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Font Fight!
“It’s an all-out typeface-off in our sequel to Font Conference.” -College Humor
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Twitter Highlights of the Week
- 9 Useful Twitter Retweet Button Scripts For Blogs | cheth Studios http://bit.ly/RITHJ
- 8:24 PM Oct 16th from bit.ly
- RT: @AmazingPics An eight year project – Photographing New York store fronts: http://j.mp/6B6ty (via @petapixel)
- 4:36 PM Oct 16th from web
- RT: @RussAdams Cool Illustrated Facial Expressions http://bit.ly/3PsEeX
- 11:58 AM Oct 16th from web
- RT: @flashtuts Crafty way of drawing attention whilst not actually having your site up: http://bit.ly/YB5je (thnx @netdivermag)
- 10:26 AM Oct 16th from web
- Find myself waiting for the release of this font: http://bit.ly/1CXA6b
- 8:41 AM Oct 13th from web
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25 Free Font Sites
There is definitely no shortage of free fonts on the web. Yet, finding them can prove annoying when you are bombarded with pop up ads and false claims of free that forward you to pay sites.
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Web Fonts Suck!
There’s no surprise that the fonts web developers are always required to resort to are depressingly limited.
The sure bets are Arial and Times New Roman. Everything else is a gamble on some level even with Vista introducing some new installed fonts.
You can always use a graphic, a graphics server or flash with embedded fonts to get the same effect you had in Photoshop, but let’s face it, one reason for a website is so you can be found.
Although image alt and/or title tags, and even flash content are now search engine friendly you still want the ease and accessibility of plain text. This makes web accessibility for people using screen readers because of a disability all the easier to implement. Don’t forget all the different platforms the web is viewed through these days. The last of the Mobile Browsers, Safari, Safari on the iPhone, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera, Opera on the Wii, Whatever the Playstation3 is using, and whatever you guys run on Linux. Plain text as of now is just easier to adapt to the different environments.
The video below is an extensive look at fonts for the web from creative techniques to Arials origin.
