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Groundbreaking new tools for web typographers
Jen Simmons Designer Advocate at Mozilla
Ampersand 29 June 2018
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@jensimmons for twitter
noti.st/jensimmons for slides
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Variable Fonts
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Typecast.com
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HTML CSS
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You have to get into the browser.
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Open Type Features CSS Fonts level 3
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How can web designers discover what a font can do?
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Most of what’s needed is hidden.
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Large investment of time needed. You have to know you want it.
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What if it were easy…
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Variable Fonts Open Type Features
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Tools for playing, experimenting, & exploring while in the process of making your website.
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Font Editor CSS Grid Inspector Shape Path Editor
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Live Demo
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How do you get your hands on these tools today?
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Firefox 62, 5 Sept 2018Shape Path Editor, CSS Shapes, Variable Fonts
Out NowGrid Inspector
Firefox 63, 23 Oct 2018Font Editor, maybe
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What you website’s users have.What you can have.
Two versions in the future.
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What you website’s users have. Two versions in the future. F
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What you website’s users have. Two versions in the future.
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nightly.!.org
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stuff that’s on by default stuff behind a flag
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about:config
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stuff that’s on by default stuff behind a flag about:config
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bugzilla.!.com
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MDN web docs !
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Firefox Font Editor
MDN web docs !
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Intrinsic Web Design
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Whitespace Overlap Stages of Flexibility Changes how we use Viewport
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