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Pixelambacht

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Front-end antics and typographic mischievousness

Frontend / CSS / browsersGraphics

’15’20’25
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26 from 20 Nov 2013 to 25 Sep 2026
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now and then (4 in the last year)
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personal blog
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2026 4

  1. Ten Lines Of Code That Changed My World
  2. Archiving an absolutely ribbeting short story
  3. What do you get when you put every character that exists on a single page?
  4. A new Wakamai Fondue

2022 1

  1. Boiled down: fixing the variable font inheritance problem

2021 2

  1. Optical size, the hidden superpower of variable fonts
  2. Wakamai Fondue on the command line: never write font CSS again!

2020 3

  1. Dev diary #003: Sprechen sie Wakamai Fondue?
  2. Dev diary #002: Scaffolding and figuring outing
  3. Dev diary #001: Hello world, Wakamai Fondue?

2019 3

  1. Boiling eggs and fixing the variable font inheritance problem
  2. You've gotten old, bulletproof @font-face syntax. Time to retire!
  3. Creating Fontself Catapult, a color font publishing platform

2018 1

  1. Extra, extra! Read all about it! (Once our webfonts have finished downloading)

2017 2

  1. Silly hover effects and the future of web typography
  2. How Github became the web's largest font piracy site (and how to fix it)

2016 4

  1. Saving the internet 2000 terabytes a day: fixing Font Awesome's fonts
  2. Blackout: breaking browsers with a font
  3. ComicSans.conf, or: fonts have settings too
  4. Building Bixa Color, a color font for the web

2015 1

  1. Sans Bullshit Sans: leveraging the synergy of ligatures

2014 3

  1. Compyx: creating a multicolor 8‑bit font for browsers
  2. Colorful typography on the web: get ready for multicolor fonts
  3. Super semantic multicolor font icons in pure CSS

2013 2

  1. CSS3 C64, a Commodore 64 demo in your browser
  2. How to be absolutely, positively, double definitely sure your web font renders