Style Considerations, Guidelines and Tips
Posted on: May 11, 2010 | Category: typography | 4 Comments
From inscriptions in stone to printed pages and digital images on the web, typography is still all about the effective transfer of information. Letterforms have evolved through history as the available technologies have evolved.
Stone-chiseled inscriptions and calligraphy on parchment gave way to the automated transfer of ink to paper as the related technologies of typesetting and printing matured. From inscriptions in stone to printed pages and digital images on [ read more .. ]
Why are Font-Stacks still so Important?
Posted on: May 4, 2010 | Category: typography | 7 Comments
Font Stacks are about creating a relevant and comprehensive list of fall-back fonts – based on aspect ratio, platforms, operation systems, etc. Also in these days of new techniques for type-replacement, they still are very important.
Definition and Usage
The font-family property specifies the font for an element.
The font-family property can hold several font names as a ‘ fall-back ‘ system. If the browser does not support [ read more .. ]
Hallo @font-face, .. nice to have met you!
Posted on: April 6, 2010 | Category: typography | 7 Comments
Having made websites till now where the typography mainly was based on websafe types, a new world had opened before me. A year ago or so I was thrilled when I heard about sIFR, Typekit, Cufon and all the other flash/javascript-based techniques for type-replacement in webdesign. But there always seemed to be some kind of problem with all these new techniques ..
A year and a half [ read more .. ]
Top 10 Fonts of 2009 (MyFonts.com)
Posted on: January 7, 2010 | Category: typography | 12 Comments
Every start of a new year I’m eagerly waiting for the newsletters of some of the Font-shops around the world, specially the newletter of MyFonts.com. And every year so far MyFonts come as first with their TOP10 Fonts of the past Year. Hereby the opinion of one of the better and well-known font-shops, … so, don’t shoot the messanger.
As for typography itself: the quest for [ read more .. ]
The Best Free Typefaces (‘fontfamilies’)
Posted on: December 23, 2009 | Category: typography | 6 Comments
Free Fonts versus Commercial Fonts? The question which to use will always stay among graphic designers. But the possibility to have a choice in different styles, loads of characters and symbols extra and no (well, almost none) license issues means that you probably choose for a commercial typeface.
But the good news is that the following free fonts don’t have these kind of problems typical for the majority of [ read more .. ]
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