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 […]
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 […]
The Erudite 2.6.1 Released
May 26, 2010 – 9:14 am
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 […]
Smarter Custom Post Types 1.3
May 19, 2010 – 11:47 am
Firstly, you can now find everything at its own project page: Smarter Custom Post Types. Updating the original post every time I edited something wasn’t awesome. In 1.3 I tweaked the label UI handling to work properly with recent updates to label handling for custom post types, and cleaned up the code a bit. Go […]