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Clagnut by Richard Rutter

The online home and blog of Richard Rutter, cofounder of Clearleft and Fontdeck. Here he writes about web typography, human-centred design, Brighton, music and occasionally cycling.

  • By Richard Rutter
  • Based in United Kingdom
  • Roughly eight posts per year
  • First post on

Posts per year

Data for this chart is available in the table below
Posts per year
Year starting Posts
2020 3
2021 3
2022 10
2023 10
2024 8

Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.

Most recent posts

The problem with superscripts and subscripts
A bug in Chromium and Safari makes support of proper superscript and subscript characters problematic. See exactly why, and what you might be able to do about it. Read more.
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Introducing TODS – a typographic and OpenType default stylesheet
Introducing a new open source web typography project. The idea is to have a default CSS file to set sensible typographic defaults for use on prose text, making particular use of the font features provided …
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Use of ch unit considered inappropriate (in certain circumstances)
When did we start using the ch unit to specify the maximum length for a line of text in CSS? To do so makes assumptions that don't necessarily hold up, and there are more appropriate …
On , 54 words