I’ve been using this font for a while as my primary programming font and referenced it in one of my newsletters. Thought i’ll share this more prominently. This website now uses Commit Mono for code. I customized a few of the characters:
#2023
How to freeze some of the font characters in an OTF font to the alternative version. Taking the slashed zero character as an example with the font IBM Plex Mono. This blog post will explain how you can pick alternative characters with OTF fonts and build a version of the font that will permanently turn these alternative character variants on.
#2022
How to customize and build the font Recursive - a versatile font for programming
Here’s a good resource for high quality app icons.
#2021
Henry - a customizable elegant Hugo theme with a gorgeous reading experience and packed with features
Henry - a customizable elegant Jekyll theme with a gorgeous reading experience and packed with features
#2020
How to customize and build the font Iosevka on macOS - a versatile font for programming
#2018
This is such a fantastic post on how Apple sweats certain almost unnoticeable design details.
I picked up a whole bunch of nuggets reading this article:
…iPhone X rounded screen corners don’t use the classic rounding method where you move in a straight line and then arc using a single quadrant of a circle. Instead, the math is a bit more complicated. Commonly called a squircle, the slope starts sooner, but is more gentle.
I’m obsessed with typefaces and fonts 1.
My programming productivity is irrationally dependent on the font I pick for my IDE. I have spent unhealthy amounts of time experimenting and trying different fonts for programming.
I usually prefer a monospaced font and I’ve bounced between Inconsolata and Consolas in the past – both truly beautiful typefaces.
Recently though, a design director at Instacart shared this link on the laws of UX (a fantastic read btw).
#2012
Twitter’s got a new logo. It’s clean and simple. But here’s a more astute observation from underconsideration.com :
For the most part, all the news sources reporting on the revised bird have focused on its visual update, which I will get to soon, but the real story here is that Twitter has dropped its name from the logo. If you look at the opening image of this post, the change is quite drastic.