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Making Good Typography on the Web Easier: Google Introduces Font
Google just launched a font directory and a font API that will make it easier for web developers and publishers to use high-quality open source fonts on their sites. Good typography on the web is still in its infancy, but Google wants to make it easier for developers to use a wider variety of fonts on the Web that go beyond the standard set of "web-safe" fonts that come pre-installed on most modern computers. The Google Font API uses Google's infrastructure to automatically convert a font into the right format for whatever browser the user is using.Freebies
Component evokes the aesthetics of machine-readable matrix barcodes such as QR and Aztec codes, but it could just as easily invoke ancient rituals from a lost civilization. Component is a book-weight, condensed goemetric font with patterns of meaning that lie somewhere between mechanization and magic. And there’s a free italic. Adequate is a basic geometric sans serif typeface comprising 6 weights plus a free italic with each. The family has modern, workaday letterforms with a tall x-height for clarity and legibility.
Whether you're putting together a resume, flyer, or web page, everyone needs to find and compare fonts some time. Here are some tools that can help you find the perfect font. In all we're looking at a slate of excellent tools you can use to organize your fonts and identify and compare them; then we'll take a quick look at some great resources for downloading new fonts; and finally, we'll show you how you can make your own font, pixel-by-pixel or from your own handwriting. Organize and Preview Fonts Every operating system comes with a built-in font viewer and installer, but sometimes the out-of-the-box options don't cut it for serious font work. Take a look at a few alternatives.
Fonts: Killer Typography Tools and Free Font Downloads
Typography is a crucial component of a design. When used effectively, it sets the mood and solicits emotion about the design. Working with typography can be challenging, but fortunately, there is a plethora of free tools on the web that can help you work with type . In this article, you’ll find 20 tools for working with typography . You’ll find an assortment of tools that’ll help you with testing, identifying, sizing, and even making , fonts.
20 Useful Typography Tools
Preview and Compare All Your Installed Fonts Online
If you are writing a document or doing some design work, you may use Font Picker to preview and compare fonts on your computer. Font Picker is available as a free online application or you can install it on the desktop as well. Should I write the headline of this text in Arial, Times New Roman or use some uncommon font style like Adobe Garamond or Adobe Caslon? Picking the right font for your design work is not always easy especially when there are hundreds of different fonts installed on the computer. Some software like Microsoft Word, PowerPoint or Adobe Photoshop do provide a preview of all available fonts in a long scrolling drop-down but you can shortlist good fonts from that list. Enter Font Picker – a free online tool that lets you preview text written in all installed fonts on your computer to help you choose the best font for a particular job.WASHINGTON — Politics without buzzwords is like sports without clichés, math without numbers or Blago without bleeps. Tough to imagine, in other words, especially in such a game-changer of a campaign year in which buzzwords were flying like shoes. Buzzwords are what political wiseguys use to sound all important and knowing in a profession whose prime currency is the illusion of being both.
The Buzzwords of 2008 - NYTimes.com
More Entries From End of the Day Digests Rest of the Best: for November 2 2009 If you've had a busy day and didn't have time to keep up with the best web design and development articles, here are the... (November 2, 2009) For a Friday: Numbered List Round-up There is never any shortage of numbered lists out there in the webdev blogosphere.
Today's 10 Best : etc: a stream of geek consciousness
Jeffrey Zeldman rounds of our 2008 season with some hard-earned advice for web designers and developers to take into 2009. As the economic climate gets tougher and budgets get cut, our skills need to extend to staying in work, not just completing work won. Impress your friends with your recession resilience Andy Clarke rides into town to remind us of the importance of having a proper contract in place between those providing a service (usually us) and our clients commissioning the work. Projects that don’t run to plan are a fact of life, so make sure you’re prepared.
24 ways: 2008
Today's List of Lists Round-up: etc: quick links to good st
1. From Six Revisions, over 40 cheat sheets for designers. "Whether you need to learn something quickly or need a quick refresher on how to do certain tasks, cheat sheets allow you to do either one with relative ease. Print them out and decorate your workspace or save/bookmark them for later use, whichever way suits you best." 3. From Smashing Magazine (in case you didn't see it already), 100 Free High-Quality XHTML/CSS Templates .
screedbot - make your own scrolling typewriter text
Welcome to screedbot , the animated scrolling typewriter text generator. Write some text and click Create Screed to make your own animated text.The fonts presented on this page are their authors' property, and are, to the best of our knowledge, either freeware, shareware, demo versions or public domain. If anyone knows otherwise please notify us. All fonts have been collected from around the web, and are maintained with all files intact.