Elliot Jay Stocks is a designer, speaker, and author

Tomorrow’s web type today: from Qaegkvwyz to Qaegkvwyz using stylesets

Posted on May 15 2012

It pains me to say it, but this is the first post in the ‘tomorrow’s web type today’ series that doesn’t look best in a WebKit browser: this time around, it’s Firefox’s turn to take the limelight. It may sound a little hypocritical of me, given that the reason I used subsets for the heading on yesterday’s post was because I thought Firefox-only support wasn’t enough, but I couldn’t do a hack two days in a row.

So, if you haven’t done so already, I urge you to open Firefox and look at this post there. I personally feel that Firefox’s text rendering is relatively poor — I don’t like the way it calculates em squares and, in turn, renders line-height and padding (look at the moz-specific rules I’ve had to employ in this post’s stylesheet) — but it’s currently the only browser to accurately render OpenType stylesets; in this case, those contained in the wonderful Bree.

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