Posts Tagged ‘web fonts

Google has released version 2 of Google Web Fonts. This new release includes a lot of great functionality for evaluating and choosing fonts for your web site. You can browse fonts using examples formatted as words, sentences, and paragraphs, to see the fonts in the context you intend to use them. You can also “test [...]

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of [...]

The WhatFont tool is a great way to identify what web fonts are being used right on a page. When the bookmarklet is active, just click on any text to discover its full font stack! Go to chengyinliu.com/whatfont.html to install the bookmarklet (Firefox 3.6+, Chrome 9+, Safari 4+, Internet Explorer 9) or get the extension [...]

Google Web Fonts came to light a while back, and it seemed like it might be a viable alternative to Flash-based font replacement methods such as Cufon and SIFR. The one thing that kept it from being a real solution was that there was only a handful of fonts available, so not enough choice to [...]

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