Best 20 web fonts
The AWWWARDS site has a list of best 20 web fonts. Web typography is a little far afield from this blog's usual topics, but I figure it's close enough....
Archive for Typography
Rooftop kerning
It struck me a while back that every time there's any text on any sign, someone had to choose a font and a size for it, among other design choices....
Hipster Ipsum
Want some sample filler text, but find faux-Latin too stodgy? Now you can use Hipster Ipsum—“Artisanal filler text for your site or project” to fill your space with hipster-related terms....
Typeface: Face recognition and generative type
Video demo of a nifty project called Typeface 2 by Mary Huang. It analyzes the user's face and generates letters of a typeface based on things like the user opening...
If M.C. Escher designed typefaces
Guest blogger Shmuel here again... the problem with getting behind in blogging is that you feel that after taking so long, you ought to write something really good, which of...
Small caps and the numeral 1
John Gruber at Daring Fireball has been linking to various posts having to do with the use of small caps in typesetting. For example: Gore's choice explains Al Gore's request...