Pinboard: bookmarks for fjordaan tagged 'fonts'

Beautiful web type — the best typefaces from the Google web fonts directory

There are currently 404 typefaces in the Google web fonts directory. Many of them are awful. But there are also high-quality typefaces that deserve a closer look. Below are examples of these typefaces in action. Click the examples to get the typeface from the Google web fonts directory.

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12 weeks ago by fjordaan

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Fonts In Use – Type at work in the real world.
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march 2011 by fjordaan

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Type rendering: review, and fonts that render well « The Typekit Blog

We’ve done a lot of research on type rendering, all of which has helped us understand why text looks the way it does on the web, and we hope you’ve enjoyed learning with us. Let’s review everything so far, and then look at a selection of fonts we trust to render well.

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march 2011 by fjordaan

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The League of Moveable Type

We're done with the tired old fontstacks of yesteryear. Enough with the limitations of the web, we won't have it. It's time to raise our standards. Here, you'll find only the most well-made, free & open-source, @font-face ready fonts.

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february 2011 by fjordaan

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Free fonts for both commercial and noncommercial use | FontPark.net

FontPark is the largest portal noncommercial fonts . The current database has more than 70,000 fonts available for noncommercial and commercial use for PC Mac and Linux.

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september 2010 by fjordaan

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september 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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Typotheque: Hinting by Peter Biľak

Hinting, or screen optimising, is the process by which fonts are adjusted for maximum readability on computer monitors. I have been designing type since the early 1990s, and for as long as I can remember, type designers have been saying that hinting would soon be made obsolete by new advances in hardware and software. Now, almost 20 years later, hinting seems to be more relevant than ever.

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june 2010 by fjordaan

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Where Microsoft beats Apple ¶ Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto

My esteemed, not-always-annoying colleague Stephen Coles is correct: Apple typography has been half-assed at best through the entire reign of OS X. Typography on the iPhone/iTouch and now iPad also isn’t good enough.

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june 2010 by fjordaan

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My Love/Hate Affair With Typekit – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report

If not for Typekit, we might have had to wait years for most or all type designers to license web fonts. Thanks to Typekit, we all know about the problem, and type designers are re-hinting their fonts, and in some cases redesigning them for the screen. For all this I and all of us can be grateful to Typekit.

All this said in Typekit’s favor, I have mixed feelings about their product because I’d rather buy a web-licensed font than rent it.

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april 2010 by fjordaan

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Ask H&FJ: Four Ways to Mix Fonts

Is there a way to know what fonts will work together? Building a palette is an intuitive process, but expanding a typographic duet to three, four, or even five voices can be daunting. Here are four tips for navigating the typographic ocean, all built around H&FJ's Highly Scientific First Principle of Combining Fonts: keep one thing consistent, and let one thing vary.

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april 2010 by fjordaan

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What the iPad is Missing (No, it’s not a Camera) | The FontFeed

Disappointing, but not surprising. Apple has made some puzzling decisions over the last few years that leave one wondering if they really care about typography as much as they did in the 1980s when the Mac launched the desktop publishing revolution.

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april 2010 by fjordaan

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Bringing Web Fonts Closer | Kernest

For Web Designers 1. Pick Fonts for Your Website 2. Add Kernest's CSS Embed to Your Website 3. Update Your CSS Tags 4. Refresh

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july 2009 by fjordaan

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Fuck the foundries [dive into mark]

The more I read about embedded web fonts, the more I crystalize my thinking. Take, for example, this latest "A List Apart" article where Jeffrey Zeldman interviews David Berlow: