Flipping typical. 30 of the Best Font Foundries. Typography is one of the most important parts of any design, whether it’s digital or in print.
Good typography can take a mediocre design to new heights, while bad typography can make what would be a great design lackluster or even bad. For web designers, typography choices have long been limited to web-safe fonts. But that’s changed in recent years, first with the advent of things like sIFR that let you replace standard web fonts with Flash for headlines or other small blocks of text, and now with @font-face and web services for embedding fonts. Below we’ve collected thirty fantastic type foundries. The majority of these allow at least some kind of online, embedded use, either with Flash or with @font-face. You can always use fonts from these in images or graphics, either online or off. Web-Friendly Foundries The foundries included here have at least some provisions in their licensing agreements for using fonts on the web outside of images. The League of Movable Type.
Ubuntu Font Family. How to Add Cufon to your Web Pages. I’m a big fan of Woothemes.
It seems that each time they come out with a theme – they push the boundaries of web design. Take a look at their latest creation: Therapy – I can’t help but fall in love with the fine background gradients, smooth and seamless transparencies and nice rounded edges. But what I really like about Therapy is it’s amazing typography. I said to myself: “that’s excellent utilization of sIFR”. So I right clicked on a post title, expecting to see the “About Macromedia Flash” entry – but didn’t see it. I inspect element in Firebug – then I see span class “cufon” everywhere. So What in the world is Cufon? Cufon is defined as “fast text replacement with canvas and VML”. So I went ahead and tried Cufon. Step 1: Get Cufon The first thing you need is to download the core javascript file which is responsible for the rendering of your custom font inside your HTML. Step 2: Generate your Font The rest of the upload fields are optional. Step 3: Cufonize your Page Conclusion: Press75. Comment utiliser une fonte «non-standard» sur un site Web ?
Il est de notoriété publique que l'usage des fontes sur le Web est limité à une poignée de fontes non pas standardisées, mais suffisamment répandues pour pouvoir être utilisées sans trop de risques.
Et cela pour une raison très simple: la police de caractères que l'on souhaite utiliser doit être présente sur le système de l'utilisateur pour être utilisée par le navigateur. Quand @font-face tombe à l'eau CSS 2 (publié en 1998) comprenait un mécanisme qui autorisait les auteurs de pages web à proposer une fonte au téléchargement, fonte qui serait ensuite utilisée dans la page. Il s'agit de la règle @font-face. Mais celle-ci a été peu implémentée par les navigateurs, ou alors partiellement. Bulletproof @font-face syntax. Let me introduce you to the best way to do your @font-face definitions: This is the Fontspring @font-face syntax.
I’ll circle back to why this is the best possible solution but let’s first review the other techniques’ weaknesses. Of course, the problem at the center of this is that IE needs an .eot font, and the other browsers must take a .ttf or .otf. May 12th, 2010. If you’re looking to just put @font-face to use today, just head to FontSquirrel’s generator. Okay, let’s see what we got here… Conditional comments (via) Ugh. Double declarations (via) The problem here is that, as Andrea points out, IE will actually download the .otf file. Because after all, IE doesn’t understand the format hint, right? GraublauWeb.otf’)%20format(‘opentype Oops, looks like someone forgot a ?
Mo’ Bulletproofer (via) Richard Fink proposed this alternate syntax actually as a response to this post, but I’ve included it back here. The local reference. Create Your Own @font-face Kits. 22 Completely Free Fonts for @Font-Face Embedding. Are you getting bored of using the same old fonts in your websites?
If yes, then @font-face is the device that you are looking for. It allows you to embed any font according to your wish into the websites. This device is helpful to abolish the monotonous use of same fonts each time you create a website. It is extremely popular amongst the web designers and the reason is clearly understandable. The search of the web designer for the perfect headline grabbing fonts for various websites surely ends with the innovation of the technique. Web designing is a creative job and like any other creative job it asks for variations. @Font-Face embedding is the latest in the string of efforts.
The most important part of this is that these fonts can be availed for free from the internet. Colaborate Greyscale Basic Quicksand Open Sans Condensed News Cycle Latin Modern Sans Existence Light Lacuna Regular Josefin Sans Std CuprumFFU Droid Sans CartoGothic Std.