when animating variable font weights remember to include tighter... optical sizing to maintain the width of the textshow more

Seems like a good opportunity to share a trick... I used on the React Aria website to make headings scale to fit the viewport on mobile, even with SSR. I used fontkit, a library I wrote 10 years ago to parse fonts and layout glyphs, to measure the width of the heading at build time in the "em" unit. width = font.layout('DateRangePicker').advanceWidth / font.unitsPerEm This is a size independent measurement using the font's internal metrics. When multiplied by any font size, you get the pixel width of the text. To calculate the font size, set this as a CSS variable and divide the target width (100vw minus padding). Clamp to make sure it doesn't get too big or small. font-size: clamp(35px, (100vw - 32px) / var(--text-width), 55px) And tada! You have perfectly scaling text no matter the viewport size. 🎉show more

There have been many versions of the Zelda logo... over the years, with varying proportions. So here's a proof of concept for a variable font with weight and width controls. My working name is "Hylia Serif DX."show more

woke up last night to write down this idea... for a fluid navigation bar thing that uses variable font width and weight to signify selection state. it feels very fun to play with and squish aroundshow more

“When you start to treat the light weights like... heavy weights, the heavy weights will go up a lot easier” - Ed Coanshow more

One of my first obsessions with AI was portals.... I remember when MJ v5 was released, I generated around 5000 different portals, dreaming of one day animating them. Today, a 'simple' text-to-video prompt can do this... How amazing is this? PROMPT 👇show more

#Throwback to the good old days when #TaylorSwift explained... Omitted Variable Bias to an audience of non-economists 🙃 #Swifties #EconSwiftiesshow more

Zooming in to check the weight of the weights

#ur_ärt 1 million views of Idol Cover🎉 I remember... animating U-san for the first time when this cover song was uploaded😌show more

To move the position of the bird, I mapped... the bottom padding of an Auto Layout frame to the 'yPosition' variable.show more

Zooming in to check the weight of the weights 👀😉

there are two ways to make inline icons match... text: guess a px value or use the font’s cap height `1cap` gives you the second one. it sizes the icon from the height of capital letters, so it keeps matching when font-size changes.show more

#MeghanMarkle says she “hasn’t scraped the surface” of her... experiences in the Royal Family. Remember when Gayle King and Janina Gavankar said Meghan has documents and text to prove everything?????? What is about to drop???? #MeghanIsTheProblem #MeghanMarkIeisaLiar #FOMeghanshow more

the codex team at OpenAI Developers Can we reduce... the min width of the codex window? when I try to place 2 windows side by side, they never align.show more

We’re back in the Grump’s space! Animating once again... for the 10 Minute Power Hour🥹🦖🦕 We had so much fun going through some of the old callbacks to previous episodes to include in the brand new introduction. Can you find all the props we used? Game Grumpsshow more

Finally got variable width working in procedural rivers using... a world space post process so they feel less roadlike. I'm thinking it would be good to add wider = slower and thinner = faster, and maybe increase the depth of the carving in thinner sections? iPad Pro (2020).show more

When the GC asks if the talking stage responded... to the triple textshow more

remember when James Gandolfini once threatened to beat the... fuck out of Harvey Weinsteinshow more