One place for web typography, using our collective knowledge for the betterment of typographic style and practice.

Notes

I don’t know about you, but it takes me a while for stuff to sink in. When it comes to web typography, notes help.

This section is a place to hash out new ideas and mull over ideas we’ve found elsewhere.

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Bookmarks

Below are some bookmarks from the Nice Web Type account at Delicious, mixed with screenshots from our Flickr group.

January 2010

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

June 2009