--- title: Chris’ Corner: Unusual Ideas | daily.dev description: A roundup of unusual web and code ideas, starting with the question of whether proportional (non-monospace) fonts could work for code blocks. Also covers Jason... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/chris-corner-unusual-ideas-jujcoybek twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Chris’ Corner: Unusual Ideas | daily.dev og:description: A roundup of unusual web and code ideas, starting with the question of whether proportional (non-monospace) fonts could work for code blocks. Also covers Jason... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/chris-corner-unusual-ideas-jujcoybek og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/jujcoYbEk.png og:image:alt: Chris’ Corner: Unusual Ideas og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Chris’ Corner: Unusual Ideas **[CodePen](https://daily.dev/sources/codepen)** · 2 min read · 4 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A roundup of unusual web and code ideas, starting with the question of whether proportional (non-monospace) fonts could work for code blocks. Also covers Jason Santa Maria's Citywide font winning Font of the Year, a JavaScript crossword where clues are JS eval expressions, HYPERBLAM (a project that lets you make music with HTML), and a tool for generating letterbox art with various fonts. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Chris’ Corner: Finding Type](https://daily.dev/posts/chris-corner-finding-type-0bp2egdv7) · CodePen · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [font-family recommendations — Chris Morgan](https://daily.dev/posts/font-family-recommendations-chris-morgan-vcupwq4so) · Lobsters · 0 upvotes · 1 comments --- Tags: [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev), [#javascript](https://daily.dev/tags/javascript), [#typography](https://daily.dev/tags/typography) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/chris-corner-unusual-ideas-jujcoybek) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Chris’ Corner: Unusual Ideas","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/chris-corner-unusual-ideas-jujcoybek","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/chris-corner-unusual-ideas-jujcoybek"},"datePublished":"2026-07-20T11:14:01.098Z","dateModified":"2026-07-20T11:14:18.233Z","description":"A roundup of unusual web and code ideas, starting with the question of whether proportional (non-monospace) fonts could work for code blocks. Also covers Jason...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/1ba52ec5d210988f93505e68d21a6c52?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/1ba52ec5d210988f93505e68d21a6c52?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"CodePen","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"CodePen","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/codepen","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/codepen"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/chris-corner-unusual-ideas-jujcoybek","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":4},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"webdev,javascript,typography","timeRequired":"PT2M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"CodePen","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/codepen"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Chris’ Corner: Unusual Ideas"}]} ```