Jake
jakegiltsoff.bsky.social
Jake
@jakegiltsoff.bsky.social
I’m either thinking about fonts or soup
maketype.work
Do we just post the same thing in multiple places to pretty much mostly the same people now? Is that how this works?
December 21, 2024 at 12:04 AM
Scheduled maintenance at 5pm on Friday December 20th is unhinged, I’m here for it Figma.
December 21, 2024 at 12:03 AM
Hot dang this is amazing
I was reading @kizu.dev awesome CSS experiment with kizu.dev/fit-to-width/ and immediately saw a use-case for our headers at work. But we need to 1. fit to the block axis as well, and 2. ideally support line-clamp too. I took a stab at 1. and got it working. codepen.io/tryggvigy/pe...
Fit-to-Width Text: A New Technique
Registered custom properties are now available in all modern browsers. Using some pre-existing techniques based on them and complex container query length units, I solved a years-long problem of fitti...
kizu.dev
December 19, 2024 at 9:30 PM
Back writing about fonts — here I unearth some of the starting points for the designs used in this years ‘Pinterest Predicts’ (which does a real nice job with the type!)

maketypework.com/fonts-from-p...
Fonts from Pinterest Predicts 2025
Pinterest’s 2025 trend predictions make great use of a lot of fonts from Adobe Fonts. I did some sleuthing to work out which they are.
maketypework.com
December 11, 2024 at 4:52 PM
A few weeks back I went to a talk with Christina Tosi and Terry Crews and I cannot explain the amount of creativity it has unleashed in me. Holy moly those are two inspirational human beings.

Having milk and cookies at a book release is also a must from now on in my book.
December 11, 2024 at 3:35 AM
Where do folks go for art / poster / wall decor inspiration these days? I’m decorating my home office and want some cool graphic-designy bits. I feel like there used to be countless blogs with office inspo a while back but I cant anything like that anymore...
December 9, 2024 at 5:59 PM
I guess we’re over here now
December 4, 2024 at 12:04 AM