text. Some of the techniques involved CSS and background images. One of the techniques involved Flash

2. TIL self-hosting your own Google Fonts Nov 19, 2022 fonts optimization cdn selfhost

   I'm all for self-hosting. So seeing this question asked 'Should you self-host Google Fonts?', my immediate answer is ABSOLUTELY. But here's the edge-cases.

3. TIL Icon Fonts being the suckfest that they are Sep 28, 2022 accessibility fonts svg

   In 99% of all use-cases, SVGs are better.

4. TIL how to make numbers the same width and prevent shifting layout May 02, 2022 css fonts twitter mdn

   If your font supports it, you can use 'font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums'.

5. TIL why emojis in JS counts as a length of 2 Aug 11, 2021 javascript fonts

   Characters are written in UTF-16. Emojis are bigger, and require two characters.

6. TIL how fonts draw greyscale May 05, 2021 fascinating fonts

   This may be super esoteric knowledge and could have incredibly limited usecases beyond this post.

7. TIL System font stack May 03, 2021 css fonts

8. TIL When to use Serif vs San-serif May 02, 2021 css fonts

   Serifs are recognized for having small decorative lines added as embellishment. San-Serif is basic.

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