Tag Archives: web fonts

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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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 […]

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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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