Nice Web Type

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• typekit on Mar 11Classic and contemporary fonts from P22 Type Foundry, T.26, and others, now on Typekit: http://j.mp/aCdJVh
• jasonsantamaria on Mar 11SXSW Web Fonts Meetup brought to you by Typekit, Font Bureau, FontShop, and Ascender. Dress up as your fav kerning pair! http://j.mp/apxROj
• H_FJ on Mar 11Hypothesis: ideal screen reading size is 13px before coffee, 11px after coffee.
• FontSquirrel on Mar 10Also added Hebrew as a subset language.
• FontSquirrel on Mar 10Font Face Generator can now take unicode ranges to subset by if you don't like what you see. IE: 0021-007E
• typekit on Mar 10New fonts from Mark Simonson, the League of Moveable Type, and HDV now in the Typekit library. http://j.mp/cXu0mk
• fontspring on Mar 103 new weights added to the nice headline font Richard Miller: http://bit.ly/9G6pqQ and Richard Miller Rounded http://bit.ly/do7vIN
• zeldman on Mar 10★ CSS @font-face generator by @fontsquirrel could play a huge role in spreading webfonts love. http://www.zeldman.com/x/69 ★
• FontShop on Mar 9“a global family-friendly marketplace and community for Moms” http://j.mp/cIDlS9 Perfect site for FF Masala Web http://j.mp/cyMbWX
• typekit on Mar 9Launched IE support for the Typekit Editor. We've always served fonts to IE, of course, but now you can also edit kits with version 7 or 8.
• opentype on Mar 6Ascender starts webfont service: http://bit.ly/bl4vbQ Wanna pay extra to deliver Arial or Comic Sans with your website? ;-)
• FontSquirrel on Mar 5Regenerating the font-face library as I type. Now includes WOFF and Cufón files by default.
• FontSquirrel on Mar 5New Font Face Generator features: Cufón support, subset by language, 2 WOFF types, and choose-your-own CSS style. http://bit.ly/zfN8
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• fontbureau on Mar 3Web Fonts in Action: http://bit.ly/cIxEZS If you're in NYC tomorrow and want to know about the future of web typography, this is where to be
• CampaignMonitor on Mar 3Does the font-face CSS property work in email? Here's the verdict: http://cot.ag/9HRE7K ^RH
• font on Mar 2Does @font-face work in email? http://bit.ly/cQ1VBc /via @sprungmarkers

• TypeIt

  "Type accent marks, diacritics and other characters online." Mar 1

• CSS Text Wrapper

  "The CSS Text Wrapper allows you to easily make HTML text wrap in shapes other than just a rectangle. You can make text wrap around curves, zig-zags, or whatever you want. All you have to do is draw the left and right edges below and then copy the generated code to your website." Mar 1

• opentype on Mar 1Enter foreign characters easily: http://www.typeit.org
• inspirationbit on Mar 1Reading @yaili's thoughtful round up on CSS Typography over at @smashingmag: http://is.gd/9szcN
• FontFont on Mar 1We are gathering public responses to our Web FontFonts on Delicious. Feel free to tag further links. ☞ http://delicious.com/tag/WebFontFonts
• zeldman on Mar 1New Franklin in Town: how Tomi Haaparanta's new TeeFranklin stacks up against classic cuts. http://is.gd/9snhc

February 2010

• Open Source Web Font Specimen Browser

  Marc Tobias Kunisch: "I've built a little Specimen Browser using Tim Brown's fantastic Web Font Specimen and some lines of JavaScript. Just open up the Web Font Specimen Browser in the browser you want to test in and select a font from the drop-down." Feb 22

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• Line breaking algorithm in JS

  Bram Stein: "This is an implementation of the Knuth and Plass line breaking algorithm using JavaScript and the HTML5 canvas element. The goal of this implementation is to optimally set justified text in the new HTML5 canvas element, and ultimately provide a library for various line breaking algorithms in JavaScript." Feb 18

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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

• ★ On leaving Vassar

  A note from Nice Web Type. Feb 4

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• 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

• 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

• ★ New: mobile Flickr screenshots

  A note from Nice Web Type. Feb 3

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• ★ From my Printed Books professor

  A note from Nice Web Type. Feb 1

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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

• ★ 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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