The interesting thing about type this year was not a new trend but an old one becoming affordable. Variable fonts stopped being a demo and started being the default: one file, every weight, and an optical size axis that makes a 12px caption and a 72px headline look like they belong to the same family, because they finally do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Display type went in the opposite direction: narrower, higher contrast, and unafraid of an odd terminal. It photographs beautifully in a hero and falls apart at 16px, which is exactly the point. Pick one for the headline and one for everything else, and do not let them meet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The quiet story is body copy. Fluid type using `clamp()` finally shipped everywhere, so the days of a 14px paragraph on a phone and a 14px paragraph on a 27-inch monitor are over. Set a comfortable measure of 60 to 75 characters, let the size follow the viewport, and most of the legibility argument disappears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My own default for a personal site has not changed much: one grotesque for the interface, one voice for the headline, and a lot of restraint about how many weights ship. Every extra weight is a real download for someone on a slow connection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Variable fonts finally became practical, display faces got weirder, and body copy quietly got better. A working designer’s read on the year in type.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":39,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[16,17,18],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-typography","tag-trends","tag-type-design","tag-typography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}