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The art and technique of arranging type: fonts, pairings, and hierarchy

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I set the Chinese line 3px smaller than the English. It still rendered larger.

I set the Chinese line 3px smaller than the English. It still rendered larger.

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Creating a flexible and responsive text container

Creating a flexible and responsive text container

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CSS text-wrap: balanced headlines, no lonely words

CSS text-wrap: balanced headlines, no lonely words

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How text on a circle is laid out, rebuilt in Python with fontTools

How text on a circle is laid out, rebuilt in Python with fontTools

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tidy-typography.css is a reset that only touches the text

tidy-typography.css is a reset that only touches the text

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Which font is this? Chrome DevTools knows, in a section most people never scroll to

Which font is this? Chrome DevTools knows, in a section most people never scroll to

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We built FontKind to see which fonts real websites load together

We built FontKind to see which fonts real websites load together

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We built FontForThat: find free font alternatives and try them with your own text

We built FontForThat: find free font alternatives and try them with your own text

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A 5.86 MB font sat in my app for three months. No CSS rule ever referenced it.

A 5.86 MB font sat in my app for three months. No CSS rule ever referenced it.

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Intl.Segmenter: split text without breaking emoji

Intl.Segmenter: split text without breaking emoji

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Building an Arabic calligraphy generator with zero dependencies: fonts, SVG embedding and a 40-line PDF writer

Building an Arabic calligraphy generator with zero dependencies: fonts, SVG embedding and a 40-line PDF writer

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Kern: exploring variable fonts and generating fluid type

Kern: exploring variable fonts and generating fluid type

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Preserving Global Cultural Heritage: The World's Largest Multilingual Open Typography Archives on GitHub & GitLab

Preserving Global Cultural Heritage: The World's Largest Multilingual Open Typography Archives on GitHub & GitLab

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Aesthetic Fonts and Text Styles: What Actually Works in Bios, Captions and Chats

Aesthetic Fonts and Text Styles: What Actually Works in Bios, Captions and Chats

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How 'fancy fonts' actually work: Unicode look-alike characters, explained

How 'fancy fonts' actually work: Unicode look-alike characters, explained

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