Building Low Carbon Websites

I signed the Sustainable Web Manifesto a couple of weeks ago. The manifesto perfectly reflects how I have been handling my business and my projects. I created a special “GO GREEN” subsection to talk about the topic in more detail and give you some more context about the areas I can help you with. We […]

VisBug – Hover inspect in the browser

Development / Design

Visbug is an amazing new browser extension that allows you to do a visual inspection of your website in development. What they have to say about their tool and capabilities For Designers & Content Creators A really nice tool for designers & content creators, helping them to optimize the look and feel of a website. […]

Font Face Observer … gives you a font promise ;)

Development / Design / Javascript

Font Face Observer is a fast and simple web font loader. You can use it to load fonts and customise your browser’s font loading behaviour. Font Face Observer gives you control over web font loading using a simple promise based interface. It doesn’t matter where your fonts come from: host them yourself, or use a […]

Options to detect when a @font-face has been loaded

Development / API / Design

What is a @font-face? @font-face is a CSS at-rule used to define custom fonts for use on web pages. It allows web designers and developers to specify downloadable fonts that can be used to render text on their websites, regardless of whether the font is installed on the user’s device. What is the FOUT, FOIT […]

Absolute vs Relative sizes in design

Design / CSS

relative sizes, so that fonts and elements resize accordingly. CURRENT RELATIVE UNITS CALCULATION If not set differently, 1 em equals 16 Pixel in most browsers, which gives us a calculation basis. Preset value = 16PX = 100% or 1EM or 1 REM So 1/16 = 0,0625 is our calculation factor. PX EM 1 = 0,0625 12 […]

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