Publishing Explorations

• June 30 2024
• 4 min. read

Animating variable fonts #

Don't be Afraid Of Large Font Sizes #

https://trail-of-thoughts.beehiiv.com/p/mastering-type-scale

https://typescale.com/

Creating Grid-Based Components #

Font Stacks: To variable font or not to variable font #

Leveraging Variable Font Features #

Leveraging Opentype font features #

Escaping our web metaphors #

Creating Magazine Layouts #

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2023/02/build-magazine-layout-css-grid-areas/

Media Queries To The Rescue #

What the web can do that print can't #

https://github.com/terwanerik/ScrollTrigger

https://scrollyvideo.js.org/

Anotations and marginalia #

• The social life of marginalia
• Bookmarking, annotations and sharing
  • openbookmarks.org
  • Hypothes.is
  • emphasis from the New York Times

Reading List #

• Frank Chimero
  • The Web's Grain
  • What The Web Wants
• Apps and publishing
  • Post artifact books and publishing
    • Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable
    • On Wikipedia, Cultural Patrimony, and Historiography
      • You own your content
        • Amazon zaps purchased copies of Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm from Kindles
      • Forever - Things never last forever on the web
      • The social life of marginalia
        • Bookmarking, annotations and sharing
          • openbookmarks.org
          • Hypothes.is
          • emphasis from the New York Times
  • Subcompact Publishing
  • What books will become
    • As we may read and Future Reading
  • Our new shrines
    • How apps are made
  • ebooks for all
  • Pull back
  • Unbinding and edges
    • A Turn of the Page for Newsweek
    • The digital - physical
      • Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Gentle Disturbances
      • The Umbrellas
  • Publishing Startups and the Great Fuzziness
  • Platforming books
    • Amazon: Kindle Ebooks Now Outsell All Paper Books Combined
  • Hack the cover
    • Has Kindle Killed the Book Cover?
    • Scan this book!
    • The End of Authorship
    • The book cover archive
    • Why aren’t there words in the cover of our books?
  • The shape of our future book
  • Bookcubes: souvenirs of Digital Reading
  • Subcompact Publishing
    • Clay Christensen on the news industry: “We didn’t quite understand…how quickly things fall off the cliff”
  • Subcompact roundup and The Daily
    • Tablets are waiting for their Movable Type
    • A new model for the musician-to-listener relationship
    • Sub-compact media: Rethinking the way we publish online
    • Get ready for the age of premium micropublishing
    • Trend alert: small internet publications
    • A Response to ‘Subcompact Publishing’
    • How To Publish a "Minimum Viable Magazine" Online
    • Some lessons from the demise of The Daily: Was it the platform, the content, the structure, or the business model?
• Technology

  • Progressive Web Appllications

    • Background

  • Application Shell Architecture

    • Instant Loading Web Apps with An Application Shell Architecture
    • Architect the App Shell
    • Instant Loading Web Apps With An Application Shell Architecture
    • Examples
      • iFixIt PWA
      • Service Workers in Production: Google I/O 2015 app

  • Service Workers

    • Is ServiceWorker Ready
    • Service Workers Sepcification at W3C

  • Examples and tutorials

    • Jake Archibald
      • Offline Cookbook
      • Simple Service Worker tutorial
    • Making A Service Worker: A Case Study
      • Smashing Magazine Article
      • Accompanying code
    • The Guardian
      • Building an offline page for Guardian.com
    • Jeremy Keith’s Example
      • My first Service Worker
    • Nicolás Bevacqua
      • ServiceWorker: Revolution of the Web Platform
    • Vendor Examples
      • Service Worker Samples (Google)
      • The Service Workers Cookbook (Mozilla)
        • Caching from a zip file (mozilla)

  • Tools

    • From Google
      • Workbox.js

  • Things that sit on top of service workers

    • Background Sync
    • Push Notifications
      • Specification at W3C
      • Current Implementations
        • Chrome
    • Background Sync with Service Workers
    • Periodic Background Sync
    • Update Broadcasts
• Other digital reading experiences
  • How Pelican Books is reimagining the cover in the digital age of eBooks
  • Pelican Books: an unrivalled online reading experience
• Books
  • The Shape of Design by Frank Chimero
    • Designing in the borderlands
  • Butterick’s Practical Typography
    • The publishing system that powers the book: Pollen
  • Hi (No longer active)
    • Background
  • Art Space Tokyo
    • Platforming Books
  • Pubpub

• CSS,
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