UK Museums on the Web 2012
UK Museums on the Web is a one day conference organised by the Museums Computer Group and held in the lecture theatre of the Wellcome Collection. Representatives from museums and other organisations in...
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A new year, a new design
To my surprise, Clagnut.com was last redesigned in September 2008 – that’s getting on for 6 years ago. Well, that’s all changed now, as will be evident to you, unless you’re viewing this in a RSS...
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In conversation with Brighton station about CCTV
A few days ago I was stuck at Brighton railway station, watching trains get delayed and eventually cancelled. In the end I gave up waiting for carriage to take me to my meeting in London, and went back...
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Web Typography is now open source
In December 2005 I launched Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web, a practical guide to web typography using Robert Bringhurst’s book The Elements of Typographic Style as a basis. The site...
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The Big Dog Cometh
Dave and Mikey climbing through Stanmer woods Back in December I [knackered my Achilles tendon](https://twitter.com/clagnut/status/409365946919559168) while out running. Since then I’ve been [getting...
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Soft hyphen bug in Webkit
Recently a [Fontdeck](http://fontdeck.com/) customer asked for help regarding a problem he was having with a soft hyphen. As I investigated further, it revealed a peculiar bug in Mac-based Webkit...
View ArticleScattered notes from Dots
The inaugural [Dots conference](http://brilliantnoise.com/dots/), organised by the nice folk at [Brilliant Noise](http://brilliantnoise.com/), provided a very enjoyable day on the loose subject of...
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The Scourge of Helvetica Neue Light
I’m no lover of Helvetica but neither do I hate it. I’d be walking around carrying a lot of hate if I did. That said I really do have an aversion to Helvetica Neue Light, or rather an aversion to when...
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List of pangrams
As [Mark tweeted](https://twitter.com/markboulton/status/527874228356673536) today, there used to be [a page on Wikipedia listing pangrams](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pangrams) in various...
View ArticleBrief thoughts about web typography in 2015
Last week Digital Arts online featured me, among others, in a piece on [web fonts in...
View ArticleBack my Web Typography book
I’ve wanted to write a book on Web Typography for over ten years, and now it’s finally going to happen. I hope. I’m funding the book through Kickstarter, so please [back my...
View ArticleConference diversity from an organiser’s perspective
We organise a lot of conferences at [Clearleft](http://clearleft.com) ([dConstruct](http://dconstruct.org), [UX London](http://uxlondon.com), [Responsive Day Out](http://responsiveconf.com),...
View ArticleUse rems for global sizing, use ems for local sizing
The following is an unedited extract from my [forthcoming book](http://book.webtypography.net/). I chose this chapter because I felt it would be useful standing on its own. I should point out that this...
View ArticleChrome just got darker
A couple of days ago, my installation of Google Chrome updated itself from version 49 to version 50. The timing was fortuitous and relieved me of a growing headache. A few days before the update I had...
View ArticleChoco Leibniz
In a rare excursion we delve in some Friday political commentary from Half Man Half Biscuit: I try to put everything into perspectiveSet it against the scale of human sufferingAnd I thought of the...
View ArticleThe importance of putting your champions on a pedestal
Over the past few years I’ve had the pleasure of working with a [London council](http://clearleft.com/made/rbkc). In a nutshell the job was to completely redesign the web site to make it far easier for...
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Getting started with variable fonts
The following is an unedited extract from my [forthcoming book](http://book.webtypography.net/). In October 2016, version 1.8 of OpenType was [released](https://medium.com/@tiro/12ba6cd2369), and with...
View ArticleHow to use variable fonts in the real world
A variable font is a single font file which behaves like multiple styles. (I wrote more about them [here](https://medium.com/@clagnut/get-started-with-variable-fonts-c055fd73ecd7) in an extract from my...
View ArticleUpcoming changes to the CSS you need for variable fonts
Two weeks ago I was invited to Berlin for a CSS Working Group three-day meeting. One afternoon was dedicated to resolving issues with the CSS Text and Font modules. Two resolutions in particular will...
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Top Tunes 2018
Back after a decidedly long hiatus, here’s a compilation of favourite songs I bought in the last year (note not all were released this year). It was a damn fine year in my view, and I certainly...
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