Comments on: ❡ Sticking with a typeface

By: Will

Will — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:46:14 +0000

While I currently don’t use @font-face on my site (although I used to until today), Museo Sans (exljbris) has always worked for me.

By: Tim Brown

Tim Brown — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:28:56 +0000

Veda, presently there are some rendering issues that even well-made typefaces cannot overcome. If you use Twitter, you should follow Type Rendering for news about advances in this area. As for selecting great fonts for use with @font-face, I've been working on a small, valuable resource — coming in early 2010.

By: Veda Williams

Veda Williams — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:04:02 +0000

As far as I can tell, you’re selecting well-hinted fonts off of TypeKit. Do we have a sense of which fonts play well, other than the ones you’ve suggested here? (I’ve been following this discussion, and it appears to have ground to a halt).

I’m looking into fonts that resemble VistaSans that play well on Mac and PC using TypeKit, for use on sites like this one: http://www.yesmagazine.org/. We had to use sIFR in this case, due to licensing issues, and I’d really love to find a “workhorse” font similar to it that will play happily.

Do you have any thoughts here? Any good resources you could point me to? As far as I have been able to determine, FontFont foundry on TypeKit is well-hinted, but beyond that I’m in the dark.

Thanks in advance,

- Veda

By: Tim Brown

Tim Brown — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:54:51 +0000

Good point, Wouter. It's been easy to take for granted the core web fonts we've been using for years. They're really well made when you compare them with some of today's @font-face alternatives. And as you say, we've grown accustomed to them – and so have folks browsing websites. In fact, initially, when I find even a well-hinted typeface (like the new FontFont Typekit faces) being used on a site, it's kind of a shock because it doesn't feel normal. Don't get me wrong, they look incredible ... but we're going to have that cultural double-take for a while before things settle down.

By: Wouter Bos

Wouter Bos — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:06:43 +0000

Although @font-face is really freeing designers I certainly believe that we will be going to appreciate a font like Arial. Not only because we got accustomed to it since we were stuck with it for so many years, but also because it’s such a versatile font compared to some other fonts.