When Tim Brown released v2 of the Web Font Specimen (WFS) a few weeks back, he honoured me by asking for my feedback a couple of days before releasing it to the world. I had a couple of suggestions that he took into consideration but ultimately decided to leave aside. Since he licensed WFS with […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
First off, it’s been a wild ride since The Erudite was made a featured theme in the WordPress.org themes directory. It went from about 20 downloads a day to over 200! With it has come an increase in bug reports and a some help with more translations. I hope that all of these downloads means […]