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What’s new in web typography?
This is a question I’ll be answering next month at Web Day Out conference. I’ll be clinging on to the coat-tails of a host of brilliant people who’ll be answering the wider question “what you can do in...
View ArticleHelpful rather than hurtful to the interests of mankind
In the early 1940s, Directors General of the BBC, Cecil Graves and William Haley had this to say about the revolutionary technology of radio and television broadcasting: This country has in its hands...
View ArticleMy requests for Interop 2026
It’s the time of year again when browser makers ask which shiny new features they should implement in preference to addressing outstanding bugs and omissions. Apologies for the cynicism, but having...
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Critical questions for design leaders working with AI
Earlier this year, through its Leading Design program, Clearleft brought 40 design leaders together in New York to shape a shared vision for the future of design leadership in a world of artificial...
View ArticleI have Unfinished Business
I’m starting a podcast. I hear they are all the rage at the moment. Yes that’s right, in shock news two middle aged men – my good friend Andy Clarke, and I – have decided to host a podcast. To be more...
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Use of ch unit considered inappropriate (in certain circumstances)
Update: The title of this post was originally a knowing nod to the considered harmful cliché. I thought it might be amusing and get a bit of attention. However it was brought to my attention by a few...
View ArticleA modern approach to browser support
Just recently, some front-end code Clearleft delivered to a client was making its way through acceptance testing. We were slightly surprised to discover that their standards required our code to be...
View ArticleDao Day 2024 – a regression in the making
It’s twenty four years to the day since A List Part published John Allsopp’s seminal treatise A Dao of Web Design. It must be one of the most vital and cited articles ever to be written about web...
View ArticleDesign does not mean innovation
Design has nothing to do with innovation and little to do with creativity. For the most part it's there to help de-risk your business, but we tend not to talk about it like that. We often conflate...
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Retrofitting fluid typography
Back in December 2023, Creative Boom launched a refreshed identity and a redesigned website. It’s a terrific magazine and the redesign does a great job of bringing impactful imagery to the fore, with...
View ArticleResponsive typography and its role in design systems
Later this year – 7 March 2024 to be precise – I’ll be talking at Patterns Day, the one-day conference for designers and developers focused on design systems, pattern libraries, style guides, and...
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Pagination widows, or, Why I’m embarrassed about my ebook
The physical copies of my book on Web Typography sold out quickly. I self-published, and print runs are expensive when you’re funding them yourself, so numbers were limited. However it was always my...
View ArticlePreventing too-short final lines of text blocks
At the end of my previous post heralding an end to typographic widows on the web I wrote that I’d settle for direct control over widows and orphans in text blocks. It turns out not to be quite as a...
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An end to typographic widows on the web
Currently shipping in Chrome Canary, and thus soon to be in Blink-based browsers including Edge, is a relatively new CSS declaration which promises to virtually end typographic widows. The...
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Font optical sizing bug in Safari 16
Update: as of Safari 16.4, this bug has been fixed. I’ve updated the code snippet to reflect this. Thanks to the efforts of Myles and team for turning this around so quickly. In my previous post I...
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New year, new typeface: switching to variable fonts
This site used to be set in two primary typefaces. By no coincidence, this was based on the combination I used in the Web Typography book: Ingeborg for headings, and Premiéra for body text, both...
View ArticleMy experience of using ChatGPT AI
Since the first lockdown, Clearleft has become a remote-first organisation. This means we have some important rituals to help foster our sense of team and community. One of those is a fortnightly...
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Font optical sizing bug in Safari 16
In my previous post I extolled the virtues of Literata’s font optical sizing, in particular how it worked automatically in the browser. By ‘it’ I mean how the corresponding style was chosen along the...
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New year, new typeface: switching to variable fonts
This site used to be set in two primary typefaces. By no coincidence, this was based on the combination I used in the Web Typography book: Ingeborg for headings, and Premiéra for body text, both...
View ArticleMy experience of using ChatGPT AI
Since the first lockdown, Clearleft has become a remote-first organisation. This means we have some important rituals to help foster our sense of team and community. One of those is a fortnightly...
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