This content originally appeared on Better Web Type and was authored by Matej Latin
News
- I recently wrote an article about my journey to becoming more productive and efficient for the GitLab blog. Check it out here.
- Jeremiah Shoaf from Typewolf published a review of the best typography books for designers. He didn’t include my book which is written specifically for designers and developers but I still highly recommend going through his list.
Featured
Preloading fonts: when does it make sense?
I wrote this blog post before the holidays. The inspiration for it was the most recent website that I worked on for one of my personal projects. I wanted to see whether it makes more sense to use the font-display CSS property or preloading a font. What effects do each have on the perceived performance?
Font of the month
JetBrain Mono
I just learned about this font (and about JetBrain) and decided to use this font for my coding from now on. It looks so good! ?And what’s best, it’s OpenSource! Take a look at its presentation, which is quite cool, and decide for yourself.
Cool Articles
How to test readability
I loved this very practical guide to testing the readability of a text.
A short history of body copy sizes on the Web
If you’re anything like me (old enough to remember the early websites in the late 90s) you’ll recall that we actually used really small font sizes back then. This article explores how this changed through time.
Font licensing is ill, please help heal it
You pay a fixed price for a desktop font license but a “per pageviews” price for a web font license. This doesn’t make any sense.
Did you know?
Many people believe that serif fonts are easier to read and that’s why they’re often used for longer texts. But this turns out to be a myth based on discredited work by Cyril Burt who made up a lot of things, including his co-authors of the scientific papers.
Photo of the month
Just published a blog post about my favourite 5 books I read in 2019. ??? These are the ones which had a profound impact on my life or changed my view on something. @matejlatin.
This content originally appeared on Better Web Type and was authored by Matej Latin
Matej Latin | Sciencx (2020-01-20T14:45:24+00:00) Cool new stuff in web typography in January ’20. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2020/01/20/cool-new-stuff-in-web-typography-in-january-20/
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