Tag Archives: font stacks

FontFriend 2.5

January 11, 2011 – 7:51 pm

Font­Friend was designed and coded as dur­ing the twi­light of the pre-webfont era. In fact, it was abstracted out of some code I’d been using while devel­op­ing the CSS font stacks for my Word­Press theme The Eru­dite. I haven’t been using it much as of late, as I’ve been wear­ing my devel­oper hat more than […]

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Good Web Fonts

June 11, 2010 – 1:42 pm

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 […]

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FontFriend 2.2 Update

April 21, 2010 – 11:36 am

This is a two-fold small update to Font­Friend, the typo­graph­i­cally obsessed web designer’s best friend. A request came in over Twit­ter for inline styles in the Font Fam­ily sec­tion. Good idea, and it’s now in there. It’s also a small update because Font­Friend is even smaller — I’m now mini­fy­ing it (using YUI Com­pres­sor), which brings […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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