Tag Archives: @font-face

Good Web Fonts

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 […]

FontFriend in Print

FontFriend got a little shoutout in this month’s issue of Print magazine. Thanks to Bev for letting me know! Print doesn’t seem to put much of their magazine’s content on their website, so I took the photo above. If you don’t feel like reading the grainy iPhone photo (no, I wasn’t about to spend $20 […]

Subsetted Fallback Fonts

I recently launched thatwasnotok.com, a humourous take on how to handle social un-graces. One of the fun parts of designing and building the site was the freedom to work with a font like Chunk without resorting to embedding it in images or using sIFR or Cufon. I showed it to Tim Brown from Nice Web […]

That Was Not OK

The Idea Have you ever found yourself in a social setting where someone’s inadequate social skills cause consternation to everyone around them? Of course you have. Have you ever wished there was a way to discreetly tell them that their behaviour is not OK? Now you can. That Was Not OK is here to help. […]