Find a Unicode Character via Quick Sketch

By Chris Coyier on

There are 155,063 Unicode characters. A lot of that is stuff from other languages, but there is still a large amount of randomly useful characters like arrows and symbols and whatnot. There are so many that even if you find good lists, it’s hard to search and sort. I like Benjamin Milde’s idea, shapecatcher, that […]

Kern Type

By Chris Coyier on

Kerning type is moving individual letters such that the space between them feels right. It’s not something you have to be terribly concerned about with web type generally, but it’s still a good design skill to have for working on type that is quite large or long-lasting like a physical sign, logo, giant headline, etc. […]

TypeScript without Build Tools

By Chris Coyier on

You can build your own TypeScript build process, and you might want to if you need true type checking and compatibility with a wider ecosystem of tools. But lots of tools, including now Node itself, just accept TypeScript as if it were JavaScript.

TODS

By Chris Coyier on

TODS: “an open source typography and opentype default stylesheet” from Richard Rutter. I like the idea of slightly-opinionated stylesheets that do a bunch of things you might forget to do, or just as likely, don’t know you can do to begin with. There are loads of goodies in here including a slew of utility classes for […]

Font with Built-In Syntax Highlighting

By Chris Coyier on

Syntax highlighting code on the web happens like coloring any other text on the web happens. You wrap the bits of text you want colored uniquely in some element, probably a meaningless <span>, then select that in CSS and apply a color. Ideally, the span-wrapping happens server-side so client-side JavaScript isn’t tied up doing something […]

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