FontFriend got a little shoutout in this month’s issue of Print magazine. Thanks to Bev for letting me know! Print doesn’t seem to put much of their magazine’s content on their website, so I took the photo above. If you don’t feel like reading the grainy iPhone photo (no, I wasn’t about to spend $20 […]
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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 […]
Quix Bookmarklet
January 26, 2010 – 3:01 pm
Here’s something pretty cool — a meta-bookmarklet called Quix.app by Joost de Valk. It gives you access to dozens of functions and bookmarklets in one container. Invoke the bookmarklet and type, for instance, “gs where do babies come from” to run a Google search on the current site you’re viewing. There are oodles of goodies […]
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 […]
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 […]