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Create Your Own @font-face Kits. Pourquoi la comic sans MS est elle la typo la plus haïe au monde ? Posté le 11. avr, 2011 par Bango in Inspiration , Internet , Typographie Si Internet était une école, la police de caractère Comic Sans MS serait le souffre douleur de tout l’établissement.

Pourquoi la comic sans MS est elle la typo la plus haïe au monde ?

Ceux qui l’utilisent subissent régulièrement les quolibets des graphistes et autres designers de bon goût, à cause de sa pauvreté esthétique et fonctionnelle. Pourtant, ce n’est pas la seule typo hideuse existante, il y en a des biens pires. Alors pourquoi tant de haine ? Petit rappel historique : La Comic Sans MS est une police de caractères populaire créée par Vincent Connare (ça ne s’invente pas) pour la société Microsoft en 1995. Comic Sans MS, les raisons de son impopularité : Elle est sensée représenter une écriture manuscrite enfantine, inspirée de la bande dessinée, mais la bande dessinée dont elle s’inspire est aujourd’hui dépassée et ringarde ; C’est même le symbole de l’enseigne du commerce ringard par excellence.

Cette typo n’a pas de déclinaison. C’est toujours ça de pris pour les mac user ; @font-face. Our Google Announcement :( Google have recently announced that they are also entering the web-font market - with the same free, hosted model as ours.

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Although we have put 100's of hours into the design, development and readying of 150+ fonts (x4 formats = 600!) , with only weeks before font-face.com was ready to go live, we have decided to bow out now. A bitter blow to the team. Our decision has not been easy. The last thing we would want is to host fonts for everyone to link to, only to at some point (after google have beaten us) be forced to turn them off - destroying your website designs. So as not do disappoint you in the future, we have decided to stop now.

Font-face.com will still be the home of everything font-face, just not in the original way it was intended. Thanks The font-face.com Team x x @font-face is a css rule which allows you to download a particular font from your server to render a webpage if the user hasn't got that font installed. For instance: Didn't see any difference? Test de @font-face sur les diff?rents navigateurs. Web fonts with @font-face. Home / CSS3 Previews / Web fonts with @font-face Not exactly a feature which is new to CSS3, @font-face was first proposed for CSS2 and has been implemented in Internet Explorer since version 5!

Web fonts with @font-face

However, their implementation relied on the proprietary Embedded Open Type (.eot) format, and no other browsers decided to use this format. With the release of Safari 3.1, however, website makers can use any licensed TrueType (.ttf) or OpenType (.otf) font in their pages. 48 Brilliant Free Fonts For Logo And Web Designers In 2010.

15 Fresh High-Quality Free Fonts - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement Every now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview.

15 Fresh High-Quality Free Fonts - Smashing Magazine

The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current projects. We search for them and we find them, so you don’t have to. In this selection we’re glad to present you Junction, Nadia Serif, Nilland, CartoGothic Std, Bergamo Std, Comic Serif, Birra Stout, Vegur and a couple of other high-quality free fonts. Please read the license agreements carefully before using the fonts — the license can change from time to time. 15 Fresh High-Quality Free Fonts Junction4 [ Download the .zip-package ] Designed by Caroline Hadilaksono, Junction is a humanist sans-serif typeface. “Inspired by my favorite humanist sans serif typefaces, such as Meta, Myriad, and Scala, Junction is where the best qualities of serif and sans serif typefaces come together. Bonus: Eco Font and Flaminia Type System It's done. Font Viewer - myFontbook.com.

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50 Excellent Free Handwritten Fonts. Diavlo - a free font from exljbris Font Foundry. Diavlo free font Diavlo is a free font that contains 5 weights: Light, Book, Medium, Bold and Black.

Diavlo - a free font from exljbris Font Foundry

You can also take a look at this pdf voor more detail. Free download Mac & PC (OpenType) Download. Please do not refer to this download link, only to this page. 30 New Free High-Quality Fonts - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement Every now and then we look around, select fresh high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview.

30 New Free High-Quality Fonts - Smashing Magazine

The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually time you should be investing in your current projects. We search for them and find them so that you don’t have to. In this selection, we’re pleased to present Piron, Nobile, St Marie, Code, Arcus, Crimson Text, Quadranta, Juice, Prociono, Mr Jones, Ibarra Real and various useful symbol fonts. Please note that some fonts are for personal use only and are clearly marked as such. Free dingbats fonts.