--- title: Best Typography posts of 2024 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted Typography posts of 2024, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/tags/typography/best-of/2024 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/tags/typography/best-of/2024 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best Typography posts of 2024 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted Typography posts of 2024, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of Typography — 2024 1. 1 [](/posts/the-only-8-fonts-you-will-ever-need-p6ulefstm "The Only 8 Fonts You Will Ever Need") Article UX Planet · 2y The Only 8 Fonts You Will Ever Need Typography has evolved significantly, offering an extensive array of typefaces. Despite the abundance, eight fonts have stood out for their unique characteristics: Garamond, Bodoni, Baskerville, Times New Roman, Century Expanded, Futura, Helvetica, and Inter. Each font brings its own historical significance and design ethos, from classics like Garamond and Baskerville that improve readability, to modern fonts like Inter designed for digital interfaces. These fonts are essential tools for any designer, adaptable to various projects from traditional print to contemporary digital design. 481 21 2. 2 [](/posts/7-practical-tips-for-cheating-at-design-rsan9ustv "7 Practical Tips for Cheating at Design") Article Community Picks · 2y 7 Practical Tips for Cheating at Design Improve your designs with practical tips that don't require a background in graphic design. Use color and weight to create hierarchy, avoid using grey text on colored backgrounds, offset shadows, use fewer borders, avoid blowing up small icons, add accent borders for visual flair, and consider hierarchy when designing buttons. 216 11 3. 3 [](/posts/understanding-the-why-behind-some-basic-ui-design-practices-6holjwemv "Understanding the ‘Why’ behind some basic UI design practices") Article Bootcamp · 2y Understanding the ‘Why’ behind some basic UI design practices Understanding fundamental UI design practices helps in creating visually appealing and user-friendly interfaces. Key practices like maintaining consistent padding, using multiples of 8 or 4 for spacing, avoiding decimals, keeping line height to auto, and using a 24px frame for icons enhance design consistency and functionality. Ghost buttons serve as secondary call-to-action elements enhancing visual hierarchy. 200 5 4. 4 [](/posts/types-of-fonts-and-when-to-use-them-b2smnoyls "Types of fonts and when to use them") Article LogRocket · 2y Types of fonts and when to use them Understanding typography is crucial for creating clean, high-quality websites. Typography affects visual hierarchy, readability, and user experience. Different font types like serif, sans-serif, script, and display serve various purposes and convey different moods. Key considerations include accessibility, font contrast, and pairing techniques. Tools like Fontshare, Fontjoy, and WhatFont can help in selecting and combining fonts effectively. 100 4 5. 5 [](/posts/improve-your-reset-with-these-modern-css-additions-5bsf8fkpt "Improve your reset with these modern CSS additions") Video Kevin Powell · 2y Improve your reset with these modern CSS additions Discover three modern CSS additions to enhance your CSS reset. Learn about the text-wrap balance to improve heading appearance, setting max width on text elements to ensure readability, and utilizing container queries for better responsive design. These tips aim to make your web typography and layout more visually appealing and easier to manage. 89 3 6. 6 [](/posts/tailwindcss-ignore-typography-nfiodltsl "TailwindCSS Ignore Typography") Article Community Picks · 2y TailwindCSS Ignore Typography TailwindCSS has a typography plugin that can stylize content using the \`.prose\` class, but it also provides a way to override this styling by applying the \`.not-prose\` class. More information about this feature can be found in the official PR of TailwindCSS Typography. 70 7 7. 7 [](/posts/fontsource-ivkyeyxkf "Fontsource") Article Community Picks · 2y Fontsource Fontsource provides a collection of loaded fonts for web design, including examples such as Roboto, Open Sans, Poppins, and more. 69 2 8. 8 [](/posts/please-don-t-use-viewport-units-for-font-sizes-hm0iqvgd5 "Please, don’t use viewport units for font sizes") Video Kevin Powell · 2y Please, don’t use viewport units for font sizes Using viewport units for font sizes might seem like a good idea for responsive text, but it can lead to significant issues such as excessively small or large text and failures in accessibility criteria. Instead, using the CSS clamp function offers a more effective solution, allowing text to grow and shrink appropriately within defined limits. Tools like utopia.fyi can help set appropriate font sizes and scales for flexible, responsive typography. 50 1 9. 9 [](/posts/css-typography-properties-you-might-not-know-about-vjzwaptzb "CSS Typography Properties You Might Not Know About") Article Web Developer · 2y CSS Typography Properties You Might Not Know About CSS provides powerful typography tools to improve web design. Discover properties like \`font-variant\` for font styles, \`initial-letter\` for stylizing the first letter of paragraphs, and \`font-variant-numeric\` for formatting numbers. These can enhance the visual appeal and readability of your sites. 40 1 10. 10 [](/posts/the-monospace-web-x0jspk4wn "The Monospace Web") Article Lobsters · 2y The Monospace Web Explore a minimalist design concept using monospace fonts for web development. The author experiments with a responsive monospace grid for aligning text and drawing diagrams, leveraging Markdown and CSS, along with a bit of JavaScript. The design is reminiscent of terminals and offers various elements such as lists, tables, and media objects, all fitting into the monospace aesthetic. 40 2 11. 11 [](/posts/some-on-scroll-text-highlight-animations-laf05dlou "Some On-Scroll Text Highlight Animations") Article Codrops · 2y Some On-Scroll Text Highlight Animations Explore some on-scroll text highlight effects that are inspired by Dribbble shots and videos. The effects can be optimized for one word only and achieved using GSAP Flip. 39 12. 12 [](/posts/how-to-build-your-design-system-upvwh0x4d "How to Build Your Design System") Article Figma · 3y How to Build Your Design System Learn how to build a design system tailored to your goals and challenges. A design system ensures consistency, speeds up workflows, and allows teams to focus on solving user problems. 38 13. 13 [](/posts/the-omnisite-1vfbo2xuu "The Omnisite") Article Svelte Blog · 2y The Omnisite The launch of Svelte 5 and the new sv CLI comes with a redesigned, unified website under the svelte.dev domain. This consolidation resolves issues such as inconsistent navigation, broken links, and isolated preferences across different sites. The updated site features a calm, cohesive layout, with a simplified color palette, improved button styles, and a new typographic approach using serif fonts to enhance readability and distinctiveness. The site is now open source, inviting community contributions. 38 2 14. 14 [](/posts/this-tailwind-plugin-makes-your-text-look-beautiful-nlkh8tw16 "This Tailwind Plugin Makes Your Text Look Beautiful") Video Web Dev Simplified · 2y This Tailwind Plugin Makes Your Text Look Beautiful Tailwind CSS removes all default styling, which can be problematic for rendering text content like blogs with markdown. The Tailwind CSS Typography extension resolves this by providing easy-to-apply styling through the 'prose' class. It offers out-of-the-box beautiful text styling and is highly customizable for text size, color, and elements. 36 1 15. 15 [](/posts/design-trends-2024-by-ronas-it-px4wgdwch "Design Trends 2024 by Ronas IT") Article Community Picks · 3y Design Trends 2024 by Ronas IT AI-generated art, expressive typography, holographic design, minimalism and brutalism, and surrealism in 3D are the design trends for 2024 as discussed by Ronas IT. 33 1 16. 16 [](/posts/don-t-use-viewport-units-for-font-size-lxhifyh1y "Don't use viewport units for font-size") Video Kevin Powell · 2y Don't use viewport units for font-size Using viewport units for font size in web design may seem advantageous for creating fluid typography, but it raises significant accessibility and resizing issues. Instead, employing the CSS clamp function offers a better solution, ensuring minimum, maximum, and dynamic growth for font sizes without compromising user preferences. Tools like Utopia can help generate appropriate CSS to handle various viewport and font sizes efficiently. 32 1 17. 17 [](/posts/web-style-guide-dvi2mwrui "Web Style Guide") Article Community Picks · 2y Web Style Guide Web Style Guide is a comprehensive book on web design written by Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton. It covers topics such as strategy, research, process, information architecture, site structure, page structure, interface design, graphic design, typography, editorial style, images, and video. 32 18. 18 [](/posts/naming-things-tyfi1sbez "Naming things") Article Lobsters · 2y Naming things Naming things accurately in programming is as hard as cache invalidation due to the complexity of language and context. Examples like how 'train' can mean different things in a train booking system or how 'glue' is used in TeX highlight the importance and challenge of choosing precise terms to avoid misunderstandings. Creating unique terms, as seen with the word 'stencil' in historical dictionaries, can sometimes resolve these ambiguities. 30 1 19. 19 [](/posts/letter-spacing-is-broken-and-there-s-nothing-we-can-do-about-it-maybe-gbie1wtqr "Letter Spacing is Broken and There’s Nothing We Can Do About It… Maybe") Article CSS-Tricks · 2y Letter Spacing is Broken and There’s Nothing We Can Do About It… Maybe Recent discussions within the CSS Working Group revealed a significant issue with how the 'letter-spacing' property is rendered across different browsers. Despite the CSS specification stating that spacing should be applied only between characters, browsers like Chrome, Firefox, and Safari implement it differently, causing inconsistencies and alignment problems, especially in multilingual text. Two proposed solutions include reworking the space distribution or giving developers control over spacing placement. Leaving the current implementation unchanged is also an option, though less likely. 30 20. 20 [](/posts/introducing-hashicorp-sans-j59qfluag "Introducing HashiCorp Sans") Article HashiCorp · 2y Introducing HashiCorp Sans HashiCorp Sans is a custom font designed to reflect the evolution of the brand. It replaces the previous fonts used by HashiCorp and features accentuated bridges and slabs, developer-inspired characteristics, sparkle in the letterforms, and humanist letterforms. 30 1 21. 21 [](/posts/creating-fluid-typography-with-the-css-clamp-function-sitepoint-wnw1zv6ka "Creating Fluid Typography with the CSS clamp() Function — SitePoint") Article SitePoint · 2y Creating Fluid Typography with the CSS clamp() Function — SitePoint Learn how to use the CSS clamp() function to implement fluid typography in your projects. Fluid typography allows for responsive font sizes across different device sizes, reducing CSS bloat and improving user experience. The clamp() function takes a minimum value, a preferred value, and a maximum value to control the font size. 30 22. 22 [](/posts/zed-decoded-text-coordinate-systems-xswnekh3i "Zed Decoded: Text Coordinate Systems") Article Zed · 2y Zed Decoded: Text Coordinate Systems The post explores various text coordinate systems used in the Zed text editor, including Points, Offsets, DisplayPoints, and Anchors. It explains each system's purpose and nuances, such as how Points are zero-indexed positions in a text buffer, Offsets represent a position as a single count of characters, and DisplayPoints account for visible text formatting like soft-wrapping and folding. Anchors are unique in their use for maintaining positional consistency even as the document is edited, crucial for collaborative environments. 27 5 23. 23 [](/posts/modern-font-stacks-gwrdhf5bl "Modern Font Stacks") Article Frontend Masters · 3y Modern Font Stacks An appreciation for Dan Klammer's Modern Font Stacks project and the ability to use system fonts instead of custom ones. Highlighting the Geometric Humanist stack and how it renders across different operating systems. 27 24. 24 [](/posts/githubnext-monaspace-an-innovative-superfamily-of-fonts-for-code-bdjh7c8xs "githubnext/monaspace: An innovative superfamily of fonts for code") Article Lobsters · 3y githubnext/monaspace: An innovative superfamily of fonts for code Monaspace is a monospaced type superfamily with distinct variable axis typefaces and coding ligatures. It offers font installation instructions for macOS, Windows, and Linux. The post also explains how to set the font family and enable texture healing and coding ligatures in VS Code. 25 25. 25 [](/posts/martian-grotesk-at-evil-martians-m37vjurnb "Martian Grotesk at Evil Martians") Article Community Picks · 2y Martian Grotesk at Evil Martians Martian Grotesk is a typeface with a strong personality that is perfect for web and mobile developers. It has a unique aesthetic and is designed to address the problem of uneven metrics. It is ideal for web development due to its even spacing and legibility. 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