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  • Drop #600 (2025-01-28): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop takes a gander at the music of type scales, hellboxes in traditional typesetting, and features the free font, Bricolage Grotesque.

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  • Drop #599 (2025-01-27): Contain Your Enthusiasm

    Today’s Drop starts a theme for the week — containers — starting with Linux namespaces. We break things up with a look at Apple’s design philosophy for rounded corners, and upcoming improvements in the Go programming language.

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  • Drop #598 (2025-01-24): Development Distractions

    Today’s Drop features Fixi.js—a compact hypermedia control framework beneficial for inline editing, search interfaces, and lazy loading with modern JavaScript features. There’s a new CSS attr() function in town, and we peek at how use it to work with all CSS properties for dynamic styles. And, the CSS Flexbox Playground let us to experiment with…

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  • Drop #597 (2025-01-23): Toss-Up Thursday

    Today’s diverse Drop showcases a proposed DNS-based authentication system allowing universal identities for digital logins, Tarjetas Rojas as tools to protect immigrants’ rights during encounters with authorities, and Sprinter, a distraction-free writing platform that integrates with Postbox.

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  • 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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