Typography

Chrome intends to ship CSS headline balancing, and the future looks bright for expressive web typography.

We just shipped the largest update to cloudfour.com since 2016! This time around, we had three main goals…

Font subsetting allows you to split a font's characters (letters, numbers, symbols, etc.) into separate files so your visitors only download what they need. There are two main subsetting strategies that have different advantages depending on the type of site you're building.

I recently worked on a project where the topic of variable fonts came up when discussing typeface legibility. I had heard the term before, but I wasn’t quite sure what a variable font was. Curious, I did…

A loosely organized and inexhaustive list of feedback and suggestions I frequently give designers.

Incorporating contrast checks into our process has fundamentally changed the way we approach color in our design systems.

When starting new projects, a CSS builder’s initial concerns tend to involve typography. Setting a typographic foundation with the right mixture of ingredients can form something solid enough to support many other building blocks of…

Icons are everywhere. These “little miracle workers” (as John Hicks described them) help us reinforce meaning in the interfaces we design and build. Their popularity in web design has never been greater; the conciseness…

A few weeks back, we started hearing from Chrome users about a rather bizarre problem. They’d visit our site, only to find that the text was completely invisible: (Poor Jason, all alone, no…