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Jason Pamental
Personal blog · rwt.io/typography-tipsdesignweb
Jason Pamental writes RWT.io, a personal blog at rwt.io about design and web. Since 2019, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Reinventing Web Font Performance”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
Jason Pamental's blog covers web typography and fonts, including OpenType features such as ligatures, variable fonts, and self-hosting Google Fonts. HN commenters link his posts when discussing these topics.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Jason Pamental's personal website, including archived conference presentations, web typography tips, videos, podcast appearances, articles, and blog
Most-linked posts?
- Reinventing Web Font Performance3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-05-02
What Hacker News says?
I wondered if there was a reason behind the ligature between c and t across the article (e.g. is it easier to read for people with dyslexia). If like me you didn't know, apparently this is mostly stylistic, and comes from a historical practice that predates printing. There are other common ligatures such as CT, st, sp and th. https://rwt.io/typography-tips/opentype-part-2-leg-ligatures
Comment linking /typography-tips/opentype-part-2-leg-ligatures
on “A messy experiment that changed how I think about AI code analysis”Submitted Reinventing Web Font Performance as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI recently incorporated a variable font into a web app at $WORK (as in less then 6 months ago). And I remember seeing some issues like that Using google hosted variable fonts just didn’t seem to work in firefox. There was something about defining the range in the @font-face rule which google font omits (or does differently), or how variable fonts are consumed (font-weight vs font-variation-settings). My conclusion w…
Comment linking /typography-tips/getting-bent-current-state-italics-variable-font-support
on “Roboto but Make It Flex”Submitted Progressive Font Enrichment: reinventing web font performance as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe difference isn't as much as it used to be in terms of file-size optimization as woff2 is pretty much supported by all browsers and you don't have to serve anything else now. Except for CJK and Arabic fonts, which have to be split or their woff2 size would be a few MB - this is Progressive Font Enrichment [1]. However, once distinction is font hinting data [2]. Google Fonts serve different files based for Windows…
Comment linking /typography-tips/progressive-font-enrichment-reinventing-web-font-performance
on “Google Webfonts Helper – Self-Hosting Google Fonts”