The Official Twitter Archive of @404boyfriend™ (née @xdesro)

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        the best part of any type microsite is getting to play with the fonts right out of the gate — I created this reusable content component we could rapidly scaffold the page content with while allowing users to get weird with the variable properties, everything content-editable.
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      we needed a way to show the differences in personality between Escalator and Elevator, so I put together this component that used the Bézier data of each glyph and some CSS mix-blend-modes to demonstrate those differences. really stands out on the Q, W and S glyphs.
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    I think it's fun and nice to represent the axes of a variable font as actual axes, so we created this element that lets you play with the optical size and weight of both font faces.
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      in the past I've used a hand-rolled Node utility script to generate JSON of all the glyphs and glyph categories in a font — it's super useful for static site generation. I should open-source this bad boy, it's like not that much code but very very useful and reusable.
      oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API