I’m excited (and maybe a touch sad) to announce that I’m shuttering Soma Design to join the great, growing team at Automattic to help build the best publishing platform on the planet. As a Theme Engineer, I’ll be working with the brand-new Custom Design team to provide some awesome tools for customizing your WordPress.com theme […]
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FontFriend 3.2 Released: Now With More Google
June 6, 2011 – 10:28 pm
When I released FontFriend 3.1, I mentioned that Google Web Fonts didn’t have a proper API, making things difficult. They still don’t have a public API, but on Thursday I was given “trusted tester” access to the new API. It won’t look that much different, but there’ll be a few fonts working now that weren’t […]
FontFriend 3.1 Loves Google Webfonts
May 13, 2011 – 12:07 pm
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 […]
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 […]
Seth Godin Chooses The Erudite
December 9, 2010 – 7:53 pm
Seth Godin should need no introduction to anyone on the web. What might need introduction is his new venture called the Domino Project, in which he’s partnering with Amazon to rethink the fatally flawed current publishing model. And, to get it up and running, he’s running WordPress and a lightly tweaked version of The Erudite. […]