- jontangerine on Great, detailed print grid systems article: http://bit.ly/cTcDug Had to adjust dire web typography to read but was worth it. /via @retinart
- KLTF on On CSS transparency applied to overlapping glyphs, via @dberlow (at @typophile): http://bit.ly/b9XEpV
- FontShop on Speaking of alts, we quietly released "Related Families" for many fonts. Check the "Fonts Like This" tab: http://font.me/bNhOeA
- zeldman on ★ Episode 18: Roger Black on web type and templates http://bit.ly/ax0fTi
- typekit on Beautiful redesign of Quipsologies featuring Coquette, Skolar, and P22 Underground: http://bit.ly/1MRhiS
- jontangerine on Originally for @fontdeck, it may be useful for typophiles: ‘Font naming conventions’ — http://j.mp/font-naming
August 2010
- typegirl on The origins of the "M-, m- and em-square" on @Typophile http://cl.ly/2BZe #typography #interesting
- fontdeck on Spotted two excellent sites using Fontdeck this morning: http://brooklynbeta.org/ and http://lanyrd.com/ — thanks, guys!
- inspirationBit on Some interesting Q&A on the topic of Web Typography on Quora: http://is.gd/eMYiJ (just discovered Quora thanks to @typographica)
- typographica on How does Webtype compare with Typekit? http://cl.ly/2BMG Posted my best answer. I welcome additions/corrections. #webfonts
- FontShop on 20% off also applies to Web versions of the 20 Select FontFonts http://font.me/fontshop20years Use http://fontfonter.com & try ’em out.
- typekit on Are you intrigued by typography and the web? How about beer? We want to meet you. http://j.mp/aPSJtM
- jasonsantamaria on I wasted my money so you don't have to. This book of font combinations is thoroughly uninspired and formulaic. Skip it: http://j.mp/byRF6W
- font on W3C Leads Discussion at TypeCon 2010 on New Open Web Font Format (WOFF) http://bit.ly/byfLVx
- font on -webkit-font-smoothing http://bit.ly/centpi
- zeldman on "A PSD is a painting of a website." http://j.mp/ctr0cj
- jontangerine on Slides from John Daggett’s presentation on the CSS fonts module at Typecon (PDF): http://bit.ly/a1NmWs — looks ace. I wish there was audio!
- typekit on Lovely use of Minion on Boing Boing http://j.mp/brU6f6
- typedia on This week's installment of Type News is up on @typedia. Why not go ahead and read it? http://j.mp/b0sceD
- typekit on The Typekit API now supports JSON with callbacks: http://j.mp/b6Dzim
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July 2010
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Font metrics and vertical space in CSS
"If you’ve ever wondered why some fonts look smaller than others at the same typeset size, or why the vertical space between lines of text is such a guessing game, this post is for you."
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★ Font math and CSS
A note from Nice Web Type.
June 2010
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iPad Orientation CSS
"Webkit on the iPad honors CSS media query declarations based on orientation."
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★ New Web Font Specimen
A note from Nice Web Type.
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★ Richard Fink for A List Apart
A note from Nice Web Type.
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May 2010
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★ Good Web Fonts
A note from Nice Web Type.
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★ Bulletproof smiley @font-face syntax
A note from Nice Web Type.
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★ One year later
A note from Nice Web Type.
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April 2010
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Fonts for iPad & iPhone
For your CSS font stacks, Michael Critz rounds up the typefaces installed on each device.
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Yes, add subpixel-hinting to your Photoshop text layers
Thomas Maier: "I saved my workflow as an Action. All of you can download and use it for free. But the trick has a downside, too: You receive three text-layers just for one piece of text. The reason for that is, that I needed to blend the different channels and it’s not even rasterizable."
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CSS3 Transforms & @font-face Experiment
Nice poster-like example of web type in use, by Alex Giron.
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★ Timelines
A note from Nice Web Type.
March 2010
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★ On the state of typography
A note from Nice Web Type.
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★ Some facts about web fonts
A note from Nice Web Type.
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The history of a model for fonts on the Web
SXSW presentation from Bert Bos, co-creator of CSS, on why we are where we are: "When W3C proposed to resurrect the Fonts Working Group in order to standardize the next version of EOT, the three browser makers [Opera, Mozilla, Apple] protested violently."
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TypeIt
"Type accent marks, diacritics and other characters online."
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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."
February 2010
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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."
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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."
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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."
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★ On leaving Vassar
A note from Nice Web Type.
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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.
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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."
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January 2010
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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."
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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."