@scott @letterror Same! It’s super useful for procedural generation especially.
Spinning around a circle using it can create tree branches, flower petal positions, ocean wave directions, or hues for a palette. https://jonikorpi.com/golden-ratio-hues/
Multiplying it with integers and taking just the fractional parts creates a brain-itching 1D pseudo-random sequence. The purple bars in my site header use it.
(Me, whispering: Maybe the reason PHP is everywhere and in everything is that ease of use, ease of modification and ease of deployment are actually good things and making easy, fun things safe is way, way more important to real world practices and uptake than trying to graft ease of use and fun onto guarantees of safety that computing has never been willing, much less able, to really guarantee anyway.)
I really like the new #mastodon ui! well done! ♥️
So in design there’s this concept called a Modular Scale. Basically simple procedural generation for font-sizes and other measures: ratio^x.
Using the golden ratio with it produces a nice set of sizes. It’s my favourite, but it grows too quickly: not enough small sizes.
Easy enough to add a few manually or use two scales side by side, but today I realised there’s a simpler fix: just use the square root of the golden ratio. Produces all the same sizes and more. https://www.modularscale.com/?1&em&1.2720196495
My website has a new look, the first major redesign since 2013. Kelsey Scherer, Scott Kellum (@scott) and Roel Nieskens (@pixelambacht) brought back some of the spirit of my original site, including the black, pale yellow, and white color scheme and the spinning starburst on the logo. It already feels like home to me.
Visit marksimonson.com today. And while you’re there, you can read about the new design in my Notebook: https://marksimonson.com/notebook/view/new-site-design
The foundry that shaped American type finally has a new home online.
The ATF® Collection revisits the classic typefaces of the American Type Founders Company, digitized and extended by Mark van Bronkhorst. His new interpretations offer more weights and widths, larger character sets, and the typographic features digital fonts make possible.
Adrian Kimball of Workhorse Type Foundry (@workhorse) designed the new site and developed it with Scott Kellum (@scott) TTF’s Design Director.
Visit atftype.com and explore the collection today.
The new Tesla roadster is… *checks roof* not a roadster.
(asking for a friend)
Other people have had more eloquent or concise things to say about this, but the title could have been the entire post:
https://aleemshaun.com/posts/taking-a-stand-is-too-costly-say-people-who-have-nothing-to-lose
Weekly Baseline update:
1. The `alpha()` CSS function became Baseline newly available.
2. `Object.groupBy()` is now widely available.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@webstandards_dev/117438760682711301
CSS typed arithmetic lands in Firefox!
Both FireFox and Safari have very bad bugs when you start to do anything somewhat advanced with CSS columns, like adding borders or managing the flow of block elements that aren’t text.
Safari has had some weirdness at times when calculating the block dimensions of elements in a grid, especially with `aspect-ratio` or particularly long, flowing content. Things could have improved now, as I only run into issues when I run into issues.
Gecko 🦊 and WebKit 🧭 should focus on a LayoutNG-like layout engine rewrite for interop instead of smaller one-off features.
Thanks to @janmaack, IvyMazarin now comes in two optical sizes.
IvyMazarin Big reimagines Robert Girard's Astrée in classic news proportions: narrower, sharper, and more tightly spaced, with an even larger x-height. Together, the two sizes carry the same cool, French take on Garamond from book covers to billboards.
Available in five weights with matching italics, plus Roman and Italic variable fonts.
Find IvyMazarin Big on ivyfoundry.com and typographer.com
#IvyFoundry #JanMaack #TypeDesign #FontRelease #TheTypeFounders
@thetypefounders just picked up one of their most important libraries yet with Process Type Foundry. https://hubspot.thetypefounders.com/whats-new-in-type-may-2027
If you missed it, TTF has been purchasing both font and brand IP, while supporting founders to continue making new type on a royalty basis. The current portfolio: https://thetypefounders.com/#foundries
"The people holding up the internet"
A good-looking but somewhat depressing exposé about the people holding up current digital infrastructure as a hobby.
All these AI companies are reinventing Google Now, but with extra steps.
*Except for the very rare occasion that you need a big overhead bag. I often pack a small under-seat bag in my roller bag that has my more valuable items so I can more easily check my roller bag at the gate and not worry about boarding.