New @Font-Face Syntax: Simpler, Easier
I love it when a plan comes together. Some months ago, in an an email exchange with Jeffrey Zeldman about the feasibility of a book about web fonts, I wrote that the turning point – the point at which...
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A Webfont Specimen Page Free For Download
Tim Brown of Typekit put together a webfont specimen page awhile back. Originally introduced in Tim’s article for AListApart: Real Web Type in Real Web Context, and it does give a real nice view of a...
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A Nice Use Of Web Fonts In Mainstream Media
There’s a nice use of web fonts at the New York Times. (Just remember to clear your cookies to keep on reading past their twenty page a month limit.) Titled The Reckoning , it’s a link and teaser page...
View ArticleAdobe Announces Acquisition Of Typekit
It’s fair to say that those close to the development of Web Fonts expected Typekit to be acquired by somebody. Well, today somebody did. Adobe Buys Phonegap And Typekit for Better Web Tools The Typekit...
View ArticleExtensis Brings Google Web Fonts Straight Into Photoshop
Extensis, the company behind the WebINK web font service, today announced a plug-in that brings Google Web Fonts straight into Photoshop. Free And Open-Source Fonts Served Alongside The Proprietary, In...
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Practical Font Design, Third Edition
Practical Font Design3rd Edition In Digital Publishing you need to co-ordinate your efforts with many people. Web designers, developers, server techs – the list goes on and on – and the more you know...
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The Inclusionists
There is a bit of a kerfuffle going on in the world of web standards regarding the use of vendor specific prefixes for CSS properties. There’s an article on AListApart about it that every web developer...
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A Free RasterBRIDGE® Web Font: Puffbuddy Light
What you see above is a screen shot taken on Windows XP.It looks smooth and clean, right?Unlike most so-called ‘web fonts’, all RasterBRIDGE® Web Fonts are specially prepared to look as good in...
View ArticleIn Web Design, The Narrow Column Is King
Get used to it. Learn to live with it. Make it work for you. Check this out: Re-Thinking The Mobile Web It takes a good twenty minutes to get through but it’s worth it. Even if you are already familiar...
View ArticleNo More Newsweek, At Least In Print
Newsweek announced today that as of the end of the year, they will no longer publish a print edition. Management says they plan to transition to an all-digital format in early 2013 called Newsweek...
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Latest Version – 8.2 of Drag n Drop Pangram Font Tester
A new and considerably improved version of the Drag n Drop Pangram Font Tester page has been posted. If you’d like to use it on the web right off of this site, it’s located at this address:...
View ArticleFont Icon Madness
Around a year ago, I remember reading the article The Era Of Symbol Fonts on A List Apart. Despite it being a bit too evangelical and hyperbolic – as the elevation of “Symbol Fonts” into an “Era” in...
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