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[About Web Design / HTML] Web Typography is important to most websites, but most Web designers don't think a lot about it beyond the font family and font size for their text. Do you pay more attention to your font stack than to the colors on your site?

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[Mykl Roventine - Designer of Things] Typography Thursday: 4.23.10 :: Mykl Roventine - Designer of Things: He'll show early font work, samples of fonts in action and case studies of how custom fonts help create great brands. A bargain at $15 (add a half day of coworking for another $15). Register at CoCo. Personal Plug: Web Typography - Viva ...

[Inspired Magazine] 20 Font Driven Websites Showcase: We've collected 20 awesome font driven sites that nicely utilize with typography. Most of them having fonts playing important role from type design to font driven business.

[Typophile - General Discussions, Design, Build, Release, News, Bitmap Display / Script, Bitmap Text, Blackletter / Uncial, Display, Motion / 3d / Experimental, Sans Serif, Script / Handwriting / Graffiti, Serif, Typography / Composition, Type ID Board, wiki] Web Font Storefronts in 2012 | Typophile: The way it is now, web font embedders can only guess what a font will look like on their site in various browsers. No matter how nice the specimens are, it's not the same as seeing it on the actual page, in the desired size and color in various browsers.

[web enavu] Typography in Web Design - Complete Guide | web enavu: This theory however has been argued against, some say that people read in a sporadic manner where their eyes make jumps across rather than a continues vertical flow.  In the past studies have been shown to people preferring Serif fonts over Sans-Serif but the time the studies were done suggests that people were just more use to Serif fonts. The more recent Studies suggest the opposite effect.

[xForce Articles] Typography in Web Design: » Colour, Consider, Take, Space, Tips ...: Scalable Inman Flash Replacement, better known as sIFR text are giving many website designers creative leeway. In simple terms, sIFR text is a flash rendering technique whereby designers can replace on-screen text elements with flash equivalents.

[Creative Nerds] 40 Beautiful Free Fonts For Creating Attractive Typography ...: A collection of amazing fonts which are suitable and perfect for web design projects as well print based projects. There is a misconception by designers that free fonts are usually cheap looking and cannot be used in order to create a good design, but what designers don’t realise is that there is the odd good free font it just takes time in order to find the perfects ones.

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[MyTemplateBox] 5 Useful Typography Tools to Aid you Web Design by MyTemplateBox: Each style corresponds with a “style ID”, which allows you to annotate prototypes and retrieve the CSS while coding.

[The Typekit Blog] Typekit and Drupal Gardens: Let a thousand fonts bloom « The ...: Take a look at the Typekit home page and you’ll see our mission in big, beautiful letters: The easiest way to use real fonts on the web. Everything we do is aimed at offering simple yet powerful access to an ever-growing library of webfonts, regardless of whether you write markup by hand, publish your site [...]

[web design london blog] © web design london - Typography 01 :: Font Basics - What Is X ...: Italic is a specifically designed version of a font used for italics, Oblique is more like taking the normal 'regular' -(some times called 'book' or 'Roman') member of the family and simply skewing it so that the existing characters lean in a 'faux italic' manner. (This can be useful for instances where a flush baseline is desired but the forward leaning of an italic is necessary, such as logo work.)

[Ralf Herrmann's Typography Weblog] The iPad and SVG fonts in Mobile Safari | Ralf Herrmann's ...: But without support for real webfonts format such as WOFF and EOT, browsing the web with Mobile Safari is not really better. So I am really hoping that Apple will include true webfont formats in Mobile Safari””preferably WOFF which is also missing in Safari but has a good chance of becoming the webfont format in the near future.

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[Think! - User Engagement Blog] Fluid Web Typography - SXSWi 2010 | Work at Play - Digital Agency: The verbiage for font linking is a little different than images, but the syntax for Webfont linking has been around for over 10 years as a part of the CSS standard. Web typography expert Jason Cranford Teague shows you how to apply the principles of fluid typography, to choose, find and use Webfonts and create your unique typographic voice."

[Wordpress Blog Services] Wordpress Blog Services - Showcase Of Web Design In The Netherlands: Rolf Coppens adds: “Simplicity and conceptual working are characteristics you often find in our Web design.” Caspar Hardholt has a similar opinion: “I think Dutch Web design is less complicated and very natural. As the Dutch saying goes, ”˜Just act normal ”” that’s crazy enough.’ And I guess we don’t like stock photography.

[Inspired News] A Basic Look at Typography in Web Design: It’s best used on headlines or very small blocks of text because the load time can drag on a bit if you use it extensively on a web page. The downside is that it doesn’t work without Flash enabled in your browser, but the upside of sIFR versus Cufon is that text is selectable.

[Web Hosting and Design Blog] Interactive Online - A Basic Look at Typography in Web Design: Although at an increased size and with more leading””the amount of additional vertical space between lines of type””sans serif fonts can still work fine in body text on the web. Serifs work great in headlines and headings because they give a special accent to a headline and because serif fonts are easy to read when dealing with smaller quantities of text.

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