#Typography Tip Tuesday: if your font has different grades, use them! At first glance, grade might appear similar to weight, but whereas weight makes parts of the text look different, grade is helps maintain *consistency*.

Image 1: Unlike weight (except in multiplexed fonts), grade doesn’t affect the overall width. Typeface: Roboto Flex.

Image 2: On screens, light-on-dark text will appear slightly bloated, so switch to a lighter grade when designing for Dark Mode. Typeface: Tabac.

Elk is being promoted in the Microsoft Store this week! If you're a Windows user, leave us a rating or review for Elk there! It would help new users visiting the product page when evaluating whether to try Elk (and/or @Mastodon) for the first time! 🧡

A big shoutout to the MS Store team for making this happen! 🙌

The new ".zip" domain is being used almost solely for malware. Some of the clicks are very deceptive, even to technically knowledgeable people. See the attached image for an example.

You can block all zip domains with the following uBlock Origin rule under My Filters:

||zip^

Tell everyone you know.