---
title: "Chris’ Corner: Unusual Ideas"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/chris-corner-unusual-ideas-jujcoybek
source_url: https://blog.codepen.io/2026/07/20/chris-corner-unusual-ideas
type: article
source: "CodePen"
published: 2026-07-20T11:14:01.098Z
updated: 2026-07-20T11:14:18.233Z
tags: ["webdev", "javascript", "typography"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 4
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Chris’ Corner: Unusual Ideas

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## 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.

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