hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #650 (2025-05-06): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop discusses typography’s impact on design, emphasizing advanced OpenType features like variable fonts, alternates, and swashes to enhance visual appeal. It highlights the importance of choosing bold sans-serif fonts for thumbnails to attract viewers and encourages exploring curated minimalistic web designs at Dead Simple Sites for inspiration on clean aesthetics.

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  • Drop #646 (2025-04-30): Web-Slinging Wednesday

    The midweek Drop covers advanced CSS features, including the CSS text-box-trim for precise vertical text spacing control, Kate Morley’s 12-bit rainbow palette for improved data visualization using the LCH color space, and the CSS Shapes Module which enables non-rectangular content flow, enhancing layout and design flexibility.

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  • Drop #645 (2025-04-29): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s edition of the Drop explores typographic infrastructure, highlighting IKEA’s journey from traditional fonts to modern self-hosting solutions. It also presents FontDiffuser, a framework that enhances font generation through innovative diffusion techniques. The featured free font, Costaline, balances contemporary elegance with classic elements, offering diverse styles and multilingual support.

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  • Drop #643 (2025-04-22): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of The Drop highlights new developments and challenges in font design. Key points include Microsoft’s Kermit typeface aimed at aiding children with dyslexia, the issues related to thin fonts causing accessibility problems, and the declining status of the em dash due to AI overuse in writing, threatening typographic culture.

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  • Drop #639 (2025-04-15): [Tardy] Typography Tuesday

    Today’s [tardy — due to DOGE] Typography Tuesday covers a study questioning I-beam designs using typeface cross-sections, the manicule’s historical significance as a symbol, and a modern sans serif font, Ronzino, contrasting with Arial in design and functionality.

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  • Drop #634 (2025-04-08): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop discusses the evolution of smart quotes and accent marks in typography, highlighting their historical context and modern usage. It also introduces the Style Manual, which provides guidance on British and American English punctuation, and features the DT Hebrinks typeface, a free serif font. Overall, it emphasizes the importance of…

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  • Drop #632 (2025-04-01): [Tardy] Typography Tuesday

    Today’s [tardy] typographic edition of the Drop discusses the significance of typography in the series Severance. It also features two silly, but fun 🍜 fonts. The Drops are mysterious and important.

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  • Drop #630 (2025-03-28): Fool Around To Find Out Friday

    Today’s Drop discusses recent tools and experiments in document preparation and bookmarking. John Maxwell shares insights on Typst as a LaTeX alternative, highlighting its ease of use and integration with Pandoc. Additionally, Shaarli is introduced as a self-hosted bookmarking tool, while Shellfirm aids terminal command safety through verification prompts.

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  • Drop #627 (2025-03-25): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop covers Atkinson Hyperlegible Next, introduces. Hyperglot, and showcases the Kyiv Type Foundry.

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  • Drop #623 (2025-03-18): Typography^WResistance Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the drop tells the stories of three typefaces: VTC Garibaldi, VTC Ruby, and VTC Tatsuro. Each is designed to inspire hope and resistance.

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