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13th January 2019For the last 6 or so months, I've been engaged in a number of activities including (but not limited to): Scratching my headStaring out of the windowLaying in bed and staring at the ceilingScreaming into a pillowRolling around on the floor sweating feverishly while muttering archaic and forbidden incantationsCoincidentally, I've been spending this same time period trying to solve a

18th October 2011In a previous article, I addressed the many advantages of using a web font (in place of images) to render icons into your UI design. In the same article I mentioned a frustrating deficit of high quality, free icon web fonts available for embedding and conceded my own failure at building one with Fontstruct (less a font design tool than a mental health risk). After continued experi

The HTML (ARIA and ARIA-associated attributes displayed in green) <form action=""> <fieldset> <legend>Login form</legend> <div> <label for="username">Your username</label> <input type="text" id="username" aria-describedby="username-tip" required /> <div role="tooltip" id="username-tip">Your username is your email address</div> </div> <div> <label for="password">Your password</label> <input type="t

30th March 2013What if I told you there was a way to radically alter your web pages without using images, javascript, proprietary CSS3 or any extra markup? What if I told you you didn't have to be an experienced typographer, you could do it for little more than 6Kb and that it would work in Internet Explorer 7? For free? Welcome to Font Hacking, my primer on extracting, deconstructing, altering an