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  1. Mar 2024
    1. Typewriter Typefaces: Pica vs Elite, an explainer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwCD69jUPps

      Pica machines (12 characters per inch) will usually have a scale up to about 80-84.

      Elite machines (10 characters per inch) will have a scale up to 100.

      On Olympia machines, script only comes in Elite sizes (scale to 100 on platen).

  2. Jan 2023
    1. The use of colour and fonts are a good web accessibility example because the information is Percievable. The use of these colours and fonts emphasizes a the text and visually distinguishes information differences, which is “do” relating to colour contrast in online content.

  3. Nov 2022
    1. To check whether the music symbol ♫ is being displayed in a string (if it is not being displayed on some devices), you can try measuring the string width; if width == 0 then the symbol is absent.
    2. I want to check if the String I am about to display can be displayed by my custom font.
    3. I can't find a method to check if my Typeface can display a particular String though.
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    1. All platforms. Professional features. Beautiful UI. Totally free. FontBase is the font manager of the new generation, built by designers, for designers.

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    1. Great, I can use vw to scale text so it doesn't look puny on a desktop! Perfect... Oh. Huh, now the text is too small to read when viewed on a phone. Okay, well I can just use "max(x,y)" to make sure it doesn't get shrunk beyond a minimum size. Perfect... Oh. Hmm. Looks like "max" isn't supported properly by Chrome. Okay, well guess I'll just use "px" again.
  12. Jul 2020
    1. When grouping items into close proximity, you typically need to makesome changes, such as in the size or weight or placement of text or graphics.Body copy (the main bulk of reading text) does not have to be 12 point!

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  17. developer.mozilla.org developer.mozilla.org
    1. This page http://bfo.com/products/report/docs/tags/tags/link.html says that we can link font files in html using link attribute,

      I want to ask this to mdn community if it is possible, for the case when @font-face is not supported

  18. Feb 2017