Google fonts : tests de lisibilité Avant d’utiliser les polices proposées par Google dans le Google font directory, j’ai décidé de les tester une par une, sur OS-X et sur Windows afin d’évaluer leur lisibilité. Cet article propose un récapitulatif des résultats sous forme de pdf téléchargeable gratuitement (Français/Anglais) ainsi qu’une analyse détaillée… Webdesign et typographie 2010 aura incontestablement été l’année de la typographie sur le web. Le nombre de services dédiés (ou non d’ailleurs) à l’usage de polices sur le web (via @font-face) a explosé ces derniers mois (Typekit, FontDeck, Typotheque, FontsLive, Fontspring, TypeFront, Fonts.com, Ascender fonts, Kernest, Webink etc.) c’est un véritable raz-de marée d’outils au service du travail typographique sur le web. Dans ce que je peux comprendre du travail typographique d’un webdesigner, la base d’un caractère de labeur c’est avant tout d’être lisible sur plusieurs résolutions, systèmes d’exploitation, dans différents corps de texte etc. Evaluation de la lisibilité
7 great widgets to transform your website in 2015 Do you ever visit a website and wonder how it got all of those amazing 'extras' to work? The booking form, the calendar, or even the weather display? Many people assume that these kinds of bells and whistles require a web developer to put in place. But these days it's usually as simple as copying and pasting some text. Taking advantage of these tools can engage your visitors, offer valuable insights, and make a simple site much more functional. Subscription offer What are widgets? Applications that are embedded into the body of websites are called widgets. A widget adds functionality to your site by outsourcing the development of the application to a coder, instead of every site owner having to program it themselves. Let's take a look at some favourites... 01. It's no secret that email marketing is a cost-effective way of increasing conversion, sales, and brand awareness for your business, so definitely take advantage of it with either MailChimp or INinbox. 02. 03. 04. 05. 06. 07. Conclusion
How to Use Icon Fonts in Your Website Icon fonts are quickly becoming a web design trend and there is a good reason for that. Creating icons with icon fonts gives designers the ability to manipulate the icons with CSS. The days of creating two different icon images for rollovers or effects are long gone. Now we can easily change color, size, and even animate the icons just as we would most other HTML elements. Aside from giving designers and developers more control, icon fonts also offer many features that bitmap image icons simply do not. Because the icon is a font, it has the same properties as all other fonts. Here is a demonstration of how icon fonts look scaled up compared to bitmap icons. As you can see, the bitmap icons get pixelated while the vector font icons scale up fine and look as sharp and precise as they did in a smaller size. One other advantage we get with icon fonts is load time. So let’s go over how to implement icon fonts in your website. Step 1: Load The Font via @font-face This is the fun part.
Getting Started - Google Fonts This guide explains how to use the Google Fonts API to add fonts to your web pages. You don't need to do any programming; all you have to do is add a special stylesheet link to your HTML document, then refer to the font in a CSS style. A quick example Here's an example. Then open the file in a modern web browser. Making the Web Beautiful! That sentence is ordinary text, so you can change how it looks by using CSS. You should now see a drop shadow under the text: And that's only the beginning of what you can do with the Fonts API and CSS. Overview You can start using the Google Fonts API in just two steps: Add a stylesheet link to request the desired web font(s): Style an element with the requested web font, either in a stylesheet: or with an inline style on the element itself: For a list of fonts you can use, see Google Fonts. Specifying font families and styles in a stylesheet URL To determine what URL to use in your stylesheet link, start with the Google Fonts API base URL: For example:
10 new web tools to add to your armoury New year, new tools. That's what they say. Isn't it? Anyway, regardless of who says what, we've rounded up some of the niftiest web design tools that have generated a bleep on our radar recently. There's a range of interesting utilities here to help you get to grips with Material Design; work with SVG; develop web apps; communicate with colleagues; and make colour palettes, backgrounds, UI elements and plenty more. There's bound to be at least one tool here that will help you to do something in a quicker, simpler way. 01. Last summer one of the big announcements to come out of Google I/O was Material Design, a methodology for making web app designs work across desktop, tablet and mobile. Material Palette is a tool for creating colour palettes in the Material style. An example interface is built to show you how the palette looks in action, and it is downloadable in CSS, SASS, LESS, SVG, XML and PNG. 02. Subscription offer 03. 04. 05. snabbt.js Next page: 5 more web tools
Understanding The Difference Between Type And Lettering Medidas de la pantalla y resolución de teléfonos celulares y tabletas Tamaño de la pantalla, ancho y altura en pixeles, resoluciones, PPI, densidad, sistema operativo que usan y otros datos y especificaciones técnicas de los principales móviles Smartphone y tablets del mercado. Tablas con información de las principales características técnicas de la pantalla de los dispositivos portables más empleados en la actualidad. Las principales especificaciones físicas que nos pueden ayudar a decidirnos antes de comprar un dispositivo, para quedar completamente satisfechos. Datos útiles y necesarios para crear o diseñar las páginas web de forma tal que se muestren correctamente sus elementos en cualquier dispositivo portable. Tamaño y otros datos de las pantallas de los celulares La popularidad de los teléfonos y tabletas está determinada por los que usan los lectores para entrar a nuestro sitio web, no por su uso global. Tamaño y otros datos de las pantallas de las tabletas Términos técnicos usados Ancho/alto = Es la resolución de la pantalla.
The 15 Hottest Restaurants in Montreal, January 2015 - Eater Montreal Updated by Ian Harrison on Jan 8 2015, 1:02p The January 2015 Eater Montreal Heatmap welcomes a whopping eight new restaurants to the fold in the likes of Old Montreal, Saint-Henri, Downtown, and Westmount. Enjoy. The 15 Hottest Restaurants in Montreal, January 2015 1 Brasserie Harricana Brasserie Harricana is an homage to a bygone tavern in Amos, Quebec, that fell victim to a massive inferno in 2013. 95 Jean-Talon Ouest Montreal, QC H2R 2W8, Canada 2 Cirkus Toulouse native Julien Joré, formerly of Brunoise, 357c, Au Cinquième Péché and Au Petit Extra, is the owner and chef of this new restaurant in the old Pyrus Bistronomique. 1481 Laurier Est Montreal, QC H2J 1H8, Canada 3 Commerce The makeover of Bar & Boeuf from the MTL Cuisine restaurant group features a signature pub/wine bar menu from Pastaga owner and chef Martin Juneau. 500 McGill Montreal, QC H2Y 2H6, Canada 4 Harlow 438 Place Jacques Cartier Montreal, QC, Canada 5 Jatoba 1184 Place Phillips Montreal, QC H3B 3C8, Canada 6 Landry & Filles
Sans Serif Fonts: Most Popular Typefaces, Best for Webfonts As San Serif typefaces have only been around for about 100 years, it is necessary for designers or enthusiasts to have an understanding how it all came about. Based on known historical accounts, officially, modern sans serif has been created on 1816 by William Caslon IV at the English Type foundry. The English Egyptian Typeface is designed only in capital letters in 28 points. Nevertheless, Caslon was not fully convinced on the success of the English Egyptian. Design-wise, the very first sans-serif type bears no value. Then came; Akzidenz Grotesk created in Berlin at the German Berthold type foundry. Why grotesk / grotesque? When the first typefaces of this sort came about in the 1830, people first considered them as blatantly grotesque and due to their controversial appeal; they are a rarity in texts and other printed forms with an exception of advertising. Why sans Serif? The main appeal of Sans Serif would not be understood until the early 20th century. German influences Supria Sans Nexa