New @Font-Face Syntax: Simpler, Easier

02.07.2011

I love it when a plan comes together. Some months ago, in an an email exchange with Jeffrey Zeldman about the feasibility of a book about web fonts, I wrote that the turning point – the point at which enough would be known to establish best practices – would be around the time IE9 and [...]

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Best Practice For @Font-Face CSS Takes A Turn

01.31.2011

“Bulletproof ” is out, and “Mo’ Bulletproofer” is in. In the last few days, major players on the web fonts scene – Kernest and Font Squirrel – have moved from Paul Irish’s Bulletproof @Font-Face syntax to Richard Fink’s Mo’ Bulletproofer syntax as the default. Ethan Dunham, the developer behind Font Squirrel and Fontspring says: Mo’ Bulletproofer [...]

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Financial Power Shifting Through The Mobile Screen

01.11.2011

Peter-Paul Koch reports that mobile phones are poised to become the new medium for financial transactions, bringing the ease of electronic funds transfer to nearly everybody on earth. It’s been headed our way for awhile, and the impact it’s going to have can’t be overstated. It creates a window for new players in the world [...]

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Google Fonts Failing For Internet Explorer Users

01.10.2011

If Google isn’t going to take web fonts seriously, they should stay away. Slapping on a “Beta” label doesn’t excuse sloppiness or, worse, pursuing a hidden competitive agenda at the expense of users and developers. Now, I can’t know if Google Fonts is shortchanging IE users intentionally, but in light of the controversy over, say, [...]

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Waving Goodbye To Adobe InDesign

01.05.2011

Something feels different about this year. Borders bookstore is widely expected to file for bankruptcy and it’s hard not to read an end-of-an-era symbolism into that. Clay Shirky reports that the newspaper industry has, perhaps, finally come to grips with the idea that the web is not just another business avenue but a discontinuity that [...]

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A Cat With Gloves Off

01.01.2011

A Cat With Gloves Off The handsome gray haired gentleman with the enigmatic smile is me. And today I feel like explaining a few things about myself. It’s a New Year, you’re already here, and maybe a little trip down memory lane on my end of the blog deal might spark some thoughts on your [...]

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Kernest’s Konstellations

12.20.2010

Here’s a unique Christmas gift idea for the web designer you love. Web designer Garrick Van Buren – the man behind the web font service site Kernest – is offering a new way to explore web fonts and web typography using a template based approach. It’s called Konstellations. Konstellations: A Way Into Web Fonts Each [...]

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Web Font Follies

12.09.2010

I freely admit that typographic subtleties like Old-Style Numerals and Swashes don’t send a tickle up my leg. I’m not alone in that. Most web devs wouldn’t give a rat’s ass about those things even if they knew what they were. I asked one web developer if a font with just the Latin-1 characters was [...]

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Web Typography, Simply Smashing

11.20.2010

Lists of resources in bibliographies, footnotes, endnotes and the like have long been commonplace in print. And in the academic world, citations are a must. But in the bad old days before the web, unless you had an insane amount of time on your hands and a large first-rate library nearby, as a reader, such [...]

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Practical Font Design by David Bergsland

10.19.2010

Practical Font Design2nd Edition For Fontlab 5 If you’re looking for a brief, straightforward introduction to fonts, I recommend David Bergsland’s Practical Font Design. Unlike a lot of books that make you feel like you’re seated in the back row of a crowded lecture hall, this one feels like a private tutorial.Bergsland takes you inside [...]

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