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A Closer Look At Font Rendering | Smashing Magazine
5 weeks ago by sunpig
The Web font revolution that started around two years ago has brought up a topic that many of us had merrily ignored for many years: font rendering. The newfound freedom Web fonts are giving us brings along new challenges. Choosing and using a font is not merely a stylistic issue, and it’s worth having a look at how the technology comes into play.
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quartz
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hinting
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antialias
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5 weeks ago by sunpig
The design of a signage typeface | I love typography, the typography and fonts blog
5 weeks ago by sunpig
I was unable to fully answer those questions, but felt that I must find the answers, no matter what the cost. Back in Europe I began studying the typefaces on road signs just about everywhere the Latin script is used. But looking at photos or signage specifications doesn’t reveal much about the actual performance of those typefaces. So I set off, driving thousands of miles across Europe to explore the legibility of these signs and typefaces, first hand. Once I even ended up in a holding cell at the border crossing to Norway, because the customs officers just wouldn’t accept that someone would drive all over Europe simply to take photographs of traffic signs.
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signage
sign
road
roadsign
wayfinding
usability
font
type
typography
graphic
visual
reading
legibility
5 weeks ago by sunpig
graphic design passive aggression 画 - GeekFeed
october 2011 by sunpig
RT @tomcoates: Passive Aggressive Graphic Design Tendency: (If you don't add Neue Haas Grotesk in there, you're a p ...
passive
aggressive
design
font
typography
helvetica
neue
arial
kerning
october 2011 by sunpig
Shady Characters » The Octothorpe, part 1 of 2
june 2011 by sunpig
Wonderful article about the hash/pound/octothorpe character: /via @vasilis in the Daily Nerd ()
language
typography
hash
pound
octothorpe
history
sign
symbol
character
june 2011 by sunpig
The New Bulletproof Font-Face Syntax | Fontspring
february 2011 by sunpig
RT @AaronGustafson: suggests: The New Bulletproof Font-Face Syntax
font-face
css
typography
webfont
webdev
frontend
february 2011 by sunpig
Why You Hate Comic Sans
january 2011 by sunpig
RT @rands: Why you hate Comic Sans: (@hackernews)
comicsans
design
fonts
typography
january 2011 by sunpig
Gzip your @font-face files / phpied.com
october 2009 by sunpig
"Always send your font files gzipped, average 40% to be won, but could be 70% you never know."
stoyanstefanov
font
gzip
css
performance
optimization
font-face
web
speed
size
compression
typography
lh
october 2009 by sunpig
Blambot Comic Fonts and Lettering
design
art
writing
font
text
typography
comics
grammar
geeknotes
lettering
february 2009 by sunpig
Comic book lettering has some grammatical and aesthetic traditions that are quite unique. What follows is a list that every letterer eventually commits to his/her own mental reference file.(via Abi)
february 2009 by sunpig
SMeltery - MEgalopolis Extra
january 2009 by sunpig
Lovely playful font, full of win and ligatures. (Via <a href="http://www.subtraction.com/2009/01/08/typecasting">Khoi Vinh</a>)
design
font
typography
free
megalopolis
smeltery
january 2009 by sunpig
2,002 Honest Fonts
june 2008 by sunpig
via Hoefler & Frere-Jones (http://www.typography.com/ask/showBlog.php?blogID=114)
typography
somethingawful
funny
web
font
june 2008 by sunpig
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