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 […]
Tag Archives: web fonts
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 […]
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 […]