Braintactics #98 – Minimalism, 1% better, Every Layout, accessible type, dealing with drop caps and turning a Tesla into a pickup truck

Hey everyone!

Here’s this weeks roundup of what’s new in design, code and typography.

Thought provoking

Joshua Becker on The ABC’s of Minimalism.

How to be great? Just be good, repeatably from Steph Smith.

Design and Code

Andy Bell and Haydon Pickering’s new project Every Layout teaches you how to approach common layout problems in CSS and create consistent, robust design systems – without all the hacks.

“1% today is better than 50% tomorrow or some distant and impossible far-flung future.” Robin Rendle, 1% Better.

Jim Nielsen on How to Create a macOS Menu Bar App for Netlify.

Publishing simple books with Jekyll from Bradly Taunt.

Typography

5 keys to accessible web typography. Matej Latin with another great article, this time on the best techniques for solving common accessibility issues in type.

Drop caps and design systems. An interesting and informative piece from Ethan Marcotte on what his team learnt when dealing with the problem of rendering drop caps consistently across browsers.

Fontsmith and VBAT create the world’s first variable font logo from Phil Garnham.

Something to watch

Slightly off topic but Simone Giertz turned her Tesla into a pickup truck and it’s totally awesome.

Thanks for reading,
Harry

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