I’ve had a number of requests to better integrate Google Webfonts into FontFriend. They keep adding all these great fonts that anyone can use for free, and should be part of a tool like FontFriend. The trouble was that they didn’t have an API, making it difficult. More on that later, because I got it […]
Author Archives: Matt
FontFriend 3.0 Released
April 10, 2011 – 6:46 pm
I’m pleased to announce the immediate release of FontFriend 3.0, the Typekit integration edition. Invoking the bookmarklet on any Typekit-enabled page will automagically throw all the fonts in your kit into the custom families list. I’ve set up a demo page with FontFriend embedded and a big Typekit kit. My main imagined use-case for this feature […]
Web Typography Pain Points
March 29, 2011 – 2:45 pm
When I launched mattwie.be, I said that I had some things to say about the state of CSS typographic controls. I’m making good on that threat. Things have come a long way from too-long measures of Times New Roman on a mid-gray background, but CSS still lags behind page layout software in many areas, which […]
Redesign of mattwie.be
March 16, 2011 – 3:07 pm
I just launched my redesign of my personal blog mattwie.be (formerly mattwiebe.com) and I couldn’t be happier to finally have it live. This is a full-circle moment for me, as tweaking my blog (first on Blogger, later on WordPress) was what launched me into web development. After seeing that I could produce better code and […]
The Definitive @font-face Syntax
February 3, 2011 – 3:51 pm
UPDATE: The syntax has already been improved to favour IE9 loading WOFF instead of EOT, thanks to some sleuthing by the CSS Ninja. UPDATE 2: The syntax now uses a ? instead of a # because local IE requests choked on the #. Ethan Dunham of Font Squirrel and Fontspring fame has just released the definitive @font-face syntax. […]