Good morning! One small tip for your Monday morning typographic perambulations: I think we should always make headings darker than the body text. It’s a small change but it has a significant impact on longer chunks of text and is especially useful if you’re typesetting both headings and body text with the same...

I made this silly thing yesterday after I got back from a walk and was feeling rage beyond words: See the Pen Wear a mask animation by Robin Rendle (@robinrendle) on CodePen. I’ll be sure to write about how I made it in the CSS-Tricks newsletter which is published every Monday morning and it always has a bunch of...

Here’s a smart idea from Jonnie Hallman: adding a reply link at the end of an entry in an RSS feed. Just as Jonnie mentions there, some folks reach out with smart ideas via email to some notes that I have as well. But I should really encourage those sorts of replies because they’re always interesting to read. So I...

Anne Trubek, writing in her excellent newsletter, Notes From A Small Press, has some thoughts about how writing a book isn’t really the point for many authors. Instead, they’re all attracted to the prestige of publishing and its many trappings. And this is why they hire ghost writers and receive giant book deals,...

Jamelle Bouie: Most Republican senators voted to remove the unemployment expansion at its full size, but it survived. Billions of dollars of benefits have gone to tens of millions of Americans. The increase in aid was so great that, as The New York Times reported last month, the federal poverty rate declined even as...

Last night I sat down to test out a mic I just picked up and boy howdy I didn’t know I had this rant in me. In the future I’ll keep these much shorter perhaps but this one is apparently about: Audio logs and videogames! Vulnerability/writing The difference between a personal site and social networks Working alone on...

Well, now there’s a hot take huh. But let me explain. I think one of my shortcomings when it comes to design is this: I always want to fix the problem. I want to have the perfect idea, the perfect design doc, ready to go and implement right this second. But wait...isn’t this what design is supposed to do, solve...

I love the big dad energy of this introductory video to mmhmm, an app that lets you customize video presentations in a bunch of nifty ways. But what I like about it is that there’s no sense of “I hAvE rEdesIgned vIdEo FoR tHe 21st CenTurY,” which is perhaps the most annoying aspect about marketing of any kind today....

Now this is very interesting: the other day Robin released Sloanstarter, his very own crowdfunding campaign for his web/ebook/Kindle novella (personally, I prefer web novella or might I suggest webvella? Oh, I might not? Wow, rude.) The idea is simple. You pay Robin $9 for the story you’ll get a variety of ways to...

Via Robin’s newsletter I just spotted this release on Future Fonts of Nichrome by Mass-Driver, “a display face referencing the typography of paperback science fiction from the 70s and early 80s.” And these numbers in particular are rather striking—make sure to look very closely at that 3: I’m an enormous fan of...

On April 16th, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a letter from jail, where he was imprisoned for marching against segregation, and Jason Pamental made a rather lovely typeset version. In fact, Jason’s newsletter is a constant wellspring of lovely typeset things. Rereading Dr King’s letter though it’s shocking that...

This is a reminder for myself in the future that all the work that Mandy Michael has been doing with variable fonts is remarkable and showcases what’s possible if we start to push the web into a weird place with fonts. See the Pen Corgo's with Jason by Mandy Michael (@mandymichael) on CodePen.