Holy shit! Get well soon, videos can wait!
November 12, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Holy shit! Get well soon, videos can wait!
Because every font can have a different thing happening when you turn on a stylistic set. For this "Helvetica" it's these weird small caps, for another font in the stack it might be extra fat serifs, or umlauts that look like cat ears. You never know!
November 7, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Because every font can have a different thing happening when you turn on a stylistic set. For this "Helvetica" it's these weird small caps, for another font in the stack it might be extra fat serifs, or umlauts that look like cat ears. You never know!
Ha yeah! The Windows Arial has this weird `ss02` set (if you drop it in the Wakamai Fondue *beta* it will tell you the name of the feature, by the way!)
This is a good example of why `font-variant` was introduced, so you can tell the browser your intent, not what low level feature should be on.
This is a good example of why `font-variant` was introduced, so you can tell the browser your intent, not what low level feature should be on.
November 7, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Ha yeah! The Windows Arial has this weird `ss02` set (if you drop it in the Wakamai Fondue *beta* it will tell you the name of the feature, by the way!)
This is a good example of why `font-variant` was introduced, so you can tell the browser your intent, not what low level feature should be on.
This is a good example of why `font-variant` was introduced, so you can tell the browser your intent, not what low level feature should be on.
They're busy humans, perhaps it's still on the @fontsinuse.com backlog?
November 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
They're busy humans, perhaps it's still on the @fontsinuse.com backlog?
Oh that would be fun! There's a lot of tiny details that folks might not know about, and I love to talk about :-) It will be released later this month, but I haven't picked a date yet. Mind if I keep you in the loop?
November 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Oh that would be fun! There's a lot of tiny details that folks might not know about, and I love to talk about :-) It will be released later this month, but I haven't picked a date yet. Mind if I keep you in the loop?
Oh interesting, I haven't played with `content-visibility` yet!
I created FontJit because I really need 107% full control, and do stuff like kicking off animations or transitions. The use case is very much sites in the "font world", not so much "regular sites", so that might be a bit too esoteric.
I created FontJit because I really need 107% full control, and do stuff like kicking off animations or transitions. The use case is very much sites in the "font world", not so much "regular sites", so that might be a bit too esoteric.
November 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Oh interesting, I haven't played with `content-visibility` yet!
I created FontJit because I really need 107% full control, and do stuff like kicking off animations or transitions. The use case is very much sites in the "font world", not so much "regular sites", so that might be a bit too esoteric.
I created FontJit because I really need 107% full control, and do stuff like kicking off animations or transitions. The use case is very much sites in the "font world", not so much "regular sites", so that might be a bit too esoteric.
Oh cool, looking forward to coming across it! Thanks again :-)
With the Fondue coming out of beta *finally* this month, I toyed with the idea of making quick videos, dropping fonts in the fondue and showing different aspects and features and the CSS. But you do it a lot better than I could!
With the Fondue coming out of beta *finally* this month, I toyed with the idea of making quick videos, dropping fonts in the fondue and showing different aspects and features and the CSS. But you do it a lot better than I could!
November 3, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Oh cool, looking forward to coming across it! Thanks again :-)
With the Fondue coming out of beta *finally* this month, I toyed with the idea of making quick videos, dropping fonts in the fondue and showing different aspects and features and the CSS. But you do it a lot better than I could!
With the Fondue coming out of beta *finally* this month, I toyed with the idea of making quick videos, dropping fonts in the fondue and showing different aspects and features and the CSS. But you do it a lot better than I could!
Hey hey! Thanks so much for the shoutout! With that many glyph and features, the fondue takes a while to get bubbling, it seems! Superprobably an issue in my code, I'll take a look. Now back to the stream!
November 3, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Hey hey! Thanks so much for the shoutout! With that many glyph and features, the fondue takes a while to get bubbling, it seems! Superprobably an issue in my code, I'll take a look. Now back to the stream!
Oh thanks for sharing! Lots of folks I know from the Twitter days but somehow lost track of (as far as I can tell with all the Halloween names ;-))
October 25, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Oh thanks for sharing! Lots of folks I know from the Twitter days but somehow lost track of (as far as I can tell with all the Halloween names ;-))
Well, that's a good idea anyway!
October 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Well, that's a good idea anyway!
Agreed on block/swap. In fact for icon fonts I actually prefer to have a FOIT -- icons should stay invisible until the font has loaded. This can be done with pure HTML/CSS, and with JavaScript if you want to have even more control over how the icons pop into visibility!
October 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Agreed on block/swap. In fact for icon fonts I actually prefer to have a FOIT -- icons should stay invisible until the font has loaded. This can be done with pure HTML/CSS, and with JavaScript if you want to have even more control over how the icons pop into visibility!
Does any modern icon library still do that?
Icons mapped to characters (that don't match the icon's design!) is bad practice anyway. Either map them to Unicode's PUA, or use the Unicode value if it exists.
Icons mapped to characters (that don't match the icon's design!) is bad practice anyway. Either map them to Unicode's PUA, or use the Unicode value if it exists.
October 23, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Does any modern icon library still do that?
Icons mapped to characters (that don't match the icon's design!) is bad practice anyway. Either map them to Unicode's PUA, or use the Unicode value if it exists.
Icons mapped to characters (that don't match the icon's design!) is bad practice anyway. Either map them to Unicode's PUA, or use the Unicode value if it exists.
Oh I missed it due to Dutch dinner time. Is there somewhere I can watch or read what you discussed?
October 21, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Oh I missed it due to Dutch dinner time. Is there somewhere I can watch or read what you discussed?
Oh boy I'd love to ride there, that looks absolutely awesome. Closest I can get to that kind of view is Germany, which is *not* the Rocky mountains. In the Netherlands, the height difference with that other road in the background would be considered "pretty mountainous".
October 21, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Oh boy I'd love to ride there, that looks absolutely awesome. Closest I can get to that kind of view is Germany, which is *not* the Rocky mountains. In the Netherlands, the height difference with that other road in the background would be considered "pretty mountainous".