When I released FontFriend 3.1, I mentioned that Google Web Fonts didn’t have a proper API, making things difficult. They still don’t have a public API, but on Thursday I was given “trusted tester” access to the new API. It won’t look that much different, but there’ll be a few fonts working now that weren’t […]
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FontFriend 3.1 Loves Google Webfonts
May 13, 2011 – 12:07 pm
I’ve had a number of requests to better integrate Google Webfonts into FontFriend. They keep adding all these great fonts that anyone can use for free, and should be part of a tool like FontFriend. The trouble was that they didn’t have an API, making it difficult. More on that later, because I got it […]
FontFriend 3.0 Released
April 10, 2011 – 6:46 pm
I’m pleased to announce the immediate release of FontFriend 3.0, the Typekit integration edition. Invoking the bookmarklet on any Typekit-enabled page will automagically throw all the fonts in your kit into the custom families list. I’ve set up a demo page with FontFriend embedded and a big Typekit kit. My main imagined use-case for this feature […]
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 […]
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 […]