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The New Web Font Specimen

June 24, 2010 – 9:49 am

Tim Brown released the Web Font Spec­i­men in con­junc­tion with his arti­cle Real Web Type in Real Web Con­text on A List Apart back in Novem­ber. He updat­ed it last week to v2 which is laser-focused on see­ing what your type looks like in your brows­er. One very cool com­po­nent of this release is that […]

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The Erudite 2.7 Released

June 20, 2010 – 12:58 pm

Word­Press 3.0 was released last week (and there was much rejoic­ing). I received a few bug reports about my inte­gra­tion with the new nav menus — essen­tial­ly if you did­n’t have a nav menu in use yet, you’d see a weird extra box in your main menu area. I also did the long-over­­due task of combing […]

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Good Web Fonts

June 11, 2010 – 1:42 pm

This isn’t “new” news, but in the web­font wild west, qual­i­ty might pass you by. One large prob­lem with web­fonts is that the qual­i­ty of most fonts that are suit­ably licensed for web­font embedding—in oth­er words, free fonts—is not that high. Ser­vices such as Type­kit remain the pre­dom­i­nant way to get your hands on high-quality […]

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