Posts Tagged ‘helvetica’

A Call For Open Sourcing Our Fonts

With embedded fonts being supported by all modern browsers in one form or another (be it EOT or @font-face), it is only a matter of time until font embedding becomes commonplace on sites catering to current generation browsers. There is a large collection of blog articles discussing the obvious ramifications of embedding commercially-licensed fonts, the inevitable rise in piracy and the equally inevitable decrease in type foundry profits. I have spent a lot of time thinking about this subject and how it relates to recent copyright debacles conflicts. I would like to be optimistic that a proactive approach towards embedding licensed fonts is attainable and will be accepted by many of the major foundries. However, I do not think it will be happening anytime soon. Therefore, I think the more plausible solution for the immediate future, is to push for an embeddable, open source font collection. Read the rest of this post…


This Week’s Weekly Links of the Week - Week 81

It has been another crazy week. I promised some cool posts in the future, I hope to make good with them very soon.

Enjoy the links.

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My Favorite Typography Blogs

It has been a (very long) while since I written about design at all on this blog. In order to ease myself back into the design subject, I thought I would post some of my favorite typography blogs that I have found. I have come across some pretty hot typefaces through my browsing these sites - I know we are always itching to find that font family that will allow us to default back to Helvetica/Garamond. Font design is such an amazing craft in my opinion, that I enjoy looking at new typographic designs/trends whether I am looking for a new font or not.

Here is my list (in no particular order):

Please, do add to this list - I am dying to get some new sites to gawk at.


This Week’s Weekly Links of the Week - Week 37

It is late and I am most definitely tired. This week had a lot of things going on - the Boston/Aqua Teen Hunger Force freak-out, the Super Bowl, all sorts of “good news” coming out of the Middle East (as usual). All of these stories and more are covered in the weekly links. I am going to sign off - it has been a long week and I am ready for a break. Have fun this weekend folks.

Enjoy the links.

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Flash Faux Font Weights

I am a bit of a stickler about keeping my swf files as small as possible. One of the biggest hurdles I run into for keeping swf file sizes low is the embedding of fonts. There are best practices you can follow, such as using system fonts for large amounts of copy and not embedding characters that will not be used. Still, a couple fonts and/or a couple different weights and your file size is considerably higher. It was during a project where I was having this very problem when I came up with a little trick to help lower the embed size of fonts - and it is extremely easy to do. Read the rest of this post…


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