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It seems like every couple months, news of another interesting student print project trickles out of Knoxville.
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Irma Text is a fluid Sans-serif typeface which balances two contradictory construction principles.
Typotheque type foundry - high quality fonts for print and web
The Incredible Em & Elastic Layouts with CSS — Jon Tan 陳
A lmost a year ago, Ty Gossman over at Stylegala asked me to write an article about elastic layouts. The best I could do was a quick email between work. I always meant to come good on that.
T he sheer number of fonts out there ( MyFonts.com sells over fifty-five thousand) is a testament to the fact that there are nearly an infinitude of creative choices that can be made when designing a font. Of course there are the basics: serif vs. sans serif (and the numerous subcategories of each of these); handwritten vs. precision print-quality; wide vs. narrow; bold vs. light. But beyond these obvious choices are some specifics you may not have thought of:
So you want to create a font. Part 2 | I love typography, the typography and fonts blog
Making Geometric Type Work | Typography Commentary | Typographica
The intention of creating an entire alphabet from a few shapes is a design challenge — problem solving at its purest. For those with minimalist tendencies, the temptation is to strip away all the decoration and produce a simpler form. With software such as FontStruct and Font Constructor — which allow the user to quickly assemble a font from a set of geometric elements — this approach is now easier and more accessible than ever. Luckily for those who make a career from type design, the Latin alphabet is not simply a collection of modular elements.
Joseph Pearson also points out that on slower machines (such as mobile devices) it can negatively impact page load when applied to large blocks of text. In Safari 5, when using a measurement type of ex on the margin , padding , border-width or outline-width properties causes the browser to crash. See his demo page here: (warning: this will crash safari, obviously) http://quorning.net/safari_crash.htm
Cross-browser kerning-pairs & ligatures
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Cufón aims to become a worthy alternative to sIFR , which despite its merits still remains painfully tricky to set up and use. To achieve this ambitious goal the following requirements were set:Free fonts have met their match. We know how hard it is to find quality freeware that is licensed for commercial work.
Font Squirrel | Handpicked free fonts for graphic designers with commercial-use licenses.
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What is an EM?
PXtoEM.com: PX to EM conversion made simple.
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