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Coding fonts

Screenshot of Source Code Pro on Coding Fonts

Coding Fonts is a fabulous resource from CSS Tricks for selecting alternative fonts for your code editor.

While a few of the fonts are commercial, many are open source and/or free.

In Sublime Text 3, changing the font is as simple as downloading and installing the font then opening Preferences > Settings then adding the following line of code to the right-hand pane (within the file ‘Preferences.sublime-settings — User’):

"font_face": "NAME_OF_FONT",

Save the file and the font updates instantly.

Sorted CSS colours

Sometimes it’s the simplest ideas, right?

Those that know me from a web development perspective know how much I love CSS. Here’s another simple tool to add to my design toolbox.

Sorted CSS Colors [sic] by Mustafa Enes Ertarhanacı is an elegant tool to sort the named CSS colours in a way that shows related colours together. And that’s it.

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Transcending CSS Revisited

One of the most influential books I ever read about web development was Jeffrey Zeldman’s ‘blue beanie book’ Designing with Web Standards (2003). It truly changed the way I thought about and practiced web development.

Designing with Web Standards (Voices That Matter): Amazon.co.uk ...

The other book that influenced me a great deal was Andy Clarke’s Transcending CSS (2006)

The great news is that Andy Clarke has made the his updated version Transcending CSS Revisited: The Fine Art of Web Design available online to read for free. Or you can buy a PDF version for offline reading.

SEC digital calendar website is now mobile first

How the new SEC digital calendar website looks on a Google Pixel 2XL smartphone

This week I launched a mobile-first redesign of my SEC digital calendar website which is a resource for the Scottish Episcopal Church to enable anyone to integrate this year’s church calendar and lectionary with their digital calendar (e.g. Google Calendar).

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