clagnut.com
Cofounder of Clearleft, author of Web Typography, rider of bicycles, listener to vinyl, father of two. Not necessarily in that order.
Blog: https://clagnut.com/
Book: https://book.webtypography.net/
Also: https://mastodon.social/@Richr
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Well Canada, you can definitely revoke his Canadian citizenship now, as he doesn't even believe it's a thing.
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Can me and Bella (š¶) come too, for the same reasons?
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yeah i'm being picky. although I do always think of fractional distillation (you can take the boy out of chemical engineering, etc.). That said the most recent example I saw was for a fractional UX designer which definitely did just mean part time.
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I agree there needs to be a more creative solution. The big problem is the AI companies - and those people who head them up. All the same LLM coās are being paid to serve up an amalgamation of other peoples IP and know how garnered without our consent there is an issue.
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The noise in my back garden a couple of years agoā¦ now I know who to blame š
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Richness, always, for me.
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Now you tell me, 131 individual downloads laterā¦
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Cheers to Interconnected! As a reader, thanks for keeping it going.
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Itās already called the North Sea dammit. Why canāt you northerners just play nicely and learn to share.
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Yes thatās what I was fishing for
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Well yes agreed, but this just a bit of social media. Fine typography it isnāt.
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But if you really want to be fancy, youāll want one of these bad boys
āø» the 3-em dash.
For all yourāø»dramatic pause needs.
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Canāt argue with that
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I see *en* dashes and just know that person knows how to write and is British
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I'm hoping you still have a current employer?
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(which I mean entirely respectfully)
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As always I'd be very interested to read your conclusions. In the meantime I'm going to write up a defence of utopia.fyi because I think your criticism of it might be misplaced.
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Did we go wrong though? Do you want the text on your website to be 16px? I mean for you as a reader?
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Yep one of a kind Stuart.
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Spaced en dash to offset parenthetical phrases (UK). Non-spaced (or hairspaced) em dash (US). Mileage varies, but typically the case.
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Not wrong ā just stylistically different. See what I did there?
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Yeah those things catch on my chain rings. And donāt be saying ābut bicycle clipsā.
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Iād say using em dashes (as opposed to en dashes) is a sign you might be American. But thatās evidently no guarantee.
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If you ever want some feedback from someone with strong protanomaly let me know.
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Thank you - knew I could rely on you lloydi š
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Simple. Donāt charge anything in your bedroom, except maybe a watch if you use it in clock mode. Thatās the rule for our household anyway.
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+1
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If I may be so bold: book.webtypography.net
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"pretty middling". That's generative AI for you.
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...Hyphenation properties have been in CSS spec for quite a while - so you got that - but they're only just appearing in browsers across the board now. And the baseline shift can be done in various ways with units like `cap`, although it's still tricky to get true baseline grids.
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(You'll know this all, but) it's interesting that you got most of your wistful wishes - everything OpenType for example...
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Milan Sanremo - how will Pog attack it? And Le Tour Femmes - 9 stages and some classic climbs at the back end - should be great
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True, but I'm heartened by the fact some were dropped.
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Post it and back date it, then you can say āsee I was right all alongā
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Haven't seen a long-tailed tit for years. Used to be very common on my Mum and Dad's silver birch, as did treecreepers and bullfinches. No such luck in our garden though. Must do the survey today though, before the bad weather returns next week.
#birding
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Cool, like huffduffer.com for text?
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Out of interest, is the dark mode on my site more contrasty for you than is comfortable? The ratio is about 11. clagnut.com/blog/2437/
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On the other hand, that's probably the last thing you want to be doing. I'll shut up now.
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Bloody hell that's awful. They probably just read the headline and not the post (which is a crap enough way of doing things). I'd reply and tell them to stop being lazy, think about the consequences of their laziness, and generally rip them a new one.