A bug in Chromium and Safari makes support of proper superscript and subscript characters problematic. See exactly why, and what you might be able to do about it.
Introducing a new open source web typography project. The idea is to have a default CSS file to set sensible typographic defaults for use on prose text, making particular use of the font features provided by OpenType.
When did we start using the ch unit to specify the maximum length for a line of text in CSS? To do so makes assumptions that don’t necessarily hold up, and there are more appropriate units to use. Also: was it my fault?
Recently we realised Clearleft didn’t have a written browser support policy. Rather than fixating on specific browsers, we needed to a policy that considered capabilities and outcomes for users. It turns out there’s an initiative for that.
It’s twenty four years to the day since A List Part published John Allsopp’s seminal treatise A Dao of Web Design. But all this time on, we’re still making the same mistakes.