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🗓️ 17 March 2025
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Scott and Wes dig into the wild world of CSS fonts—covering fallbacks, variable fonts, and new tricks like text-box-trim. They also break down font-display, font kits, and how to avoid layout shifts when loading custom type.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Syntax. Today we're going to be talking about fonts on the web. |
0:05.0 | There's so much here. There's a lot of new stuff from how we are able to trim and display fonts to variable fonts, fallbacks, and so much more. |
0:15.0 | Stuff that I think everybody just can really level up their typography overall by learning some really basic skills |
0:23.1 | here, but also new features on the web. My name is Scott Tolensky. I'm a developer from Denver. |
0:28.3 | With me, as always, is West boss. What's up, Wes? Hey, yeah, fonts are a never-ending well |
0:35.5 | of sort of digging into it, |
0:37.8 | both in CSS. |
0:38.9 | And then once you get into like custom fonts and variable fonts, |
0:43.8 | it's just this wide, wide world. |
0:45.8 | And we are going to attempt to show you some of the things |
0:49.4 | that you as a developer should know about, |
0:51.6 | especially a lot of these sort of newer features that are |
0:54.3 | either now supported or are coming relatively soon. |
1:00.9 | Before we get started, let's talk about, actually, Sentra just released their own font. |
1:09.7 | Did you see this, Wes? |
1:13.1 | Yes, I did. What's it called again damn it sans uh i believe uh blink 182 reference here so yeah go check that out we'll have a link |
1:19.8 | to that in the show knows looks nice on actually that's uh it's kind of cool to have your own typeface |
1:24.5 | at a company right yeah what a What a cool thing to do that. |
1:28.4 | It was a hack week project, and they went ahead and started using it on. |
1:33.3 | Yeah. |
1:33.6 | I think they're using it on the merch store as well. |
1:36.5 | I didn't realize that when we redesign the syntax merch store, it's available at century. |
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