As of a couple of minutes ago, this site has relegated the venerable sIFR to the dustbin of history, opting instead for the bright future of true custom fonts using the @font-face CSS declaration that has been around since 1998. Why it took so long for custom web fonts to become an in-browser reality is […]
Category Archives: Design
FontFriend 1.0 Released
June 23, 2009 – 9:00 am
I haven’t given FontFriend much attention since it was released, but I puttered around with it a bit over the weekend and figured that it deserves a proper 1.0 release now. If you’re already using the bookmarklet, you’re running the latest and greatest automatically. Features added in 1.0 include: a field for a custom font […]
Free Book From Jeffrey Zeldman
April 18, 2009 – 2:13 pm
Jeffrey Zeldman should need no introduction to anyone who works on designing and developing on the web. He wrote a book called Taking Your Talent to the Web in 2001 to help print designers transition to web design but, as it was released just in the midst of the dot-com crash, it didn’t do very well. […]
Is Spec Work OK?
March 25, 2009 – 4:43 pm
The makings of a Twitter-storm: FOWD Competition Irate Boulton Brilliant Zeldman My meager contribution
Soma FontFriend Bookmarklet Released
March 23, 2009 – 11:22 am
I’ve been inspired by a few different articles to experiment with font stacks, but I wanted a way to quickly see how different font families looked within the context of my design right in the browser. For instance, how well does Georgia work as a fallback for Constantia? (Pretty well.) How similar are Helvetica Neue […]