An enthusiasm by
Richard Rutter
Latest Posts
New year, new typeface: switching to variable fonts
My website used to be set primarily in two very different typefaces: Ingeborg and Premiéra. This is story of how I switched to a fantastic single variable font which provided the same practical and stylistic benefits, only better.
My experience of using ChatGPT AI
I had fun playing around with ChatGPT, but the implications of such a powerful tool are serious, good and bad.
Avoiding groupthink: fine-tuning CSS specifications
Every now and then I’m asked to help out the CSS Working Group, especially when typography is involved. Invariably it’s also a chance to learn, not just about upcoming CSS, but also new methods of collaboration and group decision making.
How to typeset a date range properly
During these 10 days of mourning following the death of the Queen, wherever you look – on websites, billboards and shop windows – we are presented with a badly typeset date range: 1926 – 2022. Here’s how to do it correctly.
How to subset a variable font
Professional fonts can contain a lot characters you will never use, increasing file size uncessarily. These characters can be removed by subsetting a font. This post explains how to subset fonts from first principles on a Mac using fonttools.