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Far to little effort and attention has been devoted to creating beautiful text online. The web set text back centuries. In some ways it was never this bad excep

• accrual 1y ago
  This made me think of one person who cares for it - Matthew Butterick's Practical Typography appears to have spent quite a bit on bringing typeset-like text to his website. https://practicaltypography.com/ https://practicaltypography.com/
  • ashton314 1y ago
    MB over-engineered that book. Example: look at the paragraph that stars “But I don’t have visual skills” on this page: https://practicaltypography.com/why-does-typography-matter.html https://practicaltypography.com/why-does-typography-matter.h... Notice how the open quotation marks hang into the left margin. There’s been some recent work with CSS to make this automatic, but that’s newer than this book and support is spotty. MB made it happen with a (iirc) custom filter inside the Pollen setup he made for this book. Wild. And beautiful.
    • flobosg 1y ago
      See also the added soft hyphens within each word for hyphenation: https://practicaltypography.com/optional-hyphens.html#:~:text=For%20the%20hy%C2%ADphen%C2%ADation%20in%20this%20book https://practicaltypography.com/optional-hyphens.html#:~:tex...
      • OisinMoran 1y ago
        Ironically (or not) this section (on mobile anyway) seems to hyphenate way too much, with three lines in a row and two lines in a row ending in a hyphen (5/8 total lines in the paragraph).