--- title: How to Catch Typos on Your Blog author: George Mandis date: 2017-01-13 tags: post, post, blog, miscellany --- This blog is not out to win any design awards, but I do value its efficiency. The CSS is only 1.8k and the site — depending on whether or not I have images loading on the page — loads pretty fast. The biggest part of the digital footprint I can't figure out how to get around is [the font](http://george.mand.is/2016/07/updated-style/) which comes in at 172kb... I wish I didn't like it so much. There is one aspect I really like and have come to appreciate however: the typo link at the bottom of each post. The markup is simple, using the trusty [mailto protocol](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mailto) to initiate an email so that the visitor can inform me about any typos. My setup does a few things that make I think are neat - The mail goes to george+typo@mand.is, allowing me to easily filter typo correction emails from the rest. - The subject is pre-filled to inform me the email is about a typo *and* what blog post it's associated with, so that the visitor doesn't have to include this information. - The body of the email is pre-filled with similar content. The idea is all they'll have to do is explain the typo. The markup looks like this: `Find a typo?` It's a tiny technologically unsophisticated nicety, but one I put some thought into and have come to appreciate.