Just Dropping Some Type Links

Recently, when browsing the web, I have accumulated a lot of links about typesetting design, so I simply sorted it into a blog, which can be regarded as giving myself a chance to clear my browser tabs. What is this blog format? Simply put, it is to record the contents of various random tab pages that I have opened for a long time but have not closed.

• Times New Roman's web application: Times New Roman is a default font preinstalled on most computers and is safe and reliable in web pages without loading any web fonts. However, it is also the default font for all (or most) browsers when they are not declared, so sometimes using Times New Roman can unexpectedly make the website look like it's broken. If you like this style but need different fonts, Typewolf offers a good list of alternatives.

• Fun facts about Times: In a New York Times report on TypeThursday, the errors in font names are quite interesting.

• Most Popular Fonts of 2018: At the end of 2019, Typographica released their list of favorite fonts of 2018. Among them, Fern is particularly attractive to me.

• Typesetting in the browser: Una Kravets posted a video about typesetting in the browser on YouTube's Chrome Developer Channel. About 11 minutes later, she began introducing variable fonts, which was simply incredible. I know they can achieve all kinds of amazing features (even animations), but what I'm most excited about is its performance: Loading a font gives you a lot of design control.

• History of text size: Florens Verschelde's article "A Brief History of Text Size of Web Pages" explores how typical font sizes have gradually increased over the years.

• Controversy over font authorization: Alina Sava believes that there are problems with font authorization, which is mainly reflected in: pricing online fonts based on page views. It's hard to disagree with her for those who run high traffic/low profit sites.

• Fonts designed for coding: Matej Latin introduces five coded fonts with ligatures. You know, != can be turned into ≠, but it's just a visual change, not a character that actually changes to the used as I just did. Hyphen is a clever trick (another trick: use hyphen as an icon), but Matthew Butterick means "absolutely not": "The hyphen introduces ambiguity that did not exist before." It is worth noting that Operator Mono does not use this method. I remember hearing discussions about it, but now I can't find any relevant information. I know there is a way to add ligatures, and I'm a little surprised that this is actually legal.

• New Font Release: Trent posted some new fonts on his blog and shared his font shopping list.

• Font updates for CSS-Tricks website: A few weeks ago, you might have noticed some new fonts on the CSS-Tricks website. I just wanted to update the website because I was starting to get tired of system fonts (on Catalina systems they started to look bad in my opinion, and Andy Baio pointed out that this is a Chrome bug, but still). The logo of CSS-Tricks has long used Gotham Rounded, so I went back to Hoefler&Co. to select fonts to maintain a certain family style. The title uses Ringside, the monospace content uses Operator Mono, and the body uses Sentinel.

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