You could say I’ve become somewhat obsessed with @font-face embedding over the past few months. I’ve most certainly fell head over heels for the @font-face generator from fontsquirrel.com (see the recap below).
One thing however that has always bothered me is IE7 and IE8’s rendering of embedded fonts, so today with IE tester at hand and google ready to get wild I vowed to come up with a solution and I think I may just have.
Designers love to have a lot of quality fonts available to them, and fortunately there are some very good free fonts out there. In this post we’ll feature some of the best free fonts that can be used in your commercial designs. If you’re looking for a place to find more free fonts that can be used for commercial projects, I highly recommend Font Squirrel.
Now that the curtain has come down and now Typekit is available to all, let’s see how Typekit and the previously mentioned Font Squirrel stack up head-to-head.
WordPress has pretty decent typography features in the core installation. But there are plenty of areas ripe for improvement. That’s where the plugins below come in.
Whether you just want more control over how the basic text on your site shows up or you want to do something a bit more advanced, there’s surely a plugin available to help. There are plugins to better handle things like hyphens and long URLS, plugins to replace text with images (whether in headlines or to avoid censorship), and plugins to let you add print-centric elements, like drop caps and pull quotes, to your posts.
“I’ve been using Cufón off and on since writing about font embedding back in May. It’s a great hack, but browser progress since that time has been making me feel that the native CSS @font-face rule is becoming increasingly viable. Or, at least enough so that it seems like it’s time to start dabbling.
Yes, I know of TypeKit. It’s a great idea and there are some solid reasons to consider using it. But I’m still interested in using the native technology from time to time, which is where we begin.
Ignoring the licensing issues for now, the problems are those of syntax and technology. Syntax because Internet Explorer requires you to import a different file than every other browser. Technology because, well, Internet Explorer requires you to import a different file than every other browser.”
If you are looking some awesome and exciting new fonts then you search ends here. In this post I’m sharing a bunch of some new and exciting fonts for web designers and desktop publishers (for printing).
The following list covers most of Serif and Sans Serif family fonts like Serifan, Serifab, Serifat, Vaground, Bitstream Vera Serif, Stonsans, Bastardus Sans, Museo Sans, Ambrosia Demo etc.
The Slab Serifs have being emerging as a nice trend, used in casual and dynamic layouts.
One aspect of designing for the web that almost immediately offends designers is the lack of fonts that are considered safe to use. While it is true that there are only a handful of web safe fonts, the ones we do have at our disposal can be quite powerful and diversely useful. On top of that, CSS gives us a nice little thing called a font stack.