Tag Archives: typography

Intro to Webfonts Presentation

January 12, 2012 – 9:54 am

I talked about web­fonts at the Jan­u­ary edi­tion of the Win­nipeg Word­Press meet­up. The slides are not that inter­est­ing, par­tic­u­lar­ly out of the con­text of the pre­sen­ta­tion, but here you go: And, here’s the links from the last slide in click­able form: http://blog.typekit.com/2010/10/15/type-rendering-operating-systems/ http://www.typotheque.com/articles/hinting http://www.fontslive.com/info/typography/web-font-quality.aspx http://www.lucasfonts.com/fonts/thesans/thesans-office/features/ http://cl.ly/9PBw http://www.freetype.org/ttfautohint/ https://github.com/typekit/webfontloader/ http://somadesign.ca/projects/fontfriend/

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Improve Windows Type Rendering With ttfautohint

August 22, 2011 – 11:48 am

In a stroke of genius, Wern­er Lem­berg has start­ed the ttfau­to­hint project, which repur­pos­es FreeType’s auto­hint­ing sys­tem to auto­mat­i­cal­ly hint True­Type fonts for improved Win­dows ren­der­ing. While no auto­hin­ter will be able to match the eye and skills of a man­u­al hin­ter, ttfau­to­hint pro­vides real world improve­ments, some­times dra­mat­i­cal­ly. For exam­ple, I’m work­ing as a […]

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Web Typography Pain Points

March 29, 2011 – 2:45 pm

When I launched mattwie.be, I said that I had some things to say about the state of CSS typo­graph­ic con­trols. I’m mak­ing good on that threat. Things have come a long way from too-long mea­sures of Times New Roman on a mid-gray back­ground, but CSS still lags behind page lay­out soft­ware in many areas, which […]

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Redesign of mattwie.be

March 16, 2011 – 3:07 pm

I just launched my redesign of my per­son­al blog mattwie.be (for­mer­ly mattwiebe.com) and I could­n’t be hap­pi­er to final­ly have it live. This is a full-cir­­cle moment for me, as tweak­ing my blog (first on Blog­ger, lat­er on Word­Press) was what launched me into web devel­op­ment. After see­ing that I could pro­duce bet­ter code and […]

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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 […]

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