Choosing web fonts: 15 expert tips Over the last few years, the possibilities for using type on the web have expanded enormously. In the bad old days of the web, designers were restricted to a few 'web safe' fonts, which meant everything looked pretty much the same, or using images to replace the type – a clunky solution that caused problems for the reader and technical problems in the browser. Nowadays, though, you can access an astonishing array of professional typefaces for use on your sites, bringing the aesthetics of print design to the web. Since around 2010, widespread support of @font-face in all the major browsers, plus a new web open font format, WOFF, has led to a technical revolution and the rise of a number of web font hosting services. Tim Brown is the type manager at Typekit. 01. 02. Once free from traditional 'web safe' fonts like Verdana and Georgia, make design choices based on the typefaces you use. 03. The web may move at lightning speed, but quality typesetting requires lots of patience. 04. 05. 06.
The League of Moveable Type 25 High Quality Free Fonts for Professional Designs Sometimes, the best things in life are free – fonts are a great example of this concept. There are many typography designers and type foundries that choose to share their beautiful creations to the public. In this collection, you’ll find some of the best free and high-quality sans serif fonts for clean and professional designs that you can download on the web. 1. Nevis Download: Ten by Twenty (ZIP) 2. Download: Danmarks Medie (ZIP) 3. Download: The League of Moveable Type (ZIP) 4. Download: SMeltery (ZIP, read EULA first) 5. Download: Typophile (ZIP) 6. Download Page: MyFonts 7. Download: TrueType/OpenType Tools (ZIP) 8. Download: deviantART (ZIP) Download: freedesktop.org (TAR) 10. Download: The Crud Factory (ZIP) 11. Download Page: MyFonts 12. Download: The League of Moveable Type (ZIP) 13. Download Page: MyFonts 14. Download: Tiro Typeworks (Windows/OSX TTF) 15. advent font Download: deviantART (ZIP) 16. Download: SMeltery (ZIP, read EULA first) 17. Download: deviantART (ZIP) 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23.
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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
Text Rotation with CSS Once again, after reading somebody else's article, I felt inspired to put together an alternative example. In this case: Text Rotation. Within the article I linked to, the example uses an image sprite and a sprinkle of CSS to get things positioned right. Well, maybe not so much a sprinkle. It's like the top fell off the pepper shaker and you've suddenly got a large pile of pepper on your food. It makes me want to sneeze. Thankfully, many of the popular browsers of today support the ability to rotate HTML elements. <div class="example-date"><span class="day">31</span><span class="month">July</span><span class="year">2009</span></div> Nice and clean without too many extras. The Magical CSS For Webkit and Firefox (as of 3.5), you can take advantage of the proposed transform property to handle the rotation. -webkit-transform: rotate(-90deg); -moz-transform: rotate(-90deg); In order to perform a transformation, the element has to be set to display:block. In action
Cariadoc's Miscellany: The Perfect Armor [This is an article from Cariadoc's Miscellany. The Miscellany is Copyright (c) by David Friedman and Elizabeth Cook, 1988, 1990, 1992. For copying details, see the Miscellany Introduction.] [ See also the new version of this article, The Perfect Armor (Improved). ] Suppose you were drawing up specifications for the perfect armor. Hardened leather, also known as courbouilli, meets all of those requirements. In this essay, I will describe how to make several pieces of armor out of hardened leather: a bazuband (a medieval Islamic forearm and elbow protector), a klibanion (Byzantine body armor), a gauntlet and a basket hilt. To start, you need some leather. The thickness of leather is defined in ounces per square foot. Before you start making hardened leather armor, let me give you three warnings. The second warning is that wax can burn-which is why it is used to make candles. My final warning is to remind you that the bag that separates your inside from your outside is made of leather.
Make a homepage in minutes 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:
25 Font Management Tools Reviewed | Developer's Toolbox If you are one of those people who work with fonts on regular basis, then choosing, comparing and analyzing fonts is a serious business for you. Font management is not always as easy as a walk on the cake. Font management issues like installing and uninstalling fonts, handling missing fonts, taking care of font conflicts always keep graphic designers and typographers on their toes. Also hundreds or thousands of fonts activated on the system can use up considerable amount of system resources which in turn reduces efficiency and productivity. Mac, Windows and Linux platforms have their own font management utilities, but these utilities are not sufficient in a specialized or professional environment. Below we have reviewed 25 free/commercial font managers for Mac, Windows and Linux. Suitcase (Win) / Suitcase Fusion (Mac) Link Suitcase Fusion2 (Mac) and Suitcase3 (Win) are powerful, quick and clever font managers which have a simple and an intuitive user interface. Main features:
27 of History's Strangest Inventions by Maria Popova If you can’t deliver the newspaper on your amphibious bicycle, you can always fax it. “If at first an idea is not absurd,” Albert Einstein famously said, “then there is no hope for it.” Sometimes, however, absurd is just absurd — yet, even so, it’s a fascinating slice of history’s collective direction of curiosity and experimental innovation. One-wheel motorcycle Germany, 1925 Manual dredger Workers operated the so-called bucket dredger with their arms and legs using stepper boards. Bike tyre used as a swimming aid Invented by Italian M. Steam automobile design circa 1845 Amphibious bicycle This land-and-water bike can carry a load of 120 pounds; Paris, 1932 All-terrain car This all-terrain car can descend slopes up to 65 degrees; England, 1936. Radio stroller Stroller equipped with a radio, including antenna and loudspeaker, to keep the baby quiet; USA, 1921. Wooden bathing suits Wooden bathing suits, supposed to make swimming a lot easier; Hoquiam, Washington, USA, 1929 Ice sailboat
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