Pinboard: bookmarks for fjordaan tagged 'font'

#11349 (Control+Shift+Z (Redo) Increases Font of Both TinyMCE and GUI) – WordPress Trac

This 'issue' causes WordPress to blow up the font when invoking the Redo function in the TinyMCE.

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4 days ago by fjordaan

A Closer Look At Font Rendering | Smashing Magazine

This article presents the mechanisms of type rendering, how they were developed, and how and why they are applied by the various operating systems and browsers—so that when it comes time to choose a font for your next project, you know what to look out for to ensure the quality of the typography is consistently high.

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4 weeks ago by fjordaan

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Beyond guidelines: Advanced accessibility techniques

For ultimate accessibility though, try implementing some of these techniques too: Hidden text • Succinct, front-loaded and conventional link text • Visible font resizer • Place instructions first • Large headings • Focus state for links • Large link target

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january 2012 by fjordaan

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Photo-Lettering

Don't buy a whole #font, buy just the letters you need. Photolettering.com may be onto something. Such nice fonts too.

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april 2011 by fjordaan

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Font Identification (Font_ID) on Twitter

Rapid, human, independent type research. Send an image, get the font name and link. Alternatives too. — Behind the curtain: Stephen Coles of Typographica.org

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september 2010 by fjordaan

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Code Style: Build better CSS font stacks

The font stack builder will help you build a better font stack from scratch, but what if you need a jump start, inspiration, or want to build on tried and trusted CSS font stacks? Start with this selection of pre-built font stacks and customise with your own preferred fonts.

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july 2010 by fjordaan

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WhatTheFont! « MyFonts

Seen a font in use and want to know what it is?
Submit an image to WhatTheFont to find the closest matches in our database. Or, let cloak-draped font enthusiasts lend a hand in the WhatTheFont Forum

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july 2010 by fjordaan

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What Font is

Submit the image with the font you are looking for. Please note the text must be writen in one line and saved in jpeg, gif or png format.
Send the image file with the font you want to identify

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july 2010 by fjordaan

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iFontMaker – The First & Fastest Font Editor for iPad

iFontMaker™ is the first font editor exclusive for iPad™. With iPad touch interface, your 100% original hand typeface can be done in 5 minutes¹. You can email the typography or convert it into a TTF file² available in all applications such as Adobe® CreativeSuite™, Microsoft® Office™ for Mac™ and Windows™, and also in your web site as a web font³!

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july 2010 by fjordaan

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@font-face gotchas « Paul Irish

Over the past few months, I've collected a few worthwhile notes on @font-face that are worth reading over if you geek out about this stuff…

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july 2010 by fjordaan

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Spiro

Spiro is a toolkit for curve design, especially font design, created by Raph Levien. Spiro is also shipping in development versions of FontForge and Inkscape. You might also enjoy the YouTube video of the latter integration, and some examples by Andy Fitzsimon. For the theory and numerical techniques behind Spiro, see my PhD thesis.

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may 2010 by fjordaan

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Simon Tatham - Music: The Geeking

For the benefit of anyone who's interested and who hasn't already had me talk their ears off about this, here's a discussion of the techniques I used to design the music font I've been talking about recently.

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may 2010 by fjordaan

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@font-face rendering - most common scenarios | Typophile

It is simplified, but generally speaking these are main possible paths with default settings. X axis is market share (with some guessing).

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may 2010 by fjordaan

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Schema | Testing Cufón, @font-face, and Typekit

In summary, I would recommend Cufón for headings, with the warning that links may not display as nicely as you’d like. @font-face is promising, but the lack of available fonts really limits you. I really like Typekit, and I already use it for my personal blog.

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april 2010 by fjordaan

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typeface.js -- Rendering text with Javascript, <canvas>, and VML

Instead of creating images or using flash just to show your site's graphic text in the font you want, you can use typeface.js and write in plain HTML and CSS, just as if your visitors had the font installed locally.

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october 2008 by fjordaan

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CSSTYPE

web safe typography on screen for pixel perfectionists

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june 2008 by fjordaan

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Gentium - a typeface for the nations

Gentium is a typeface family designed to enable the diverse ethnic groups around the world who use the Latin and Greek scripts to produce readable, high-quality publications. It supports a wide range of Latin-based alphabets and includes glyphs that correspond to all the Latin ranges of Unicode.

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june 2008 by fjordaan

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Windows Internet Explorer Testing Center

In conjunction with the Beta 1 release of Internet Explorer 8, we’re posting a set of tests we are using to validate our interpretation and implementation of the CSS 2.1 specification. We’re doing this so we can get some feedback from you, the web designers and developers, on the tests we’ve submitted to the W3C for inclusion into the W3C’s CSS Working Group Test Suite.

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march 2008 by fjordaan

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Type for you.
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march 2008 by fjordaan

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Typography. I Love Typography, devoted to fonts, typefaces and all things typographical.

May be my favourite font. RT @typekit looks fantastic in FF Scala Web and FF Scala Sans Web, served by Typekit.

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march 2008 by fjordaan

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24 ways: Increase Your Font Stacks With Font Matrix

I have put together a matrix of (western) fonts showing which are installed with Mac and Windows operating systems, which are installed with various versions of Microsoft Office, and which are installed with Adobe Creative Suite.

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december 2007 by fjordaan

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Understanding Sub-Pixel (LCD Screen) Anti-Aliased Font Rendering

To understand what sub-pixel rendering is all about, look closely at these three white circles:

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december 2007 by fjordaan

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YUI Library - Fonts - Examples

Setting the font size with YUI Fonts

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november 2007 by fjordaan

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