If we want CSS to use a more traditional type setting style instead of the line box, we’ll want a single line of text to have no space either above or below it — but allow for multi-line elements to maintain their entireline-heightvalue. It is possible to teach CSS about leading w...
Letters set in all caps are harder to read, since they create less distinct letter shapes. When there are no ascenders and descenders the outer shape of a word is always a long rectangle. The menu in Half-Life: Alyx VR gives you typographically the same shivers down your spine like the...
The act of reading is beautifully complex, and yet, once we know how, it’s a kind of muscle memory. We rarely think about it. But because reading is so intrinsic to every other thing about typography, it’s the best place for us to begin. We’ve all made something we wanted someon...
Pangeais more practical and contains an impressive number of features. Among other things, you can actually close and open the aperture of letterforms or pull and shorten the ascenders and descenders. The disadvantages of variable fonts I’m obviously a big proponent of variable fonts. Nevertheless...
” Essentially, the researchers are saying that our current conventions for hyperlinks — underlined text — should be changed systemically. The reason why underlined hyperlinks reduces legibility is that certain characters that go below the base line — characters with descenders extending below the ...