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This is the fourth edition of Nofont.com. I launched the first version back in
This is the brand new restart.
Platform
Nofont.com is powered by my own plain text based publishing platform Txtport. The platform makes use of Dropbox, plain text files and Markdown. From that it automatically renders a fully functional site. Just write, save, done.
All the micro-typographic details is automatically handled by the OpenTypography framework that I’ve built for improved web typography and readability.
Fonts
- Alygreya - by Juan Pablo del Peral
- I’ve chosen Alegreys for it’s very high readability and its unique character. It also has decent support for ligatures and small caps.
- Noeud - by Ellmer Stefan
- In my view this is the perfect drop cap typeface; it’s very strict and restrained but still very ornamental, expressive and humanist.
The Noeud font isn’t released publicly yet but I have got the permission from Ellmer to use it on the site.
Enhancements
- Typeplate - by @gryghostvisuals and @zakkain
- Typeplate is a typographic starter kit. Typeplate define proper markup with extensible styling for common typographic patterns. It’s a stripped-down Sass or css library of your choosing primarily concerned with the appropriate technical implementation of design patterns - not how they look.
- Horunge.js - by David Paulsson
- Prevent typographic orphans. Horunge is the Swedish equivalent for orphans when we’re talking typography. Supports commonjs, amd or browser globals.
- Hyphenator.js – by Mathias Nater
- Javascript that implements client-side hyphenation of html-Documents. I’ve decided to go with justified text on Nofont.com. Partly as a test of what you can achieve in a browser but also since I think readability is better when the text is justified (as long as proper hyphenation is in place). I researched what hyphenation frameworks that was around and think Mathias one was the best. I think Bram Stein shall have a lot of credit too sice Hyphenator.js is based on his work.