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The Potential of Web Typography

Posted on 30. Jun, 2009 by ralfherrmann.

Firefox 3.5 with support for webfonts is out. This demo page by Ian Lynam & Craig Mod shows how commercial webfonts can enrich a website. The demo page uses subsetted versions of fonts from the Dutch foundry Underware and “is intended to show what will be possible once foundries revise their EULAs allowing for high-quality professional level fonts to be referenced in CSS“.

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Folder Type

Posted on 24. Jun, 2009 by ralfherrmann.

Beautiful type animation build with colored empty folders on MacOS X.

Folder Type from Emilio Gomariz on Vimeo.

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Sneak Peek: @font-face in Opera 10

Posted on 04. Jun, 2009 by ralfherrmann.

The team of Opera was actually one of the first ones which worked on an @font-face implementation for linked TrueType/OpenType fonts. But this feature never made it in any of the final released. In Opera 10 it should finally happen and you can try it yourself with the public beta. Here is a short test [...]

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Webfonts tweets

Posted on 03. Jun, 2009 by ralfherrmann.

Now you can also follow me on twitter. I will use this account mainly for comments and discussions about webfonts.
http://twitter.com/opentype

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Beautiful webfonts demo

Posted on 25. May, 2009 by ralfherrmann.

Tim Brown from nicewebtype.com designed a beatiful webfonts demo page using Graublau Sans Web. If you use a browser capable of linking TrueType/OpenType fonts try the demo page – otherwise take a look at the screenshot.

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Commercial font vendors starting to allow @font-face embedding

Posted on 20. May, 2009 by ralfherrmann.

When Apple introduced its @font-face support in Safari 3.1 in March 2008 it caused heated debates in the type industry, because in order to embed a TrueType or OpenType font in a website, the fonts need to be uploaded to a public server, free for everyone to be downloaded. But the users keep requesting the use of commercial [...]

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Wood letter printing in Brazil

Posted on 18. May, 2009 by ralfherrmann.

Grafica Fidalga, a printing press in São Paulo, Brazil, makes posters on a 1929 German letterpress using hand-carved wooden letters.
(via praeganz.de)

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Google Chrome with webfonts support

Posted on 16. Apr, 2009 by ralfherrmann.

The latest 2.0 beta of Google Chrome now also supports linked TrueType or OpenType fonts. This comes as no surprise, since Chrome is based on the Webkit framework, which supports @font-face for a while now.
So we now see webfont support for TrueType/OpenType fonts in Safari (3.1 and higher), Firefox (3.5), Opera (10) and Chrome (2.0.157 [...]