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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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 @font-face syntax. […]
Realistic CSS3 Buttons Redux
May 11, 2010 – 5:14 pm
A couple of weeks ago I posted Realistic Looking CSS3 Buttons, in which I tried to make awesome-looking CSS3 buttons that required no extra markup. For people who like more code and less talk, the end of the post has the link to the demo. As awesome as they were, they required an explicit width. This […]
Realistic Looking CSS3 Buttons
April 19, 2010 – 11:06 am
UPDATE: I published Realistic CSS3 Buttons Redux to make even better buttons. A while back Mike Rundle posted the terrific article Crafting Subtle & Realistic User Interfaces. He clearly articulates design details which make buttons look realistic and therefore push-able. If you haven’t read it, go there, spend lots of time looking at his excellent […]
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 […]