Additional Syntax for @font-face
During Chrome Dev Summit I learned an interesting trick when working with variable fonts. Rather than use the default values for the font properties you need to specify the boundaries (upper and...
Loading multiple styles of the same font using Font Face Observer
For most of my web work, I use Font Face Observer to handle checking that the fonts have loaded. Using the following @fontface declarations: @font-face { font-family: 'Roboto'; src:...
Default font stack
Using the default fonts for the operating system saves bandwidth (we don't have to download the font since it's already installed in the system) and improves performance (fewer assets to download) but...
Dealing with significant white space in HTML
For most of the web's content whitespace is not significant. Browsers will collapse multiple spaces or tabs into a single space and will only insert line breaks when they encounter the <br />...
Animation and effects with CSS
I've been become more comfortable playing with CSS features that are beyond just making sure that typography works well in all form factors. Rotate On Hover # One of the things that I like is the...
Center vertically and horizontally
I was working on typesetting poems when I thought what it would take to center a piece of content both vertically and horizontally? For image and smaller blocks of text like poems, I choose to work...
Generating footnotes on a web page
As I was working on my last post about paged media I discovered one thing we can do to make footnotes for the web a little more user-friendly. Paged Media has a way to hide the text of the footnote...
Revisiting paged media stylesheets for the web
One thing that the web is sorely lacking is the ability to create print-ready content from our web pages. CSS provides specifications for paged media but the support in browsers leaves a lot to be...
Link text for printed web pages
One of the most frustrating things that happen when I print a web page is that all links appear as underlined text without any reference to what the links point out to. One way to solve the problem...
Multicolumn Layouts Revisited
It's been possible to work in multiple columns of text without having to resort to hacks to make columns work in multiple browsers and in multiple form factors. According to caniuse.com developers...