If you’ve ever suffered through trying to get monospaced text embedded within body text to be sensibly-sized on a webpage by way of increasingly arcane CSS incantations, this webpage is for you. (In brief: font-size-adjust: ex-height 0.5, line-height: 0px and combinations thereof.)

A wonderful exploration of the history and practice of Arabic typography. The introduction promises a tour through five hundred years of history including:

… a twice-mutilated vizier, a Qurʾān that vanished for four centuries, a Beirut newspaperman with a deadline, and an Egyptian physician who taught himself font engineering for fun

and the essay delivers. If that doesn’t grab your attention I don’t know how to help you.