2 min
text-wrap: balance and pretty
Two values that fix the two ugliest things typesetting does on the web, and the rule for which to use is entirely about how many lines you have.
Typography
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6 min
One word on the second line
A three-up card grid where at exactly one width a heading broke as 5 words and then 1, and every fix I'd ever used for it lived in the content instead of the stylesheet.
2 min
word-break and overflow-wrap
Two properties that sound like synonyms, do different things, and get reached for in the wrong order roughly every time a long URL breaks out of a card.
5 min
Web fonts and the flash of invisible text
Every browser has picked a different answer to what should happen while a web font downloads, and all of the answers are bad so the decision quietly falls to you whether you choose to make it or not.