#128 - CO2 emissions on the web

Hey everyone,

Welcome to issue #128, your weekly roundup of what’s happening in design, code and typography.

Thought provoking #

CO2 emissions on the web. Danny van Kooten addresses an important topic and offers some ideas to keep your website from bloating the web.

Redesign: Gridniking. Frank Chimero continues redesigning his website in the open. This time he tackles organising content with a grid based layout.

Old CSS, new CSS. Take some time on this one. The history of CSS through the eyes of Evelyn Woods, who started building websites in the 90s, before CSS existed.

Design and Code #

Sticky Table of Contents with Scrolling Active States, Chris Coyier shares the code behind a pretty cool UX pattern.

Remaking my curriculum vitæ with modern web technologies. Alex explains why he moved from a SASS solution to Hugo to manage his CV.

Could browsers fix more accessibility problems automatically? Hidde de Vries has some interesting thoughts on the idea, including a few browser features you may not know about.

Using CSS, HTML, and maybe a little logic to display images with a consistent surface area by Piper Haywood and Area-based image sizing with CSS by Nick Sherman propose an interesting solution for dealing with images with a variety of different aspect ratios.

Typography #

“We also grew into this over time, from learning and doing graphic design, slowly shifting to type design, being fascinated with fonts being these very basic and functional things that still allow for so much personal and stylistic choice.” Fabian Harb and Johannes Breyer in Dinamo: The No-boundary Foundry

Designer of Inter, Rasmus Anderson shares his glyph design process in a Twitter thread.

Troy Leinster, Type Designer at Hoefler & Co: On the Importance of Continuing Education from The SuperHi Team.

Something to watch #

Config 2020 – A one-day conference where Figma users come together to learn from each other. Watch the full keynote which includes guest speakers Dylan Field, Craig Mod, Devon Zuegel, May-Li Khoe, Scott Hansen “Tycho”.