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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 seven 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 6

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

Most recent posts

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 …
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A modern approach to browser support
Recently we realised Clearleft didn't have a written browser support policy. Rather than fixating on specific browsers, we needed to a policy that considered capabilities and outcomes for users. It turns out there’s an initiative …
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Dao Day 2024 – a regression in the making
It's twenty four years to the day since A List Part published John Allsopp's seminal treatise A Dao of Web Design. But all this time on, we're still making the same mistakes. Read more.
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