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Extendify acquires EditorsKit Another acquisition was…

ByDan Knauss

Extendify acquires EditorsKit Another acquisition was announced this week: Extendify is adopting Jeffrey Carandang‘s EditorsKit plugin. EditorsKit provides a set of advanced typographical tools for the WordPress block editor. 🧰 As a “first step,” Extendify has made the EditorsKit Typography and Google Fonts Add-On free. Additionally, the Extendify library of Gutenberg patterns and templates is…

Roll Your Own Fonts

ByDan Knauss

I’m not sorry to see Google Fonts and other sources of fine typography being dropped as remote sources for WordPress themes. Given the relative ease of modifying existing open source typefaces and creating new ones, I wonder why we don’t see more of them being generated and shared in the WordPress space. It would be…

Google has recently released an open-source…

ByBrian Krogsgard

Google has recently released an open-source font system called Noto. It covers more than 800 languages and 110,000 characters. It was designed with the intent to get rid of what they call “tofu”, or the little squares indicating a character isn’t recognized. There are Noto Sans and Noto Serif varieties on the Google Fonts platform, but…

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Post Status Notes #499

ByDavid Bisset

Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship returns to WCUS › Think like a platform again! › Leo Gopal on support for mental health in the community › WP Accessibility Day › Performance Lab 1.1.0 › The WordPress Way › Dropping jQuery for speed › More to WP than Headless and FSE for devs › and more…

The new Google Fonts page is…

ByBrian Krogsgard

The new Google Fonts page is wonderful. You can decide whether you want the preview to be in paragraph form, display, set custom text and size, and apply it across the grid of fonts you’re viewing. It’s so, so, so much better — honestly, I’m way more likely to actually use Google hosted fonts now….

Google Fonts now supports open source…

ByDan Knauss

Google Fonts now supports open source icons, starting with the Material Design icon set. 👍 They’ve “also created an entirely new icon for Google Fonts itself.” In my view, this change makes another Google product logo unrecognizable. 🤷‍♂️