When Tim Brown released v2 of the Web Font Specimen (WFS) a few weeks back, he honoured me by asking for my feedback a couple of days before releasing it to the world. I had a couple of suggestions that he took into consideration but ultimately decided to leave aside. Since he licensed WFS with […]
Tim Brown released the Web Font Specimen in conjunction with his article Real Web Type in Real Web Context on A List Apart back in November. He updated it last week to v2 which is laser-focused on seeing what your type looks like in your browser. One very cool component of this release is that […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]