Comments on: ❡ Nice Web Type likes Bello Pro and Proxima Nova

By: Rapid Prototyping

Rapid Prototyping — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 01:35:29 +0000

The use of Type kit is really wonderful and the specimen looks fabulous. It is good that you examined the combination of web type from the thoughtful critique. It was really an intelligent idea. Your description on using the Type kit is easy to understand and I am thinking to work more on it for some innovations. I will let you know the updates of my work on it under this thread only.

By: freedomiq

freedomiq — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:11:24 +0000

Hey, just wanted to say I am enjoying the reviews in your series “Nice Web Type Likes.” It takes discussion to improve and grow, and I think you are creating a perfect atmosphere for that!

By: Tim Brown

Tim Brown — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:07:45 +0000

Philippe, thanks for the heads-up. I’ll have to grab a nightly build and see what you see – I would hate to lose the text-shadow trick.

Martijn, yikes! This comment form does have a few problems. Eventually I hope to have time to improve it. Meanwhile, sorry for the strange behavior. Thanks for telling me about the problem though – I’ll be able to reference your comment as I code.

Divide, thanks! I’ll let the Typekit folks know.

By: Divide

Divide — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:44:50 +0000

This specimen doesn’t work (ie. it doesn’t fetch the fonts) in Konqueror, whereas the previous ones did.

By: Gonzalo González Mora

Gonzalo González Mora — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:28:28 +0000

Thank you very much for your links, Tim. I have really no idea about the technical aspects on creating a typeface and I have some doubts regarding that and the ClearType rendering; I think I will ask them in the Typophile thread.

Thanks again!

By: Martijn

Martijn — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:40:04 +0000

The descenders (or bottom parts of the lettering) that are cut off can—atleast in my WebKit Nightly—be brought into view by selecting the text.

When I select the text and the content beneath it WebKit will also select (or at least highlight) the padding/margin in between. When doing this missing parts of the letterforms that should’ve been there in the first place are rendered.

Far from perfect and I too would wish to see this fixed but it will enable us to see them on the type example by Tim already now.

On a whole different issue, I noticed when placing the above link that we can’t bind title attributes to links. I wrote the following:
http://nicewebtype.com/" title="Tim Brown">Tim Brown
This was rendered by Firefox (at least in the preview) as:
http://nicewebtype.com/%E2%80%9D%20title=" tim="" brown="">Tim
My guess is the system creating “curly”-quotes is a little too greedy.

By: Philippe

Philippe — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 02:57:55 +0000

I forgot to mention: OS in my previous comment is OS X 10.5.7.

By: Philippe

Philippe — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 02:51:51 +0000

The use off text-shadow on the div class="bb"> results in pretty poor glyph display in the latest WebKit nightly builds.

By: mcloki

mcloki — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:57:33 +0000

Descenders broken in Safari Mac. So Typekit is a no go.
Typekit is still a work in progress, but it shows promise.
Keep up the good work. I really like the Nice Web type series.
Reminiscent of those great type specimin posters of olde.

If i had time I’d love to try to make one.

By: Tim Brown

Tim Brown — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:12:03 +0000

Gonzalo and James: thanks! Regarding the rendering, you may be interested to read what Typophiles think. As for the lopped-off descenders (and sometimes more), I heard the Typekit folks are already working on it.