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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Lessn Shortlinks WordPress Plugin

January 15, 2011 – 1:00 pm

I recently pur­chased the somad.es domain for use with my own URL short­ener. (Van­ity or own­ing my own URLs: you decide.) I decided to use Alan Hogan’s Lessn More, an improved fork of Shaun Inman’s Lessn. I then decided I wanted to inte­grate the short­link into my Word­Press install, but the exist­ing WP Lessn plugin […]

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