Category Archives: News

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 […]

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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 […]

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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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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. […]

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Panic Goes Nuts

May 28, 2009 – 1:31 am

Well, maybe not, but the folks at Panic have just ini­ti­ated a 50% off sale. Of par­tic­u­lar inter­est for web design­ers and/or devel­op­ers are their lovely Trans­mit (best FTP client ever) and Coda (one win­dow web devel­op­ment) offerings.

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