If you’re like me and use the margins in books for commentary (‘Interesting idea.’ or ‘The author is insane!’), cross-references (‘see also Book X by M. Malaprop.’), and comparisons (e.g. ‘cf. p.58.’), then you might also share my frustration: In many, if not most books, the margins are just too small.

In our last post we announced Octicons, our new icon font. We put a lot of work into the font and gained a lot of knowledge in the process. With five different designers working to make it happen, this was one of our bigger collaborations. We thought we'd detail how we built Octicons and what we learned along the way.

RT @adamcbrewer: Amazing! Custom font-icons from Fontomas - via @tylertate (by @puzrin, via @phoey1)

RT @zeldman: Now in private beta - Typecast: Design with web fonts, in the browser. #aea @elliotjaystocks

css3 introduces root font sizing 'rem' - now questioning 5 years of using em via @whatterz @snookca #css

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Matrix of fonts bundled with Mac and Windows operating systems, Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite