Posts Tagged ‘type’
New CSS3 Properties to Handle Text and Word Wrapping
New CSS3 Properties to Handle Text and Word Wrapping | Impressive Webs. Type is an interesting segment of front end development. It’s always felt like an untamed beast, but that’s gotten better over the past couple of years with the adoption of @font-face and the number of foundries now offering Web fonts. While that handles [...]
Cross-browser kerning-pairs & ligatures
Cross-browser kerning-pairs & ligatures. This is honestly a thing of beauty. Supported currently by Safari, WebKit Nightlies, Chrom, and even Firefox by default, text-rendering:optimizeLegibility automagically handles kerning pairs and ligatures. How sweet is that?!
Typekit and Google Announce Open Source Collaboration
Typekit and Google Announce Open Source Collaboration « The Typekit Blog. I think this is great. Typekit is really making an impact with the service provided, and Google hopping on board is a really great thing for the both of them… and all of us. We’re happy to announce that we’ve teamed up with Google [...]
Will Page Zoom Prove Relative Units Less Useful?
With browser manufacturers beginning to default to page zoom, will relative units be phased out?
Typography in Headings: sIFR? Image Replacement?
While sIFR has garnered quite a bit of attention and support, I have yet to see it implemented all that often. Is CSS based image replacement preferred?
Thinking with Type Book Review
Effectively working with type is a craft in and of itself. Having the ability to use typography to solidify a design is something I hold in high regard as an admirable talent. There is a rich history behind the art of type and Thinking with Type by Ellen Lupton goes to great lengths to describe much of that history.
Linux Font Equivalents to Popular Web Typefaces
Linux should not be ignored when thinking about typography on the Web. I’ve taken some time to compile a list of fonts that ship by default with Ubuntu with type that has come to be considered Web safe.
