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• "Smiley" bulletproof @font-face syntax

  Paul Irish with a subtle, happy revision to everybody's favorite @font-face syntax: "There has been concern over specifying local font names. [...] This technique is recommended if you think a locally installed version of this font is not in your best interest." Feb 8

• kernest on Feb 8for every 1 person that downloads a web font package from http://kernest.com, 10 people are having Kernest serve their fonts.
• fontspring on Feb 7Just to be clear, don't call us a service. You actually download the webfonts we sell.
• opentype on Feb 7TypeFront – a font distribution platform for the web http://bit.ly/atjaa4 #webfonts
• RogerBlack on Feb 6@typographica : Actually Zeldman can't be on the SXSW web fonts panel, since he is already on a panel, so we have Jeff Veen and Bert Bos.
• processtype on Feb 5If you read recently that we're starting our own web font service then, correction: we are not.

• ★ On leaving Vassar

  A note from Nice Web Type. Feb 4

• H_FJ on Feb 4@jontangerine We use "superfamily." See also: http://j.mp/at0qyW
• jontangerine on Feb 4Regarding a typeface with multiple variants of sans, serif, slab, etc? E.g. Unit. What's your preferred term? Super family? Meta family?
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• typekit on Feb 4@roberthaverly We agree. We're working on a simpler way to manage sites and accounts.
• roberthaverly on Feb 4@typekit You really need something between portfolio and performance. Theres a significant business & cost different between 5 and 40 sites.

• Revised Font Stack

  Amrinder Sandhu eyeballs, checks statistics, and comments on font stacks from popular sites like Facebook, I Love Typography, and Jon Tangerine. Don't miss the bulleted list of "Notes" about halfway down. Feb 4

• typographica on Feb 3I’m sharing a panel with the esteemed @zeldman and @RogerBlack at SXSW. We’ll be talking #webfonts on March 13. More soon.
• josefrichter on Feb 3HUGE NEWS! #Typekit finally supports full glyph set, i.e. including CE languages! Introduced just a few minutes ago...
• typekit on Feb 3Typekit is now available in all TypePad blogs! http://j.mp/ah32Ak

• Fontspring

  "All of the fonts on Fontspring that are marked as '@Font-Face Ready' can be downloaded and used in your websites without recurring subscription costs. [...] Our best license allows you the designer to use the fonts in an unlimited number of domains under your control. Other fonts must be purchased by the number of domains you expect to use them on." Feb 3

• FontSquirrel on Feb 3Launching today...Hundreds of @font-face ready fonts for sale on our new site: http://www.fontspring.com

• ★ New: mobile Flickr screenshots

  A note from Nice Web Type. Feb 3

• dustinwilson on Feb 2looks like Firefox 3.6 has some line-height problems with web fonts at the mo. Weird.
• nelking on Feb 2Just got @typekit to work with my @typepad blog. If I can make it happen, anyone can. Feeling like a font nerd.
• refreshboston on Feb 2The next @refreshboston event is February 18th with @paul_irish, Squeezing the Best Out of Web Fonts: http://bit.ly/bjPA6p
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• snookca on Feb 2Video from my session, The Type We Want: Using Fonts on the Web http://fronteers.nl?p=231 at @fronteers09
• opentype on Feb 2Richard is not happy about @font-face in Opera: http://bit.ly/c3QDl4 #webfonts
• converttoshape on Feb 1www.converttoshape.blogspot.com redesign is up, @typekit is integrated and looking wonderful!

• ★ From my Printed Books professor

  A note from Nice Web Type. Feb 1

• designrelated on Feb 1"Web Fonts in Action" w/ Roger Black & Bill Davis at The Type Directors Club on March 4th http://ow.ly/12LSc #typography #tdc #fonts
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January 2010

• Text-Shadow Anti-Aliasing

  Philip Renich: "I'm really not a big fan of how Windows usually handles [type rendering], so I decided to try to do something about it." Jan 28

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• ★ Years of bookmarkable goodness

  A note from Nice Web Type. Jan 25

• Users Report Fuzzy Fonts In Evernote 3.5

  Richard Fink: "This isn't the first and it won't be the last time Windows users get upset over changes in font rendering. I'm expecting to see a lot of it in the next few years as Microsoft continues to push WPF and moves to its DirectWrite API instead of GDI for ordinary text rendering." Jan 24

• Verdana Pro and Georgia Pro

  Bill Davis: "We are extending each family to 20 fonts. We are creating a Light, Semibold, and Black (each with matching italics), and we are creating a new Condensed family with all the same weights and styles." Jan 21

• ★ Type Manager for Typekit

  A note from Nice Web Type. Jan 21

• NY Times: Typeface Designers Wrestle With the World of Pixels

  "'We have lots of ideas, some have to do with design and some have to do with the technology that delivers the font,' Mr. Hoefler said. 'That's the secret formula we can't talk about yet.'" Jan 12

• Font Hinting Explained By A Font Design Master

  Richard Fink consults John Hudson on typeface hinting and formats. Jan 11

• TextMod 2.1

  Multilingual placeholder text for testing language support in fonts. Jan 2

• Browser Choice vs Font Rendering

  Thomas Phinney on the interplay among Windows browser text rendering and font smoothing settings. Jan 2

December 2009

• Real Fonts and Rendering: The New Elephant in the Room

  Jeffrey Zeldman for 24ways: "Put simply, even fonts optimized for web use [...] will not look good in every browser and OS. That's because every browser treats hinting differently, as does every OS, and every OS version." Dec 22

• ★ FontFriend bookmarklet

  A note from Nice Web Type. Dec 21

• Spruce It Up

  Jonathan Snook for 24ways: "Can we optimize a font like we can an image? Yes. Image optimization essentially works by removing unnecessary image data such as colour data, hidden comments or using compression algorithms. How do you remove unnecessary information from a font? Subsetting." Dec 18

• Soma FontFriend

  Matt Wiebe: "This is a bookmarklet made for web designers who want to rapidly check how different fonts and font styles look on their screen without editing code and refreshing pages." Dec 17

• Designing For The Switch

  Mark Boulton for 24ways: "When we embed a typeface, we must look very carefully at the typefaces in the font stack and the relationship between them. Because, previously, the user would not see a switch from one typeface to another, they'd just get either one or the other. Not both. With FOUT, the user sees two typefaces." Dec 16

• Azbuka CSS Typographical Base Rendering Library

  Vladimir Carrer: "There is almost no typography book that is not talking about the golden proportion. I was very skeptical about this rule in the beginning, but now I truly believe that there is something magical about this number. For me the golden proportion is mathematical search for beauty." Dec 14

• ★ Sticking with a typeface

  A note from Nice Web Type. Dec 11

November 2009

• ★ Type Rendering

  A note from Nice Web Type. Nov 30

• ★ Why web standards matter

  A note from Nice Web Type. Nov 30

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• ★ Web Font Specimen and A List Apart

  A note from Nice Web Type. Nov 17

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June 2009

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