This article describes how to generate and use compressed, anti-aliased font data, for use in a microcontroller application.

Yes, yes, I know. I spend more time writing about the behind-the-scenes of this website than anything else. I did say this was a personal project but I’m also aware I’m far too invested in tweaking and redesigning things, thinking and rethinking them without moderation. At the end of the day I’m having fun with...

The Book Cover Review is a great project by David Pearson; it’s a website with quick, 500-word reviews of book covers from guest designers, typographers, and writers. It all looks lovely! Fine typesetting, cute and slightly odd navigation, and gorgeous pictures to boot. There’s only one unforgiveable flaw with this...

Do you remember the avocado toast guy? I read Johann Hari’s Stolen Focus recently (you should read it, it’s great), and I learned that someone1 has come up with a name for this sort of modern reinterpretation of “let them eat cake”: cruel optimism. Cruel optimism, the way Hari interprets it2, boils down to the folly...