Zeldman Says: Web-Licensed Fonts From Font Bureau Soon
It only took calling Jeffrey Zeldman a font pirate, to find out this delicious slice of news about web fonts:
You will soon be able to purchase web-licensed fonts directly from Font Bureau’s online store. You can’t do that quite yet. I pulled some strings. Okay, I begged. And some Polaroids might have been involved.
Kidding aside, you [...]
The Questionable Legality Of Web Fonts
Font options for webdesigners are increasing these days. There’s the imminent release of Firefox 3.5, which hails the arrival of embeddable fonts of your choice. There’s Typekit, a tool to ease the addition of the former (and some more). There’s sIFR, the so-far most adopted choice, and there’s also Cufon, a novel approach to the [...]
CSS3 Web Fonts Arrives With Firefox 3.1?
Smashing Magazine annoys me to no end with their formulaic blogging. Once in a while though, nuggets of worthwhile float to the top, in this case, a rather visual look at how CSS3 can make a webdesigners life easier. Pay attention to the mention of the CSS3 @font-face property which would allow us to to [...]
Arial or Helvetica?
Arial or Helvetica? Take the quiz
I got a 6/10. Those two fonts are even more similar than I remembered them to be.
The Curse of Sin City
On the use of Comic Sans as typography for Sin City movie posters.
Reconsidering sIFR
While sIFR works magic, it falls short in a few places. Enough to switch back?
Rich Text Headlines with sIFR – Experiences
With sIFR, you can replace the font for your boring headlines with a font of your choice.
Trying Out sIFR For Show
As an experiment, headlines on this website are now in Flash.
Font Management Solution: Bitstream Font Navigator
I present to you: Bitstream Font Navigator 5. From Corel.