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How to Favicon in 2021 (on CSS-Tricks)
Some excellent favicon tips from Chris Coyier, referencing Andrey Sitnik’s recent article of the same name.
I always appreciate someone looking into and re-evaluating the best practices of something that literally every website needs and has a complex set of requirements.
How I subset web fonts
On my personal website I currently use three web fonts from the Source Sans 3 group: regular, italic and semibold. I self-host my fonts because that’s a good practice. Additionally I use a variety of special characters to add some typographic life to the text.
When self-hosting it’s important from a performance perspective to minimise the weight of the font files your visitors must download. To achieve this I subset my fonts so as to include only the characters my pages use but no more. Here’s how I do it.
How to manage JavaScript dependencies
Managing JavaScript dependencies is about as much fun as a poke in the eye. However even if—like me—you prefer to keep things lean and dependency-free as far as possible, it’s something you’re going to need to do either in large work projects or as your personal side-project grows. In this post I tackle it head-on to reduce the problem to some simple concepts and practical techniques.
Definitive web font @font-face syntax
These days, whenever I’m about to use a web font on a new site I generally find myself running a google search for the latest “definitive @font-face syntax” that covers all modern browser/device needs.
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