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• Post #4256707

  Another small thing I realized is being taken away by AI. Insignificant in the big picture, but still another AI killjoy. When my kids and I see handwritten text, we try to see if it was a font or true lettering. I'd point out if letters were exactly the same, or if perhaps alternates might be at play. If not, it was probably lettering. A fun little game to play with so many letters around us in the real world. But AI today seems to make its own "lettering" when gener...

• Post #4256706

  Another clever little novely font: "Jim's TrueType QR Code Font" turns text into a QR code. I noticed the QR code is broken in Safari when a space is used. This is because Safari treats the space character differently, seemingly ignoring the metrics or advance width, resulting in a shifted QR code (top line). I quickly hacked the font to use the § character as an alias for space, and then it works (bottom line) I wonder if this causes more problems in fonts, or if th...

• Post #3522370

  FENwright, a FEN-to-Chessboard font, is a very clever font that turns a Forsyth-Edwards Notation of chessboard pieces into a real chessboard! (Well, a digital one on your screen) I like that the font is just an 8 kilobyte WOFF2! Try it out here: https://philatype.github.io/fenwright/ Or read about how it was made: https://medium.com/@kosalsen/how-i-built-a-chess-rendering-engine-inside-an-opentype-font-27e4a4d520e7 #typography #chess

• Post #2161599

  Back from an early summer vacation, now back to computerin'. Saw plenty of tofu in Thailand!

• Post #1936440

  Spent the last few days doing some tidying-upping of the Wakamai Fondue codebase. Feels *good* to finally scratch some of those itches. Most of it was simply moving code around, de-bloating large functions, and some general mise-en-place for upcoming features. Also, OpenType feature detection is more robust and doesn't take down the entire "Layout Features" section anymore if it encounters something it doesn't understand! \o/ https://wakamaifondue.com/beta/...

• Post #1749271

  “Designers described spending time in client meetings justifying why a font costs money at all, let alone why using it on a website requires a different license than using it in print. Many said they’ve simply defaulted to Google Fonts in those situations because the explanation is too difficult.” ☝️ This is precisely what I've done, and what I've seen my webdev peers do *so* often! I'm curious to see how Fontstand will tackle this. Keeping an eye on this. https://fonts...

• Post #1231193

  Wakamai Fondue got featured on Jectives Typography News! @jectives basically gives a quick tour through what's new in the fondue, and of course goes through the latest font releases and news. If you're having a 1 hour, 7 minutes and 13 seconds long lunch, this video will fit RIGHT in! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJny8J4k5fM

• Post #1211455

  Very proud that a little quality-of-life improvement in the new Wakamai Fondue caught @mwichary's eye, and made it to the Unsung blog! https://unsung.aresluna.org/thoughtful-file-dropping-in-wakamaifondue/

• Post #1211453

  I keep thinking about a talk I saw by Ferdinand Ulrich, archivist of early digital fonts. Ulrich showed how institutions have huge archives, with reports and books and correspondence of people from the type world exploring how analog typography could be used on the computer. The birth of digital typography! You could read all the back-and-forth that went into establishing standards, exporing new ideas, creating prototypes. When the world wide web became common, much of this obviously moved to...

• Post #1211451

  🤫 I just fixed a super embarrassing oversight in how I used name table IDs to show the font's name. This little bug was there forever and so in-your-face that I became blind to it. Refresh your fondue and it'll report the PROPER name! https://wakamaifondue.com

• Post #1064870

  I am *deliriously* happy to announce that the new Wakamai Fondue is finally live!! https://www.wakamaifondue.com/ Thanks for making do with the shoddy old version, for trying out the beta, for your patience, and for your support! I will dive into all that's new and better very soon, but until then, I wrote a short introduction and why I am so happy this new version is finally out: https://pixelambacht.nl/2026/a-new-wakamai-fondue/ Happy fondueing!! 🫕 #webdev #css #fonts #typography

• Post #1022782

  Would you rather pay 💰💰💰💰💰 up front for a webfont and be done with it? Or pay 💰 monthly/annually? And would you like to receive the relevant CSS for your webfont, or would you like to figure it out yourself? Please fill in http://fontstand.com/survey and help make (web)font (licensing) better! #typography #webdev #CSS #fonts

• Post #911190

  🤫 Tiny colorful update to Wakamai Fondue 🤫 You can use a color font's built-in palettes in the main tester! https://wakamaifondue.com/beta/

• Post #503713

  🥳 Wakamai Fondue is looking for a good try-out font! Does your font have a nice set of OpenType features and variable axes that you want to show off in Wakamai Fondue? If so, let's strike a deal 🤝 (For free) You'll get a banner to send folks to your site, too! Gimlet has been serving us well for the past years on https://wakamaifondue.com/beta/ (thanks for your patience, @djrrb!) but for the new release we can use a fresh font.

• Post #307481

  This is complete goosebump-o-rama to me: LFT explains a classic C64 tunnel demo effect which is ultra-nerdy and super impressive. It looks great, it's very clever, it uses known tricks in a new, original way, and it's really well explained. Even mediocre coders like me could implement this after he provides the "aha!"-moment. If you ever owned a Commodore 64 and coded a little on it, you might enjoy this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Db-tmL8Tno #retrogam...