hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • 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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  • Drop #711 (2025-09-16): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop explores the significance of typography in video games, illustrating its evolution from functional necessity to a vital artistic element. It highlights how different games utilize fonts to enhance player immersion and identity, facing unique technical challenges and licensing issues. Meanwhile, the Go programming language has its own clear and…

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  • Drop #707 (2025-09-09): Typography Tuesday

    In today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop we have a typewriter-inspired mono font, a “back-to-school” font, and a nigh-forgotten line wrapping technique that (IMO) needs to have its own dedicated CSS attribute.

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  • Drop #703 (2025-09-02): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s Drop discusses some spiffy syntax highlighting hacks using OpenType features, shows how to de-Google your fonts, and intros the unexpected journey of “@” into our everyday lives.

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  • Drop #698 (2025-08-22): Friday Morning Grab Bag

    The Friday Drop presents a novelist’s tiny model improving creative writing through Fibonacci word intervals, MDN’s redesign enhancing usability for web developers, and Lucide, an open-source icon library featuring customizable, scalable icons for various projects.

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  • Drop #696 (2025-08-19): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop explores three retro mono fonts: Epson MX-80, DSEG, and IBM Courier. The Epson MX-80 was a pioneering dot matrix printer known for precision, capturing significant market share. DSEG emulates digital display fonts, including weather symbols, while IBM Courier offers a digitized version for coding. Each provides a nostalgic connection…

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  • Drop #694 (2025-08-14): Miles & Miles Of CSS Styles

    Today’s Drop showcases two CSS frameworks: Missing and Web Awesome. Missing emphasizes semantic HTML and customization through CSS properties, suited for smaller projects. Web Awesome, built on Shoelace, offers framework-agnostic components, Font Awesome support, and accessibility focus. A demo showcases their application in a CVE lookup app, highlighting their effectiveness.

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  • Drop #693 (2025-08-12): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop features 3 free fonts: Google Sans Code, Spline Sans Mono, and Danfo.

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  • Drop #689 (2025-08-05): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop looks at three topics: Flexflex, a JavaScript library that reshapes uppercase letters within defined boundaries; Fit, a variable font emphasizing geometric design and space usage; and the concept of overshoots, which ensures visual balance in letterforms.

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  • Drop #686 (2025-07-29): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop discusses the evolution and modern usage of hyphens and dashes. It highlights the complexity of hyphenation in web design, emphasizing the importance of language context for proper hyphenation. We also acquiesce to the use of en dashes over em dashes for phrase separation and introduce the dashing free font…

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