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The depths of the river Thames in London hold many unexpected stories, gleaned from the recovery of prehistoric tools, Roman pottery, medieval jewelry, and much more besides. Yet the tale of the lost (and since recovered) Doves typeface is surely one of the most peculiar. A little over a century ago, the printer T.J...

The Basics of Legibility A Short Guide for Non-Typographers By Niko Kitsakis, April 2024 I got an interesting piece of feedback regarding part one of my article about buttons in user interfaces. A reader pointed out that while I men­tioned that Apple uses a rather unsuitable typeface in their opera­ting systems, I h...

Float is very straightforward, there are only two values, inline-start/inline-end, that replace the values of left/right .In English(LTR):float: left = float: inline-startfloat: right = float: inline-endText-alignEven easier than floats, the values left/right are replaced by start/end.In English(LTR):text-align :lef...