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 […]
Tag Archives: font family
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 […]
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 […]