IE9 officially supports the new WOFF format for embedding webfonts. And there was much rejoicing. But, the question that’s been nagging away at me has been: how do we as web developers account for IE’s legacy EOT format while giving preferential treatment to the emerging WOFF standard? The short answer is: keep using Paul Irish’s […]
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Good Web Fonts
June 11, 2010 – 1:42 pm
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 […]
FontFriend in Print
May 2, 2010 – 7:04 pm
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 […]
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 […]