Richard Rutter
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Richard Rutter
@clagnut.com
Cofounder of Clearleft, author of Web Typography, rider of bicycles, listener to vinyl, father of two, husband. Not necessarily in that order.

Blog: https://clagnut.com/
Book: https://book.webtypography.net/
Also: https://mastodon.social/@Richr
We've got a last minute speaker! Join us for a fascinating provocation on a "Government Human Service" with @beckymiller33.bsky.social.

medium.com/ghs-governme...
Introducing GHS
Government Human Service
medium.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Keep meaning to do a ‘TODS Basic’ to remove most of the helper utilities and just leave the (p)resets.
November 2, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Thanks Dave!
November 2, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Happy birthday chap! Keep designing until you don’t want to any more!
October 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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I'd recommend @tink.uk's talk from FFConf last year: ffconf.org/talks/2024_l... (sorry for the qusai FFConf promotion, but the talk is very very good)
AI & Accessibility: The Good, the Bad... - ffconf.org
Léonie Watson explores the realities of AI and accessibility, separating fact from hype at FFConf.
ffconf.org
October 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
No it’s not yet. I’ll check Gumroad - thanks for letting me know
October 27, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I really want to reply ‘me too’ but I won’t stoop to that kind of bawdy ‘humour’.
October 15, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Oh Jake, you must be having a hard time of it. I can imagine you using the 'big picture' pun in one of your most excellent talks :-)
October 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Fair enough
October 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Is Alex James a Blur primitive?
October 1, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Sadly the 'gobful of ire' was aimed at Emma Watson's stand for trans people, rather than Rowling's hateful rhetoric.
September 30, 2025 at 11:06 AM
And that’s my problem with it. That and this and previous governments’ handling and understanding of anything vaguely ‘digital’.
September 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Nice! But does it support `break-after:avoid` yet?
September 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
If in doubt ask for a cortado and you might get close. Better still you might even end up with a cortado!
September 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Reposted by Richard Rutter
You should come to @londonwebstandards.org #sotb2026
Early bird tickets are £70
And if you can’t afford it apply for a diversity ticket

2026.stateofthebrowser.com
SotB14 | State of the Browser
Welcome to the fourteenth edition of State of the Browser, a yearly one-day, single-track conference with widely-varying talks about the modern web, accessibility, web standards, and more, organised b...
2026.stateofthebrowser.com
September 11, 2025 at 9:06 PM
damn we've got to sort out that rubbish OG image.
September 11, 2025 at 10:49 AM