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May 2012

Type Foundry | 29 Arabic Letters | Droid Naskh

Droid Naskh is an Arabic type designed in 2010 for use in Google™ products such as Google Chrome™ and Android™. Designed to complement the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic provided in the Droid Serif family, the Arabic matches the color, alignment and design detail of the Droid Serif allowing them to be used together for multi-lingual typesetting. This Naskh style is optimized for reading Arabic script on screen. Droid Naskh was designed in collaboration with Ascendercorp and Google to ensure that all the requirements for a screen and web font are met. Google performed several surveys and tests on the fonts during the design and development process.

Intro Font | Fontfabric™

Intro family includes 26 very unique font styles & weights. The font family is characterized by excellent legibility in both – web & print design areas, well-finished geometric designs, optimized kerning etc. Intro is most suitable for headlines of all sizes, as well as for text blocks that come in both maximum and minimum variations. The font styles are applicable for any type of graphic design – web, print, motion graphics, etc. and perfect for t-shirts and other items like posters and logos.

Just My Type

A collection of nice font stacks. Inspired by Typestacks. Fonts from Typekit. Stacks with a price label indicate that certain fonts are only available on one of Typekit’s paid plans. If you ask me, it’s worth every penny. Go sign up.

April 2012

FontShop Plugin | FontShop

The FontShop Plugin Beta allows designers and other type enthusiasts to try out FontShop fonts directly inside Adobe® Photoshop® CS5 and CS5.5. You can preview any of the over 150,000 FontShop fonts for free, in the context of your own artwork. This is a great new way to find the perfect typographic fit for your project.

Font Awesome, the iconic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap

by 6 others
In a single collection, Font Awesome is a pictographic language of web-related actions

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

by 7 others
There are over 400 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.

February 2012

Modern Pictograms - The Design Office

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Modern Pictograms is a typeface for interface designers and programmers. Designed in early 2011 for the Flatfile Wordpress theme, the pictograms stay sharp when used large or small. Install the OpenType file for Photoshop mockups and drop in the @font-face code into your CSS to embed them right in your Web page. Designed to work on web sites at sizes down to 18 pixels, but best at higher than 24 pixels.

January 2012

Home | Design in the browser with web fonts and real content — Typecast

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The web’s most beautiful typefaces Try typefaces from the web’s best known web font services. Design with real content Kiss goodbye to Lorum Ipsum. Get real web content in place, fast. Create HTML & CSS in the browser Quickly get to a working, standards-compliant prototype.

July 2011

June 2011

Lost Type Co-op | Browse Fonts

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The Lost Type Co-op is a collaboration between Tyler Galpin and Riley Cran. It was founded with the intention of providing unique and quality fonts based on a pay-what-you-want model. All designers get 100% of the donations their font receives.

March 2011

Even easier mobile web fonts with Typekit and Mobify « The Typekit Blog

Typekit is excited to announce a partnership with Mobify which will allow designers to unify their desktop and mobile experiences. One of our first joint customers is Wired, who has used the new integration to revamp their mobile presence.

Suitcase Type Foundry - iPad application

A new generation of type specimens. Type Specimen is the first font viewer for iPad, revolutionizing the way digital fonts are presented today. It's an ideal tool for people who need to select fonts for projects - be it magazine design, corporate identity design, web applications, or book typesetting. Type Specimen is a quick and easy way to navigate the type foundry, containing over two hundred original font styles. Type Specimen allows you to categorize individual fonts, make comparisons, or see details of specific glyphs. All of this for free of course.

February 2011

October 2010

Webtype

Webtype is a collaboration of leaders in type and technology formed to offer designers and developers the best quality professional fonts for their websites. In the past, designers have faced significant limitations and technical challenges in deploying fonts on their websites. With Webtype, consistent typographic fidelity will finally be available with a new palette of professional fonts tailored specifically for the web. Webtype was built from the ground up to provide the quality, consistency, flexibility, and reliability that designers and webmasters require for their work. Backed by a team of respected type experts, software engineers, and sales & support personnel, customers will be able to customize the typography of their sites quickly, reliably, and economically without sacrificing quality and readability.

Miscellaneous Symbols – Test for Unicode support in Web browsers

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The characters that appear in the first column of the following table depend on the browser that you are using, the fonts installed on your computer, and the browser options you have chosen that determine the fonts used to display particular character sets, encodings or languages. The entries in the “Entity” column are named character entities that can be used in HTML pages.

Type rendering: operating systems « The Typekit Blog

As we dig into type rendering on the web, we’ll begin by looking at text rendering engines. We are all familiar with operating systems like Windows and Mac OS X, but within each OS are smaller, specialized components available for use by applications like web browsers. APIs such as Core Text on Mac OS X, and DirectWrite and GDI on Windows, are examples of these components and are responsible for rasterizing fonts’ vector outlines. Let’s examine screenshots of web type as rendered by each of these APIs, and talk about the application independence of rendering engines.

September 2010

The League of Moveable Type

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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.

July 2010

Typographic Web Design

How to think like a typographer in HTML and CSS An interactive e-book by LAURA FRANZ, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

font.is » Customize QuickLook for fonts

Quick­Look, the abil­ity to see a quick pre­view of files and fold­ers sim­ply by select­ing and then press­ing the Space bar has been avail­able for some time now. This is a great time saver and gives access to infor­ma­tion that in many cases you would oth­er­wise have to install spe­cific soft­ware to get. Quick­Look can view was num­ber of for­mats but it is pos­si­ble to extent its use by adding plug-ins to it. Most of them are free. Some soft­ware devel­op­ers offer plug-ins for Quick­Look for their soft­ware if Quick­Look does not pre­view files made by their software. One of Quick­Look great­est fea­tures in my opin­ion is that it can pre­view fonts. Not only to see if it’s the font I am look­ing for, but also to see if the six glyphs spe­cific for the Ice­landic lan­guage, are in the font (which is a com­mon prob­lem) or, if they are, to see if they are drawn in a proper way and usable.

Better Reading on the iPad: iBooks 1.1, VQR, & PDF | The FontFeed

Some good things have happened since my post full of iPad grumbles. Time for an update. On Monday, Apple released iOS 4, and along with it a small but significant update to iBooks, its e-reader app. This revision addresses two of my biggest gripes about reading on the iPad.

FontFonter

by 3 others
Web FontFonts are high quality, screen-optimized fonts designed specifically for web use. Learn more » FontFonter uses custom CSS and other techniques to temporarily replace a site’s font styles with Web FontFonts.

cityfont.com — voice of a city.

by 1 other
The project "cityfont.com" is lead by Type Project Japan Inc. We're now making activity to realize the CITY FONT in Japan refering to the precedent project of the city font all over the world. We aim to raise the worth of the city with typeface and explore the potential of typeface.

Fighting the @font-face FOUT « Paul Irish

by 4 others (via)
I really don't like the text upgrade FOUT, so I personally prefer webkit's technique. But either way, we want the font loaded ASAP, so let's speed it up!