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 […]
Tag Archives: web design
Better Web Reading
January 3, 2011 – 12:23 pm
It’s damn hard to read web content sometimes. Too-small text, articles split over multiple pages, gratuitous banner ads, design that steals you attention from the actual content: these all conspire to make reading on the web—especially long-form content—frustrating, painful and sometimes downright infuriating. 2010 saw two major approaches to this come to some degree of […]
On the iPad and Web Design
January 29, 2010 – 10:33 am
As usual, Apple’s newest creation has produced opinions. The rhetoric of those for and against it is predictably strong and, occasionally, ridiculous. I don’t care to add my voice to the din. My attention is more fixated on the fact that if the iPad is successful, we’ll have to say goodbye to a whole host […]
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 […]