Tag Archives: web fonts

Subsetted Fallback Fonts

November 12, 2009 – 9:18 am

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 […]

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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 (you’re not […]

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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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