PlymouthPress – A Letterpress Image Font
An experimental image font made using the University of Plymouth’s unique letterpress workshop.
Grungy!
The font is intended for display purposes only, and not is suitable for body text.
Breaking the physical limits of fonts
This broke my brain.
The challenge: in the fewest resources possible, render meaningful text.
- How small can a font really go?
- How many bytes of memory would you need (to store it and run it?)
- How much code would it take to express it?
Lets see just how far we can take this!
Related links
Pixels vs. Ems: Users DO Change Font Size – Evan Minto – Medium
I have to admit, I didn’t realise that text reszing behaved differently for user preferences compared to page zoom. For that reason alone, I’m going to avoid setting font sizes in pixels.
If 2 to 3% (or more!) of your users are relying on a custom font size, you should know that so you can either support that user preference or make a conscious decision to not support it. Doing anything less is frankly irresponsible, especially considering that users with larger font sizes may be using those sizes to compensate for visual disabilities.
`font-display` for the Masses | CSS-Tricks
The font-display property is landing in browsers, and this is a great introduction to using it:
If you don’t know which option to use, then go with
swap. Not only does it provide an optimal balance between custom fonts and accessibility of content, it provides the same font loading behavior that we’ve relied on JavaScript for. If you have fonts on the page that you’d like to have load, but could ultimately do without, consider going withfallbackoroptionalwhen usingfont-display.
Until it’s more widely supported, you can continue to use a JavaScript solution, but even then you can feature detect first:
if ("fontDisplay" in document.body.style === false) {
/* JavaScript font loading logic goes here. */
}
Test page for -webkit-font-smoothing | Christoph Zillgens
This handy matrix shows the effect of different -webkit-font-smoothing setting on various text combinations (serif/san-serif light/dark, etc.).
Jake Archibald - Font-Face - Good vs Legal on Vimeo
Jake’s talk at DIBI earlier this year was absolutely fantastic. It features a rape reference, a story about pissing, and a Human Centipede metaphor.
It’s also very, very informative. Watch this.