Jen Simmons
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An Event Apart Chicago 2018
Ampersand 2018
My takeaways from a day of talks on the future of typography
I’m in England (for the first time!) where I’ve just attended Clearleft’s outstanding Ampersand conference in Brighton. I was a little concerned that the combination of jet lag and the (otherwise excellent) venue’s warm temperature would make it hard for me to focus, but the lineup of speakers was more than engaging enough to overcome those obstacles. The most discussed topic of the day was, unsurprisingly, variable fonts, support for which has begun… See more →
💡 Great tip: to test fallback CSS in modern browsers, misspell a feature query:
@supports (display: ggrid) { … }Links: January 2018
Hello, dear reader!
January is gone, but its links remain.
In my little corner of the internet, I posted a roundup of my favorite stuff from 2017 (including a look ahead at plans for 2018). As a subscriber, you may be especially interested in the stats I compiled about the 299 links I shared last year.
I released my first open source software project, Column Setter, a Sass tool for building custom responsive grids that… See more →
If you’re a web designer and/or dev, @mozilla’s Layout Land channel on YouTube with @jensimmons is a wonderful gift. youtu.be/7msERxu7ivg
Catching up on conference talks. I’ve long been a @jensimmons fan but somehow never saw her speak. She’s so great! vimeo.com/147950924