hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #595 (2025-01-21): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric version fo the Drop explores the term “Book” weight in typography, rooted in German nomenclature, but has led to confusion in its application, especially during the ITC era. Ohno Type Co. has developed Degular and Degular Mono typefaces for versatile design use, while Berkeley Mono 2.0 continues to evolve, providing options for modern…

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  • Drop #592 (2025-01-15): In Living Color

    Today’s colorful drop features Flexoki, a color scheme for coding and prose; the “Definitive Ranking of Pantone Colors of the Year”, and. Colorify Rocks’ tools for discovering harmonious color combinations, emphasizing accessibility through various free resources.

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  • Drop #587 (2025-01-07): (Tardy) Typography Tuesday

    Today’s (tardy) typography-centric edition of the Drop discusses kinetic typography, a technique that animates text to express ideas through motion, and the Fast Font typeface, which enhances reading speed by bolding word beginnings. It also introduces CSS’s text-wrap: balance property, improving visual text layouts by evenly distributing text across lines for better readability.

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  • Drop #586 (2025-01-06): Scroll Out The Barrel

    Today’s Drop is all about “scrolling”, just in very different contexts. Blogscroll is a curated directory of personal websites, the seekrit middle section is all about accessibility; and Scrollama is a JavaScript library for implementing scrollytelling features efficiently.

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  • Drop #583 (2025-01-01): Wrapping Day

    The inaugural Drop of 2025 takes a look back at the Drops of 2024, my 2025+ daily drivers, and covers a new-to-me tool: Mise.

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  • Drop #582 (2024-12-31): Typography Tuesday

    The final Typography Tuesday of 2024 reviews a novel font ownership model that offers royalties for designers. Additionally, notable typography talks from the Letterform Archive explored data visualization, icon technologies, and historical design influences, emphasizing unique contributions from diverse designers. We can’t leave 2024 w/o a present, in the form of free fonts from the…

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  • Drop #573 (2024-12-17): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s Typography-centric edition of the Drop features Badkeming’s exploration of kerning failures, the unique Alpha Lyrae font with glitch effects, and the narrative importance of comic lettering.

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  • Drop #572 (2024-12-16): Mixed-up Monday

    Today’s Drop introduces three distinct resources: MarkItDown, a Markdown conversion tool by (ugh) Microsoft; the “4 Colors Formula” for effective design using four color roles; and Hyperfine, a Rust-based benchmarking tool for performance measurement.

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  • Drop #570 (2024-12-11): Miles & Miles Of The CSS Styles

    Today’s Drop reviews 2024’s latest CSS advancements, [re]visits a CSS lightweight framework designed for simplicity, and explores a quick trick for creating color palettes using CSS.

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  • Drop #569 (2024-12-10): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s Drop features Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps which showcase remarkable artistry with unique, hand-drawn letterforms that create a distinct typographic style for each location. Additionally, two free fonts, 3270font and Libre Caslon Condensed, offer modern adaptations of classic typography.

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