The Joy of Subsets: Crossbreeding Web Fonts

95% of web design is typography. The remaining 5% is spent trying to fix infinite task runner recursion and swearing. However, when we say “web typography”, we rarely mean type design. Choosing, pairing and setting fonts are the more commonplace activities, with type design regarded as a more specialist and esoteric occupation.

Accordingly, most of the interest was in the described way font subsets could be used in font stacks to mix and match character sets.

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