What’s the Difference Between Straight and Curly Quotation Marks?
Over the years, one became "smart" and the other one "dumb".
wordsmarts.com/straight-curly-…
Books about typography at PG
gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?q…
Straight and curly quotation marks may look largely similar. But when it comes to deciding between the two, there’s a “smart” choice and a “dumb” choice to be made.jennifer (Word Smarts)
Thin Fonts Are a Usability Nightmare—And Finally, Designers Are Waking Up
webdesignerdepot.com/thin-font…
#UIDesign #webdesign #a11y #fonts #usability #accessibility #typography
Thin fonts may look sleek, but they’re a usability nightmare—hard to read, inaccessible, and especially frustrating on mobile.Noah Davis (Web Designer Depot)
Our In-Process blog is out! Featuring:
- Update on NVDA 2025.1
- Planning for CSUN
- What's on the web
- Reading paragraphs in Braille
And bonus history of the Pilcrow! (Ok I was interested)
nvaccess.org/post/in-process-2…
#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Blog #News #Newsletter #Typography #CSUNATC
Welcome to another In-Process, whether you are reading on the web, or via email. This time around we cover: NVDA 2025.1 Planning for CSUN What’s on the web Reading paragraphs in Braille NVDA 2025.1…NV Access
New blog post: “Short Lines, Bad Breaks, and CSS”
blog.kizu.dev/short-lines-bad-…
In today’s CSSWG meeting, there was one issue about the new value of `text-wrap-style` property — `avoid-orphans`.
There was agreement in the meeting that we should look for a better name, and open a separate issue about this, which I did, as well as opened another one — about the `orphans` and `widows` properties.
In today’s CSSWG meeting, there was one issue about the new value of `text-wrap-style` property — `avoid-orphans`.blog.kizu.dev
The Basics of Legibility
A Short Guide for Non-Typographers
Learn how to create accessible text in your web content.Whitney Lewis (Pope Tech Blog)
This article is not scientific in any way. I try to learn about accessibility for some time now and can just put my aggregated knowledge and my thoughts in here. So please feel free to criticise and correct me where I’m wrong.Phillip Roth
text-wrap:balance has landed on the latest Firefox 🎉
This allows multiple lines of text to have their lines broken in such a way that each line is roughly the same width, often used to make headlines more readable and visually appealing.
bugzilla.mozilla.org/1731541
developer.chrome.com/blog/css-…
#CSS #Typography
A classic typography technique of hand-authoring line breaks for balanced text blocks, comes to CSS.Chrome for Developers
Typefaces are the foundation of accessible visual reading experiences, so choosing a performant typeface that enhances legibility and readability for people with poor vision, learning disabilities, aphasia, dyslexia or low adult literacy is of paramo…Gareth Ford Williams (www.linkedin.com)
OK, friends. I could use your boosting powers on this one AND I could use your eyes for 5–10 min if you'd like to be helpful.
I've done the launch on the updated, multi-lingual & multi-device version of my font-spacing research test site. Please have a visit to letter.fit and take a look at a sample or two.
You don't have to be in #fonts #type or #typography — this is just "look at this sample, highlight things that stick out"; the value is in wide samples & lots of variety!
We believe in working in the open. This blog is for designers across government to share their projects, ideas and concepts, or just to think out loud.designnotes.blog.gov.uk
If you want your text to be read, set it at a sufficient size! But what is a good font size, and how can you apply it in your web or app design? This article and video has answerers for you with some practical examples focused on body text in respons…Oliver (Pimp my Type)
Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and developer from Stuttgart, Germany. Besides design practice he teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel.Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer
Reading is what we do, and readability refers to qualities of a text that make reading easier. This includes content decisions, or format decisions, which help a reader to easily engage with and comprehend the message intended by the author.Google Fonts
Something new I learned today: Atkinson Hyperlegible Font is a font designed with low vision readers in mind.
Can be downloaded off of Google Fonts or directly from the Braille Institute: brailleinstitute.org/freefont
[ #FediArt #MastoArt #typography ]
A new typeface – greater legibility and readability for low vision readers Atkinson Hyperlegible font is named after Braille Institute founder, J. Robert Atkinson.Braille Institute
Ok, I’m going to try my first thread about #typography on Mastodon. Wish me luck!
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Today’s thread is a story about some #lettering research I did, which led me to discover a strange mystery :
Typefaces are the foundation of accessible visual reading experiences, so choosing a performant typeface that enhances legibility and readability for people with poor vision, learning disabilities…Gareth Ford Williams (The Readability Group)
Type Together :: High quality fonts and custom type designwww.type-together.com
