I like how Alan questions something nearly all of us take for granted: What if We Used Proportional Fonts for Code Blocks? And he kinda leaves it at that. What if. Lots of text is almost certainly easier to read in a non-monospace font, but is lots of code easier to read? And spaces/tabs are…

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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.

Chris’ Corner: Unusual Ideas