https://www.areyouelectronic.com/tags/design/Recent content in design on are you electronicHugoen-usSat, 25 Apr 2026 09:26:00 -0700https://www.areyouelectronic.com/posts/style-test/Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:26:00 -0700https://www.areyouelectronic.com/posts/style-test/<h2 id="section-heading">section heading</h2> <p>Lorem Ipsum Dolet etc.</p> <ul> <li>a</li> <li>b</li> <li>c</li> <li>&#x1f604;</li> </ul> <p>This has a footnote<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup>.</p> <div class="footnotes" role="doc-endnotes"> <hr> <ol> <li id="fn:1"> <p>a footnote.&#160;<a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-backref" role="doc-backlink">&#x21a9;&#xfe0e;</a></p> </li> </ol> </div>https://www.areyouelectronic.com/posts/on-monospace/Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.areyouelectronic.com/posts/on-monospace/<p>Most prose on the web uses proportional fonts because that&rsquo;s what books do. But a blog isn&rsquo;t a book. The unit of writing is the paragraph, not the page, and reading speed is gated more by the screen than by the typeface.</p> <p>Monospace flips a few small things in your favor:</p> <ul> <li>The column has a natural width — about 80 characters — that you don&rsquo;t have to think about.</li> <li>Inline <code>code</code> doesn&rsquo;t visually shift the line.</li> <li>The text looks like a draft, which lowers the stakes of publishing.</li> </ul> <p>The downside is that long-form prose can feel relentless. So far the trade seems fine for short posts.</p>