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2026 2

  1. Ian Harry Rutter 1942 – 2026
  2. What’s new in web typography?

2025 11

  1. Helpful rather than hurtful to the interests of mankind
  2. My requests for Interop 2026
  3. Critical questions for design leaders working with AI
  4. I have Unfinished Business
  5. Opening up ‘Unoffice hours’
  6. In defence of fluid typography
  7. Another uncalled-for blog post about the ethics of using AI
  8. The web on mobile (a response)
  9. Beware the faux bold (and how to fix it)
  10. What I learned by creating a dark mode toggle
  11. Highlighting code syntax in Keynote

2024 9

  1. On the road to recovery
  2. The problem with superscripts and subscripts
  3. Introducing TODS – a typographic and OpenType default stylesheet
  4. Use of ch unit considered inappropriate (in certain circumstances)
  5. A modern approach to browser support
  6. Dao Day 2024 – a regression in the making
  7. Design does not mean innovation
  8. Retrofitting fluid typography
  9. Responsive typography and its role in design systems

2023 6

  1. Pagination widows, or, Why I’m embarrassed about my ebook
  2. Preventing too-short final lines of text blocks
  3. An end to typographic widows on the web
  4. Font optical sizing bug in Safari 16
  5. New year, new typeface: switching to variable fonts
  6. My experience of using ChatGPT AI

2022 5

  1. Avoiding groupthink: fine-tuning CSS specifications
  2. How to typeset a date range properly
  3. How to subset a variable font
  4. Applying pace layers to career paths
  5. Top Tunes 2021

2021 2

  1. One year on and what next for remote working?
  2. Top Tunes 2020

2020 4

  1. Shining a light on Neon
  2. The best compostable Nespresso capsules
  3. Top Tunes 2017
  4. Top Tunes 2019

2019 15

  1. JOGLE Day 12 – Liskeard to Land’s End
  2. JOGLE Day 11 – Tiverton to Liskeard
  3. JOGLE Day 10 – Severn Bridge to Tiverton
  4. JOGLE Day 09 – Shrewsbury to the Severn Bridge
  5. JOGLE Day 08 – Preston to Shrewsbury
  6. JOGLE Day 07 – Carlisle to Preston
  7. JOGLE Day 06 – Kilmarnock to Carlisle
  8. JOGLE Day 05 – Inveraray to Kilmarnock
  9. JOGLE Day 04 – Fort William to Inveraray
  10. JOGLE Day 03 – Dingwall to Fort William
  11. JOGLE Day 02 – Ousdale to Dingwall
  12. JOGLE Day 01 – John o’Groats to Ousdale via Dunnet Head
  13. John O’Groats to Land’s End – JOGLE Day 0
  14. All you need to know about hyphenation in CSS
  15. Top Tunes 2018

2018 2

  1. Upcoming changes to the CSS you need for variable fonts
  2. How to use variable fonts in the real world

2017 1

  1. Getting started with variable fonts

2016 4

  1. The importance of putting your champions on a pedestal
  2. Choco Leibniz
  3. Chrome just got darker
  4. Use rems for global sizing, use ems for local sizing

2015 3

  1. Conference diversity from an organiser’s perspective
  2. Back my Web Typography book
  3. Brief thoughts about web typography in 2015

2014 8

  1. List of pangrams
  2. The Scourge of Helvetica Neue Light
  3. Scattered notes from Dots
  4. Soft hyphen bug in Webkit
  5. The Big Dog Cometh
  6. Web Typography is now open source
  7. In conversation with Brighton station about CCTV
  8. A new year, a new design

2012 2

  1. UK Museums on the Web 2012
  2. Something’s missing around here

2011 13

  1. Heaven Devoid of Stars – a tale of cross-browser kerning
  2. ClagTunes episode 4
  3. The trouble with font classifications
  4. jQuery for UX Designers
  5. Hyphenation arrives in Firefox and Safari
  6. Google +1. Recommend­ations, really?
  7. The Ampersand Story
  8. ClagTunes episode 3
  9. It’s time to stop teaching web skills like it’s still 1999
  10. Top Tunes 2010
  11. One heavenly breakfast
  12. On becoming a Dad
  13. ClagTunes episode 2

2010 9

  1. ClagTunes episode 1
  2. TypeCon 2010
  3. Fontdeck is go!
  4. I ran a marathon
  5. Shortbread finger
  6. Against the Digital Economy Bill
  7. I found a Biscuit at the back of the cupboard
  8. Why designers should and shouldn’t code
  9. Other people’s thoughts on the iPad

2009 18

  1. Ten design principles of Dieter Rams
  2. UX London 2010 is go!
  3. Top Fifty Albums of the Decade
  4. Leading type designers love webfonts
  5. The postcode lookup pattern
  6. Immediate impressions on the new iTunes 9
  7. Talking Type and Design at South by Southwest
  8. The dConstruct Time Capsule
  9. How to stop images breaking rounded corners in Safari
  10. Whatever happened to font-stretch?
  11. Five minute chocolate mug cake
  12. But why, some say, the moon?
  13. Skillswap went typographic
  14. Web Typography panel at SxSW
  15. Microformats for business owners
  16. A free font success story
  17. Just how bad is the iPhone camera?
  18. Font-weight is still broken in all but one browser

2008 25

  1. Double F
  2. Say “No” to Starbucks on St James’s Street
  3. On activity- and user-centred design
  4. Avoiding headphone tangleness
  5. 18 months of beagle ownership
  6. Facing up to Fonts this Friday
  7. Guy Garvey is a god
  8. A new design
  9. The future of web font embedding
  10. Silverback has launched!
  11. Cavendish wins Stage 5 of the Tour de France
  12. Scripting Enabled conference/hack day
  13. The Virgin Media experience
  14. Win a ticket to dConstruct
  15. Moving CSS typography forward
  16. Deviating from process
  17. Talking type in Ljubljana
  18. Mental Models workshop with Indi Young
  19. Taking on the Music Industry
  20. Captioning Sucks
  21. Wireframing in a Web 2.0 World
  22. See me speak
  23. Thoughts on browser version targeting
  24. Moving the Font Matrix forward
  25. Top Tunes 2007

2007 37

  1. Microsoft buys Multimap
  2. Mac apps Xmas bonanza
  3. An ambition realised
  4. CSS and Ajax Workshops
  5. Font embedding survey
  6. Portfolio Clinic
  7. WebKit now supports CSS @font-face rules
  8. Swiss design, minimalism, typography and grids
  9. Chocks away
  10. I’ll show you mine, too
  11. South by Southwest panel picker
  12. Le Tour de France en Angleterre
  13. Fonts licensed for web apps
  14. Web fonts on the horizon
  15. Hackday London
  16. HTML Entity Character Lookup
  17. @media 2007
  18. dConstruct 2007
  19. Great Escape 2007 day three
  20. Great Escape 2007 day two
  21. Great Escape 2007 day one
  22. Top ten tips for web typography
  23. Baselines and vertical rhythm
  24. A List Apart web design survey
  25. Links from Future of Web Design
  26. Death of a civil nation?
  27. April Fools
  28. Machine tags and ISBNs
  29. Death threats ≠funny | free speech
  30. SxSW 2007 wrap up
  31. Web Typography Sucks
  32. Talking type at SxSW
  33. Centering text on the longest line
  34. Bulletproof Ajax
  35. Top Tunes 2006
  36. iPhone arrives
  37. 2006 – Where did it go?

2006 43

  1. Problems with font rendering on Macs
  2. Colour blind questionnaire
  3. Support Joe Clark in his quest
  4. I go to Ikea so you don’t have to
  5. Internationalisation test
  6. Arial 12pt
  7. It’s an honour to be nominated… once more
  8. J.Spaceman Acoustic Mainlines
  9. One Day in History
  10. Career path for web designers
  11. Professional body for web designers
  12. Underworld typography
  13. Speaking on typography at SxSW 2007?
  14. On fonts for the Web
  15. d.Construct Thursday socials
  16. Clearleft is hiring
  17. d.Construct schedule and podcast
  18. Making sense of Radiohead
  19. Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance
  20. Lateral thinking
  21. Line breaks in tooltips
  22. At @media again
  23. Ajax and accessibility
  24. Great Escape Festival day three
  25. Great Escape Festival day two
  26. Great Escape Festival day one
  27. Shrook is now free and coComment has promise
  28. Tagging blogs – a Reboot of sorts
  29. Zooming content
  30. CSS Naked Day
  31. SxSW wrap up
  32. SxSW is just over the horizon
  33. Blog Design Solutions
  34. Google buys Measure Map
  35. Variable fixed width layout
  36. Tunnock’s Caramel
  37. Displaying titles for Flickr Badges
  38. Top Tunes 2005
  39. Four Things
  40. Ego charting
  41. Glaucoma and photography
  42. A parallel cavalcade of geek life
  43. Ljubljana at Christmas

2005 67

  1. Lying on Last.fm
  2. Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web
  3. Flash Player and Adobe Reader in a tree…
  4. Firefox 1.5 is go
  5. 24 ways (to impress your friends)
  6. Ajax training workshop
  7. When I’m 94
  8. Website analysis tools
  9. Post d.Constructivism
  10. Colour blindness on the Web
  11. John Peel one year on
  12. I blame Tonga
  13. More on multi-column layouts
  14. Super Furry Kraft
  15. A new beginning
  16. The Aeron Experience
  17. Quiet around here, isn’t it?
  18. What’s with the new iTunes skin?
  19. Easy alpha transparent pngs
  20. A proud member
  21. Joe Clark in London
  22. CSS & Accessibility
  23. A couple of accessibility studies
  24. Two minutes silence
  25. Gruber’s footnotes
  26. Normality returns
  27. London bomb blasts
  28. St Paul’s
  29. Taking on the Tour
  30. That. Which.
  31. Speaking browsers
  32. I made some science
  33. Unicode Font Info
  34. The state of accessibility in the real world
  35. What’s in a word?
  36. At @media
  37. Seventy Penguins
  38. Unbelievable
  39. Thurston Moore on mix tapes and mp3s
  40. AppleCare compensation
  41. A musical baton
  42. Fruit shortcake
  43. BBC Backstage
  44. JavaScript-enhanced image replacement
  45. VE Day and the US D-Day Museum
  46. Free Furries
  47. Vote
  48. Internet Explorer 7 will have fixes
  49. Safari 1.3
  50. And they’re off
  51. Where’s Durstan?
  52. Browser stickies
  53. SxSW stream of conciousness
  54. SxSW beckons
  55. Top Tunes 2004
  56. Bourbon cream
  57. Pompeii Interactive sale is on!
  58. Google’s Smart Tags
  59. HTML is better than XHTML
  60. Internet Explorer 7 is coming
  61. Secure wifi
  62. Relief at last
  63. Multimap is hiring
  64. Bad Pants
  65. Geotagged blogs on Multimap
  66. AppleCareless
  67. New goodies from Apple

2004 107

  1. Mince pies
  2. When Christmas came early
  3. This blog is backwards
  4. Fig Roll
  5. CSS podGuide
  6. Google Print and Google Suggest
  7. Photo fades and then some
  8. Descaling FrancisFrancis! espresso makers
  9. Welcome to the world
  10. Pam Ayres on a morphine drip
  11. Bug Report, Design Engaged and PowerPoint
  12. iSight mounts and iMac G5s
  13. Apple Store Mania
  14. Gravatars in PHP
  15. Gravatars
  16. The Brakes to support Hanson?
  17. Blog Block
  18. Photo fades
  19. Resetting default padding and margin
  20. John Peel 1939–2004
  21. A View on the Ocean
  22. Plazes
  23. BBC News Online Wikiproxy
  24. Naughty use case scenarios
  25. DevEdge dead?
  26. Link toolbar
  27. Far Heath Studios
  28. JPG Magazine
  29. Continuum links
  30. Web Essentials blog
  31. It’s an honour to be nominated… again
  32. Why I haven’t bought anything from iTunes
  33. The Degree Confluence Project
  34. Browse Happ(il)y
  35. XMLHttpRequest
  36. Geekend 2
  37. Put your blog on the map
  38. Mo & Rob’s Drive Inne
  39. Jamie Oliver is Cool
  40. What’s the difference between a blog and a news site?
  41. Dunwich Dynamo
  42. Real life savings through Web standards
  43. Adding permanence to broadcast
  44. DOM Scripting Resources
  45. Headings defining document structure
  46. I’m back
  47. The devil’s in the minutia
  48. Back in a week
  49. Multimap redesign
  50. Tiger
  51. Gmail invites
  52. iTunes Music Store UK is empty
  53. Dynamically underlining accesskeys
  54. Footie mad
  55. British Sea Power
  56. Collaborative Design
  57. Findability
  58. Enabling .htaccess in OS X
  59. Fear the Pie!
  60. Ten questions for Andy
  61. How to size text using ems
  62. Fresh mackerel rolls
  63. Ginger snap
  64. clear:none bug in Safari
  65. Strictly necessary?
  66. Web Essentials 04
  67. Mozilla DOM inspector
  68. Wireless beer
  69. Welcome
  70. Calculated discovery
  71. Recent mark-up chatter
  72. Doh! iBook
  73. OS X newbie alert
  74. New MySQL.com
  75. Ecstatic
  76. Pop-ups of the street
  77. CSS from the BBC
  78. Hyphens a soft problem
  79. Just get on with the hard stuff
  80. The Movement
  81. Geekend photos added
  82. Labelling in context
  83. Accessify
  84. Whither blogmarks?
  85. City of Sound
  86. Geekend
  87. Rubhub is your friends
  88. Users don’t care where they are
  89. Skinny images in Safari
  90. Spruce Ringsting
  91. Visual Google
  92. Oh the irony…
  93. Top Tunes 2003
  94. Web Standards Awards
  95. Nazdarovya
  96. CSS crib sheets
  97. Chocolate digestive
  98. Discovering DOM scripting
  99. Playing with Delta
  100. Sony reliability or not
  101. Googlerank feedback loop
  102. And the nominations are…
  103. Structure, presentation & behaviour
  104. Accessible contents menu?
  105. XFN
  106. On Lomography
  107. Happy New Year

2003 128

  1. Clichéd cynicism
  2. It’s a girl!
  3. British Blog awards 2003
  4. Too much information
  5. More on fixed widths
  6. Images in liquid columns
  7. Fixed width
  8. The new typography
  9. Interface widgets
  10. Blogmarks
  11. Reasons for broadband
  12. Full-text searching
  13. Accents in alerts
  14. Colour tools
  15. Multiple versions of IE
  16. Perfect client
  17. Site Indexes
  18. CSS Vault
  19. High tackle
  20. Sitemaps
  21. MGB Roadster
  22. Browser quirk enlightenment
  23. TBL versus Eolas
  24. Judging books by their covers
  25. On decentralized blacklists
  26. A List Apart returns
  27. Blacklisting comment spam
  28. iTunes/Win
  29. ISSN refused
  30. Lipstick cherry
  31. International Standard Serial Number
  32. National Organic Week
  33. Form layout
  34. More Gardening
  35. In the Box
  36. Now playing
  37. All I’m offering is the truth
  38. PowerNote
  39. Fastest rollovers
  40. Fixing this, sliding that
  41. Video conferencing
  42. MX 2004 seminar
  43. Johnny Cash dies
  44. Eliminating inline styles
  45. Lists and more lists
  46. Mark-up tactics
  47. Dasher
  48. Crease
  49. Accessible interfaces
  50. Pushing CSS
  51. Vancouver calling
  52. On Information Design
  53. Designer logic
  54. Transparently brilliant
  55. Look no hands
  56. Colour palettes
  57. Beers are on me!
  58. Reserved comment names
  59. Pride
  60. Googlewhacking
  61. Pixelsurgeon cured
  62. I’ve been away
  63. Back to business
  64. Back soon
  65. Hobnob
  66. Viral mystery
  67. Off side topic
  68. Month in the life (and death) of a browser
  69. More accesskeys
  70. Honour to be nominated
  71. Sunday in the sticks
  72. Digital Venezia
  73. Tabs revisited
  74. CSS Tutorials
  75. Skills swapped
  76. Buy buy
  77. Give ’em what they want
  78. Vote clagnut!
  79. Accesskey standards
  80. Rich Tea
  81. Spectacular calendar
  82. New (to me) music
  83. Comment pushing
  84. Swiss cheese?
  85. The user-centred aesthetic
  86. Garibaldi
  87. Catnappers
  88. Pink wafer sandwich
  89. Preview and pain
  90. West Pier on fire!
  91. CSS tabs
  92. No more referrers
  93. Textilisation
  94. Hospital food
  95. Normal service resumes
  96. Salam
  97. Crunch
  98. A sad loss
  99. Frame pain
  100. Remix results
  101. No relegation
  102. Colours
  103. Democracy strikes
  104. Italian
  105. Trousers
  106. A matter of style
  107. Meke-a thees my hume-a pege-a
  108. Custard cream
  109. The good, the bad & the funny
  110. History repeating
  111. Phonetic diacritics
  112. Proposed change to RSS feed
  113. Biscuit time
  114. Now it’s the other pier
  115. ’Ow queer
  116. Citations and quotes
  117. No mention of mark-up
  118. Checky
  119. Lists, lists & more lists
  120. Reformulation results
  121. Reformulation launched
  122. Praise Indeed
  123. Only on the Internet…
  124. Snow?
  125. New browsers
  126. Rewrite
  127. Upgrade some more!
  128. Happy New Year

2002 141

  1. Upgrade update!
  2. Upgrade now!
  3. Cuppa
  4. Good stuff
  5. Mozilla updated
  6. West Pier
  7. Yahoogle II
  8. Fifty tunes
  9. Don’t break the back button!
  10. Brown is the new grey
  11. Clutching at straws
  12. Sniff snort sneeze
  13. A wicked googly
  14. Handy pointers
  15. X-Ray
  16. In accord
  17. Autumn
  18. UKbloggers
  19. Out of Season
  20. Pop off
  21. The trial
  22. High court hang-ups II
  23. High court hang-ups
  24. Yahoogle!
  25. Spicy swatches
  26. Curry in a hurry
  27. Free reader
  28. Apostrophe s
  29. Googled me
  30. IE6 bug
  31. Rosegarden at Linux Expo UK
  32. Down & out
  33. Face up
  34. Observation
  35. Linkorama
  36. Compo results
  37. Liquid lunch
  38. New news
  39. Hopper ringer
  40. Get geeked
  41. Hidden magnetron
  42. Naughty but nice
  43. Holding hands
  44. New wiring
  45. Flash bang wallop
  46. Softly softly
  47. On your marks…
  48. About time
  49. Chip off the old block
  50. Why oh why?
  51. Squabble
  52. Shorter URLs
  53. Mozilla 1.1
  54. Top blog tips
  55. We’re hiring!
  56. Mozilla is mine
  57. Boozing tips
  58. Clagzilla
  59. Easier searching
  60. When good type goes bad
  61. A grave loss
  62. When good lists go bad
  63. Thoughtful dialogue
  64. Transparently flawed
  65. Silly mid off
  66. Simplicity itself
  67. Anchorman
  68. Girls, girls, girls
  69. Wevver bruvver
  70. Ate
  71. Fontastic
  72. Search ahoy!
  73. Boxed in
  74. Sensitive scumbag
  75. aRSSe!
  76. Bent over a barrel
  77. Search soon
  78. XMaLarkey
  79. Hot?
  80. bright blog
  81. Col de Joux Plane
  82. old skool
  83. Toons
  84. Dissatisfied
  85. ’Ello, ’ello, ’ello
  86. blogger code
  87. Win win win
  88. transparent
  89. Return
  90. Tune in
  91. Laterz
  92. Fatigue
  93. In a pickle
  94. Stand back
  95. Users define usable
  96. Back into type
  97. rusty rusting
  98. Bloody BT
  99. The end to war
  100. Bring on Brazil!
  101. Real on virtual
  102. No Butt, don’t shoot !
  103. TT
  104. Get It
  105. corned beef
  106. textualization
  107. small
  108. Dang
  109. mx out
  110. buy this book
  111. grinning
  112. dmx blogger
  113. spam and stuff
  114. three-oh
  115. Seven
  116. Right click
  117. CSS
  118. SVG
  119. Upgrades
  120. Tube
  121. Sad
  122. Minimalism
  123. Hired
  124. 126
  125. Home time
  126. @media
  127. Amalgamation
  128. Squad
  129. Dropped stitch
  130. Note to self
  131. Comeuppance is due
  132. Anyone for a Ruby?
  133. No such thing as a free breakfast
  134. Dream on
  135. Corbijn
  136. Mozilla 1.0
  137. Carousing with celebs
  138. Minimum width
  139. ITV Digital for auction
  140. It begins
  141. Curvacious