Nice Web Type

• "Smiley" bulletproof @font-face syntax

  Paul Irish with a subtle, happy revision to everybody's favorite @font-face syntax: "There has been concern over specifying local font names. [...] This technique is recommended if you think a locally installed version of this font is not in your best interest." Feb 8

• Arrivals | Development Status | Cultured Code
  Feb 4
• AIGA Design Archives
  Feb 4 – thx Typegirl!
• AIGA Design Archives
  Feb 4 – thx Typegirl!

• Revised Font Stack

  Amrinder Sandhu eyeballs, checks statistics, and comments on font stacks from popular sites like Facebook, I Love Typography, and Jon Tangerine. Don't miss the bulleted list of "Notes" about halfway down. Feb 4

• Fontspring

  "All of the fonts on Fontspring that are marked as '@Font-Face Ready' can be downloaded and used in your websites without recurring subscription costs. [...] Our best license allows you the designer to use the fonts in an unlimited number of domains under your control. Other fonts must be purchased by the number of domains you expect to use them on." Feb 3

• Fontanel - Online Design Magazine
  Feb 2 – thx Typegirl!
• Moment
  Feb 1 – thx Typegirl!
• Simon Collison | Colly | The Celebrated Miscellany
  Feb 1 – thx Typegirl!
• Limited edition design and typography products for refined tastes – Ligature, Loop & Stem
  Feb 1 – thx Typegirl!

January 2010

• Text-Shadow Anti-Aliasing

  Philip Renich: "I'm really not a big fan of how Windows usually handles [type rendering], so I decided to try to do something about it." Jan 28

• Giraffe Restaurants - Love Eat Live
  Jan 28

• Users Report Fuzzy Fonts In Evernote 3.5

  Richard Fink: "This isn't the first and it won't be the last time Windows users get upset over changes in font rendering. I'm expecting to see a lot of it in the next few years as Microsoft continues to push WPF and moves to its DirectWrite API instead of GDI for ordinary text rendering." Jan 24

• Verdana Pro and Georgia Pro

  Bill Davis: "We are extending each family to 20 fonts. We are creating a Light, Semibold, and Black (each with matching italics), and we are creating a new Condensed family with all the same weights and styles." Jan 21

• NY Times: Typeface Designers Wrestle With the World of Pixels

  "'We have lots of ideas, some have to do with design and some have to do with the technology that delivers the font,' Mr. Hoefler said. 'That's the secret formula we can't talk about yet.'" Jan 12

• Font Hinting Explained By A Font Design Master

  Richard Fink consults John Hudson on typeface hinting and formats. Jan 11

• TextMod 2.1

  Multilingual placeholder text for testing language support in fonts. Jan 2

• Browser Choice vs Font Rendering

  Thomas Phinney on the interplay among Windows browser text rendering and font smoothing settings. Jan 2

December 2009

• Real Fonts and Rendering: The New Elephant in the Room

  Jeffrey Zeldman for 24ways: "Put simply, even fonts optimized for web use [...] will not look good in every browser and OS. That's because every browser treats hinting differently, as does every OS, and every OS version." Dec 22

• Spruce It Up

  Jonathan Snook for 24ways: "Can we optimize a font like we can an image? Yes. Image optimization essentially works by removing unnecessary image data such as colour data, hidden comments or using compression algorithms. How do you remove unnecessary information from a font? Subsetting." Dec 18

• Soma FontFriend

  Matt Wiebe: "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." Dec 17

• Designing For The Switch

  Mark Boulton for 24ways: "When we embed a typeface, we must look very carefully at the typefaces in the font stack and the relationship between them. Because, previously, the user would not see a switch from one typeface to another, they'd just get either one or the other. Not both. With FOUT, the user sees two typefaces." Dec 16

• Azbuka CSS Typographical Base Rendering Library

  Vladimir Carrer: "There is almost no typography book that is not talking about the golden proportion. I was very skeptical about this rule in the beginning, but now I truly believe that there is something magical about this number. For me the golden proportion is mathematical search for beauty." Dec 14

November 2009

• staff reklamná agentúra / vo výstavbe / under reconstruction!
  Nov 24 – thx xants2355!
• TIPOITALIA
  Nov 5
• School of Visual Arts — MFA in Interaction Design
  Nov 4 – thx Typegirl!
• Glue • Simple Publishing
  Nov 4 – thx Typegirl!
• Glyphish – Great icons for great iPhone applications
  Nov 4 – thx Typegirl!
• Reinvented - Golden Krishna
  Nov 2

June 2009

• poolinquinamento_it
  Jun 22 – thx Typotheque!
• risd_generic_cx
  Jun 22 – thx Typotheque!
• objectsinspaceandtime_com
  Jun 22 – thx Typotheque!
• bellafigura_com
  Jun 22 – thx Typotheque!
• indesigning_net
  Jun 22 – thx Typotheque!
• type-applications_com
  Jun 22 – thx Typotheque!