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From Modular Scales to Variable Fonts | Type Thursday

Scott Kellum, developer and designer, talks about using modular scales when setting type and why he is excited about the arrival of variable fonts for the web.

Scott Kellum is a front-end developer and the designer behind modularscales.com — a guide to using modular scales to set type on the web. In this interview we discuss how to think about proportion and end on why Scott thinks the future of type lies in variable fonts. …

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User Interfaces for Variable Fonts | A List Apart

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The tools we design with have a unique effect on the way we work, constraining and empowering us while we explore, examine and create. Variable fonts give us a new, wide open typographic space with which to work. Instead of prescribing value to individual UI elements in a vacuum, we should take a hybrid and calculated approach to variable font interfaces. How do we structure our design tools to adapt to the new advantages variable fonts provide us with?

Källa: User Interfaces for Variable Fonts

A framework for creating a predictable & harmonious spacing system for faster design-dev handoff

Enabling design & development teams to use spacing deliberately for improved readability and consistency in product.

Källa: A framework for creating a predictable & harmonious spacing system for faster design-dev handoff

The League of Moveable Type’s Top 10 Most Magical and Magnificent Microsites

It’s about time we give attention to an incredible (and often overlooked) phenomena in the typography and design world.

For those that aren’t familiar, microsites are basically digital adaptations of type specimens. For those that aren’t familiar with type specimens (don’t be embarrassed, we’re all learning here), type specs have been used to advertise and promote typeface designs since the early days of metal type. Microsites exist for the same purpose, carry a similar spirit, yet are fairly unknown to those outside of the really nerdy type-isphere. Which sucks.

Läs och utforska minisiterna här: The League of Moveable Type’s Top 10 Most Magical and Magnificent Microsites