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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Testing Shows IE9 Beta Greedy For Web Fonts

10.11.2010

The first release of IE9 Beta has some serious flaws in it’s @font-face web font support. I’ve stopped testing until the next release. A programmer on the IE team graciously took the time to respond to an email about it. He said that many of the problems have already been fixed and that the next [...]

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The Look That Says Book – On AListApart

09.07.2010

An article I wrote about Hypenation & Justification in web design was published on AListApart today. Titled: The Look That Says Book. Please visit the comments page and weigh in on how you feel about the current level of support for hyphenation and justification in browsers. Do you think H&J is important? Not? OK, then what? I’d like to [...]

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Destination Web At ATYPI

09.05.2010

As someone who writes a lot about fonts and typography, I joined some professional associations. In addition to SOTA, which I joined last year, I am also a new member of ATYPI, the Association Typographique Internationale. ATYPI’s annual conference is being held in Dublin, Ireland. I proposed giving a talk on Web Font formats, and [...]

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Typedia: A Font Resource In The Making

08.30.2010

Last year sometime, Typedia showed up on the radar here at Readable Web. I wasn’t quite sure what to make of it, frankly. No tag line. What’s the focus? What’s the angle? But the people behind it had gravitas in the world of web so I figured maybe I was missing something. I kept an [...]

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WOFF Support In Chrome Starts Up

08.28.2010

WOFF web fonts are now live in Version 6 Beta of Chrome for Win XP, Win 7, and MAC OS X, as well. Days away? A week away? Version 6 Beta seems pretty stable. A simple test page. Here is an image of what you should see in any browser if WOFF support is there:

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PT Sans, An Excellent Free Font For Screen

08.22.2010

Alexandra Korolkova of ParaType spoke at TypeCon 2010 about two new freely licensed fonts: PT Sans and PT Serif. They were commissioned by the Russian government. PT Sans is available for download and PT Serif will be released later this year. Alexandra writes: “In 2009, the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications commissioned the [...]

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John Daggett On CSS3 At TypeCon, 2010

08.22.2010

John Hudson of Tiro Typeworks and Christopher Slye of Adobe arranged a briefing – a guide to the perplexed – by Firefox developer and editor of the W3C CSS3 Fonts Module, John Daggett. John Daggett has kindly posted his slides. Dave Crossland has kindly posted his notes. Photos of the event are posted in an [...]

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