Showing posts with label web fonts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label web fonts. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 09, 2012

Say no to Faux Bold

Faux-bold Diplomata
Browsers can do terrible things to type. If text is styled as bold or italic and the typeface family does not include a bold or italic font, browsers will compensate by trying to create bold and italic styles themselves. By A List Apart

Friday, April 27, 2012

A Closer Look At Font Rendering

 Ideal shape, black-and-white and grayscale rendering

The Web font revolution that started around two years ago has brought up a topic that many of us had merrily ignored for many years: font rendering. The newfound freedom Web fonts are giving us brings along new challenges. Choosing and using a font is not merely a stylistic issue, and it’s worth having a look at how the technology comes into play. By Smashing Magazine

Monday, October 24, 2011

How to Bulletproof @font-face Web Fonts



You’re interviewing for your dream job, and you’re ready to kick some butt. A small group is gathered around a conference phone and some coding exercises, and they’re pulling up your portfolio on a projector so that everyone can review it.
It looks great, except for one thing: All of your beautiful web fonts are gone and have been replaced with… Arial. By Six Revisions

Saturday, January 01, 2011

Five Principles for Choosing and Using Typefaces

Type-mash2 in What Font Should I Use?: Five Principles for Choosing and Using Typefaces

For many beginners, the task of picking fonts is a mystifying process. There seem to be endless choices — from normal, conventional-looking fonts to novelty candy cane fonts and bunny fonts — with no way of understanding the options, only never-ending lists of categories and recommendations. By Dan Mayer

25 New Free High-Quality Fonts

Geom1 in 25 New Free High-Quality Fonts

Check out this selection of new fonts:Pompadour Numeral Set, Lato, Crimson Text, Espinosa Nova, Musa Ornata, Spatha Sans, ColorLines, Roke1984, Neuton, Avro, Baurete and other fonts. By Vitaly Friedman

Tuesday, June 15, 2010