frozen octopus

The record label I help out has a ton of releases. There are over 60 of them. I've been trying to get all the metadata correct on all the albums. The year is easy to sort out but the actual day is very tough to find.

My temporary solution was to just use Jan 01 until I find them. I've been noticing as I add what albums I listen to that there are a lot of Jan 01 releases in Apple Music.

Looks like great minds think a like. Jan 01 must be the universal date for "I give up trying to track down the release date".

I want to start playing with the typography inspirations I am finding on 1950s era Jazz album covers. I thought nth-child would come to the rescue for this but looks like you can't get at words or letter with it.

A bit of digging around and I found the javascript for what I need called Lettering.js. It gets you spans on individual words and letter where you need it. It does it in an a11y compliant way as well which rules.

Tried it out for about 20 minutes and it was very fun. Definitely a tool, used with some restraint, I am going to use a bunch in the future.