Category: Typography
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Live Today: Web Fonts Dialog
Update! Final audio and video are now available for your listening and viewing pleasure. Live today, Dan Benjamin and I grill Ethan Dunham of Fontspring and Font Squirrel and Jeffrey Veen of Typekit and numerous…
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More Mod on the Digital Book
A Reading Heatmap: Key passages illuminated by layering all readers’ highlights for the same text. LAST MONTH, he wowed us with Books in the Age of the iPad, a call to make digital books as…
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My Love/Hate Affair With Typekit
GEORGIA and Verdana, Lucida and (to a lesser extent) Arial and Times New Roman have served us well. For fifteen years, these cross-platform default fonts have been faithful stewards of our desire to read, write,…
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David Berlow Type Specimens
“A collection of David Berlow’s prolific typographic work as co-founder of Font Bureau is showcased in this impressive booklet, a celebration of him receiving the Society of Typographic Aficionados (SoTA) Typography Award in 2007. Specimen…
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60+ Free WordPress Themes
Via instantshift.com Pulling the trigger just got easier. Now anyone can have a beautifully designed, standards-compliant WordPress site. The 60-plus recently created free WordPress themes (AKA template collections) listed by InstantShift’s Daniel Adams are categorized…
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FontShop 51
In Behance Gallery: Find the latest FontFont Releases at the FontShop (50 and 51) or download the 64-page FIFTY|1 Release Magazine.
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Font Geek? There’s an app for that
If the geek on your list loves playing The Rather Difficult Font Game by Kari Pätilä, and if that geek owns an iPhone or iPod Touch, she will adore The Font Game app, created by…
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Fab Font Favelet
This is a bookmarklet made for web designers who want to rapidly check how different fonts and font styles look on their screen without editing code and refreshing pages. Download the amazing and oh-so-practical Soma…
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Am I Blue
The classic Zeldman orange avatar has gone blue to celebrate the release of Designing With Web Standards 3rd Edition.
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Links for a Thursday
Free tool to create EOT Lite webfonts; interview with CSS web comic whiz; Apple exonerated of censoring iPhone dictionary; “a new breed of documentary photographers.”
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Web fonts, HTML 5 roundup
Excellent, informative third-party posts on web fonts, CSS3, and HTML 5.
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Web Fonts Now, for real
David Berlow of The Font Bureau has proposed a Permissions Table for OpenType that can be implemented immediately to turn raw fonts into web fonts without any wrappers or other nonsense. If adopted, it will…
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iPhone wallpapers
For font freaks.
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Real fonts on the web, part 2
Introducing Typekit.
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.net interview
“There was a point in the 90s when I felt like a sucker for doing HTML and CSS.”