Pinboard: bookmarks for nickdominguez tagged 'typography'

The Google Font Directory lets you browse all the fonts available via the Google Font API. All fonts in the directory are available for use on your website under an open source license and served by Google servers.

font css typography google
may 2010 by nickdominguez

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St Transmission

A nice free condensed face with a technical look.

typography font
november 2009 by nickdominguez

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Font Capture

At fontcapture.com you can create a font from your very own handwriting. There's no software to download and install, all you need is a printer and a scanner.

typography fonts software
november 2009 by nickdominguez

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Web Font Specimen

Web type renders differently with only subtle CSS adjustments, seeing it exercised in a variety of ways can help web designers typeset—and also help them decide which typefaces to purchase for their projects.

font-face font typography
november 2009 by nickdominguez

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Pristine Font rendering for the Web

We all want really nice looking web typography, and there’s a ton of solutions out there. Here’s mine. I’ve to warn you, it’s very lo-tech. It’s done with images. But with really nice ones.

typography ruby
september 2009 by nickdominguez

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Baseline

Built with typographic standards in mind, Baseline makes it easy to develop a website with a pleasing grid and good typography.

css framework typography
september 2009 by nickdominguez

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Font Squirrel @font-face Fonts

This page showcases all the fonts that Font Squirrel offers for use with @font-face CSS embedding.

@font-face typography
july 2009 by nickdominguez

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OpenType Table

What follows is a proposal for an OpenType Permissions table in human-readable alpha form. This is intended as a starting point for permissions and recommendations and will have all the proper technical details of storage types, communication of vital bits and bytes, and proper internationalization as it moves along.

typography webfonts
july 2009 by nickdominguez

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Open Font Library

The Open Font Library hosts the cream of non-proprietary typeface designs.

typography free opensource
july 2009 by nickdominguez

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TypeSelect

Beautifully rendered & selectable typefaces controlled by CSS. You shouldn’t have to compromise the design or the user's experience to have selectable text

tools design javascript typography
july 2009 by nickdominguez

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Cufón

Cufón aims to become a worthy alternative to sIFR, which despite its merits still remains painfully tricky to set up and use

typography
february 2009 by nickdominguez

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Font Squirrel

Handpicked free fonts for graphic designers with commercial-use licenses.

typography webdesign free fonts
january 2009 by nickdominguez

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sIFR lite

Once upon a time some really good web developers created sIFR. Their goal was to seamlessly convert HTML headlines into nice fonts. Well, these developers did a great job getting it to work nicely. Looking at their code, I decided I would create a "lite" version of sIFR using a more object-oriented approach. sIFR Lite is a bit easier to read, and more intuitive to use.

fonts typography sifr javascript flash
december 2008 by nickdominguez

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Fontcase

Very nice up and coming font manager for OSX.

typography fonts applications
december 2008 by nickdominguez

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Ascender Fonts

Ascenderfonts.com has the finest, high quality fonts available for instant download. Brought to you by the font experts at Ascender Corp, you will find a great selection of TrueType fonts and OpenType fonts from licensed type designers and foundries.

design typography typeface fonts
december 2008 by nickdominguez

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Typeface.js

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.

typography javascript
october 2008 by nickdominguez

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Duffy Script

Very nice script font.

typography script
september 2008 by nickdominguez

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Typechart

Typechart lets you flip through, preview and compare web typography while retrieving the CSS.

css typography tools
september 2008 by nickdominguez

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Prelo

Beautiful modern type face from TypeTrust.

typography
july 2008 by nickdominguez

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8 fonts you probably don’t use in css, but should

Just what it says. Some of the typefaces you forget that are installed on alot of machines these days.

typography
june 2008 by nickdominguez

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Our Middle Name

By the time the letter W entered the Latin alphabet in the seventh century, ampersands had enjoyed six hundred years of continuous use

typography
may 2008 by nickdominguez

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Heroic Condensed

I'm a sucker for condensed typefaces. Hat tip to Dan Rubin.

typography
may 2008 by nickdominguez

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Alphabet City

Jason Santa Maria documents a recent typographic walking tour in Manhatten's Lower East Side.

photography typography nyc
may 2008 by nickdominguez

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FontCubes

One of the better free font sites that I have bumped into lately.

fonts typography free
april 2008 by nickdominguez

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Contemporary Handwriting Fonts

Finding good script and especially handwritten fonts can be a real pain, this is a nice guide.

design fonts typography
april 2008 by nickdominguez

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Lakeside

Lakeside is a flowing 1940s-style brush script. It was inspired by hand-lettered titles in the classic 1944 film noir movie "Laura."

typography fonts
february 2008 by nickdominguez

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Joshua Darden Studio

The Joshua Darden Studio develops new typefaces and lettering for publications, institutions, corporate brands and private clients.

typography fonts design
january 2008 by nickdominguez

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Penguin Books

Some great covers on these books by Penguin in the 60s?

book design inspiration typography
january 2008 by nickdominguez

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Typewriter Tin Collections

Some really nice type and color combinations on these tins.

design inspiration typography
january 2008 by nickdominguez

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Typography.

iLT is designed to inspire its readers, to make people more aware of the typography that is around them.

typography
october 2007 by nickdominguez

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Matchbook Museum

I really love the typography on these matchbook covers.

typography
september 2007 by nickdominguez

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Die 100 Besten Schriften

The 100 best typefaces ranked in order.

typography
august 2007 by nickdominguez

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Syncotype

I wrote a simple bookmarklet script that overlays a baseline grid atop everything on the page you’re viewing.

typography
august 2007 by nickdominguez

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Typograhica's Favorite Fonts of 2006

A nice list of fonts from Typographica that were released last year, if only we had the money to purchase most of these typefaces.

typography
july 2007 by nickdominguez

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Baseline Rhythm Calculator

Plug in your font size and line-height and this calculator will give you basic css to ensure your baselines stay consistent.

tools typography css
april 2007 by nickdominguez

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Golden ratio

At least since the Renaissance, many artists and architects have proportioned their works to approximate the golden ratio—especially in the form of the golden rectangle, in which the ratio of the longer side to the shorter is the golden ratio—believin

typography design
march 2007 by nickdominguez

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Web Typography Sucks

Slides from Richard Rutter and Mark Bouton's SXSW2007 presentation.

presentation typography
march 2007 by nickdominguez

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The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web

A practical guide to web typography

design typography web css
february 2007 by nickdominguez

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Compose to a Vertical Rhythm

“Space in typography is like time in music. It is infinitely divisible, but a few proportional intervals can be much more useful than a limitless choice of arbitrary quantities.”

typography articles
december 2006 by nickdominguez

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Fonts on football jerseys

Various football or soccer jerseys and the font types they use for the lettering on the player's name.

soccer typography
november 2006 by nickdominguez

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Font Bros - Typography Supply Company

Nice collection of retro fonts.

fonts typography
august 2006 by nickdominguez

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