hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #733 (2025-11-18): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s Drop discusses the LINE Seed brand typeface, designed for multilingual use. It also explores Japanese chopstick sleeves as cultural artifacts reflecting Japan’s modernization and shares Jonathan Hoefler’s insights on typographic illusions.

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  • Drop #730 (2025-11-11): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s Drop introduces three unique typefaces: Myrna, which enhances code readability by equalizing symbols and letters; Tongari Display, inspired by Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai; and Avería, generated by averaging various fonts on the creator’s computer. Each font showcases innovative design principles.

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  • Drop #726 (2025-11-04): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop discusses the COLRv1 standard for color fonts enabling dynamic, scalable typography with gradients and animations. It features two specific fonts, Primecolor, which utilizes OpenTypeSVG for vivid lettering, and Nabla, inspired by vintage arcade style, both showcasing the capabilities of COLRv1 in modern web browsers.

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  • Drop #723 (2025-10-29): CSS • JS • HTML

    Today’s Drop discusses three core web topics: CSS’s 239 methods of representing the color blue (O_O), the inefficiencies of using await in JavaScript loops, and the HTML Popover API for creating overlays. It emphasizes the complexities arising from legacy choices in CSS, performance patterns in JavaScript, and the [in]accessibility features of popovers.

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  • Drop #722 (2025-10-28): Typography Tuesday

    This week’s typographic edition of the Drop explores 3 key resources: 1984.design’s Typography Basics provides a friendly guide to type communication, while Codepoints.net serves as a searchable atlas for Unicode characters. And, The Is It Tofu? tool helps prevent missing characters in web content.

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  • Drop #719 (2025-10-17): Free-Form Friday

    Today’s Drop covers Gephi Lite, a user-friendly, browser-based tool for network visualization, allowing exploration of graphs on mobile devices without installation. It also digs a little into Isochrones which represent areas reachable within specified travel times, accounting for real-world conditions. And, it links to the prompts in The Obsidian AI tagger which enhances note-taking through…

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  • Drop #718 (2025-10-16): Toss-Up Thursday

    Today’s Drop shares insights on three resources: WorkKit, which decodes Apple’s iWork formats; a critique on software “un-quality” normalization; and AstroDither, a creative coding project for audio-visual interaction.

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  • Drop #717 (2025-10-14): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s Drop explores comic book lettering as a visual language with distinct grammar, emphasizing artistic conventions. It features the New Heterodox Mono font, blending elegance with functionality in programming. Additionally, it highlights the necessity of using relative CSS units for accessible web design and mastering modern typography principles for improved user experience.

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  • Drop #715 (2025-10-10): Web-Slinging Friday

    Today’s webby Drop highlights the HTML element’s purpose, the Journal of Web Engineering’s efforts to establish web development standards, and the risks of old SSL certificates through BygoneSSL, which can lead to various cybersecurity threats.

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  • Drop #714 (2025-10-07): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s Drop introduces Retrocide Mono, a unique monospaced font suitable for retro-futurist designs, devoid of descenders for a mechanical look. It highlights James Edmondson’s OH no Type School as an interactive resource for learning glyph design. Additionally, it presents RoboFont, a powerful, Python-based macOS font editor offering extensive customization for type designers.

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