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  • Computer manual cover printed in blue, black, and white. The title 'GoScript Plus' is askew at one angle, and everything else is askew at a right angle to that.

    Recreating a 1990 Book Cover (in HTML + CSS)

    This weekend, I became briefly obsessed with the graphic design of the cover of a manual of a piece of software released in 1990. So I re-created it in HTML + CSS, as you do.

    Read more - about 3 minutes (567 words)

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    • 23 comments
    • posted 13 July, 2026
  • I don't want to withdraw any of our children from sec [sic] education lessons.

    Full image of Part of an email, written in Comic Sans, reading: Ages 10 โ€“ 11 Puberty for boys and girls revisited. Understanding conception to the birth of a baby. Becoming a teenager. All lessons are taught using correct terminology, child-friendly language and diagrams. / Content on relationships is compulsory for all children as well as work on reproduction and body parts, which is also covered as part of science lessons. However, parents can decide to withdraw their child from sex education lessons. Class teachers can provide more information if you wish to discuss this with your childโ€™s teacher. / If you would like to withdraw your child from sec education lessons, then please put this in writing by the end of this week 6th June.
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    Part of an email, written in Comic Sans, reading: Ages 10 โ€“ 11 Puberty for boys and girls revisited. Understanding conception to the birth of a baby. Becoming a teenager. All lessons are taught using correct terminology, child-friendly language and diagrams. / Content on relationships is compulsory for all children as well as work on reproduction and body parts, which is also covered as part of science lessons. However, parents can decide to withdraw their child from sex education lessons. Class teachers can provide more information if you wish to discuss this with your childโ€™s teacher. / If you would like to withdraw your child from sec education lessons, then please put this in writing by the end of this week 6th June.

    However they're spelled, they're a great idea, and I'm grateful to live in a part of the world where their existence isn't the target of religious politics.

    But if I can withdraw consent to receiving emails about sex education in Comic Sans then that'd be great, thanks. ๐Ÿ˜…

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 2 June, 2025
  • Image representing post: Scunthorpe Sans

    Scunthorpe Sans

    The vole.wtf folks have made a font which uses ligatures to self-censor any naughty words you type.

    Read more (171 words)

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    • posted 20 May, 2020
  • Image representing post: Text Rendering Hates You

    Text Rendering Hates You

    Alexis Beingessner takes a delightful dive into the variety of issues that face developers who have to implement text rendering. Turns out this is, and might always remain, an unsolved issue.

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    • posted 9 October, 2019
  • Image representing post: Reply to: A modern font loading strategy with the vanilla JS FontFaceSet.load() method

    Reply to: A modern font loading strategy with the vanilla JS FontFaceSet.load() method

    Chris Ferdinandi's suggestion of using FontFaceSet.load() to prevent FOIT seems overkill. What's wrong with font-display: swap;?

    Read more - about 4 minutes (760 words)

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 22 June, 2019
  • Brand New Roman font sampler

    This Colorful New Font Is Made Entirely of Brand Logos



    If you're completely, irrevocably head-over-heels for brands, we finally have just the typeface for you.

    Creatives at digital agency Hello Velocity have developed Brand New Roman, a font comprised of 76 corporate brand logos. The Idiocracy-style project is partly parody, but you can actually download the font and use itโ€”and artists have already been playing around โ€ฆ

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 5 September, 2018
  • 9800 Free Fonts, fonts for free, font finder, download free fonts, free typograp...

    Bookmarked via del.icio.us: 9800 Free Fonts, fonts for free, font finder, download free fonts, free typograp....

    Read more - about 1 minutes (17 words)

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    • posted 26 May, 2006

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