Ralf Herrmann: Wayfinding & Typography » Web Design

Jessica Hische: Uniting Nerds through Typography

Ralf Herrmann — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:30:58 +0000

“Why Type Designers and Web Designers are Incredibly Similar and Should Really Get a Room Already.” (Webstock ’12)

The 10 best fonts from the Google Webfonts Directory

Ralf Herrmann — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 14:36:12 +0000

The idea of the Google Webfonts Directory is great: offering everyone free webfonts, which you can include in your website with just one line of code and without worrying about the multiple webfont formats, subsetting, file size, download speed and so on. When the service started in 2010 it offered just a couple of fonts. [...]

Introducing the Typecast app

Ralf Herrmann — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:22:07 +0000

Typecast by FRONT is a tool for creating your CSS code with webfonts directly in the browser with a true WYSIWYG view. The initial layout of websites is still mostly developed in applications like Adobe Photoshop. There you can play with layers, images, bitmap effects and easily present a mock-up to the client without having [...]

Better web typography with OpenType features

Ralf Herrmann — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 13:08:58 +0000

Now that webfonts are supported by all major browsers, more and more professional fonts are available for web linking. These fonts usually contain a large set of OpenType features, which are only accessible in OpenType-savvy applications like InDesign, Illustrator or QuarkXPress. Browsers have barely supported such advanced typographic features so far. But with the latest Beta [...]

The iPad and SVG fonts in Mobile Safari

Ralf Herrmann — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:00:23 +0000

With all this hype around the iPad, people keep asking if the iPad supports webfonts. The good news is: Yes, it does. The bad news: the iPad runs Mobile Safari and in contrast to the standard version of Safari only SVG fonts are supported. Oh my gosh! Yet a another font format for the web? [...]

Introducing Web FontFonts

Ralf Herrmann — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:31:15 +0000

While FontFonts were already available thru TypeKit, FontShop International has now announced, that more than 30 of the most popular FontFont families are now available for download as so-called Web FontFonts, including FF DIN, FF Meta, FF Dax, and FF Kievit. This enables a more seamless and effective transition from print design to the web. An organization whose identity uses FF DIN, for example, can now [...]

TypeFront – a font distribution platform for the web

Ralf Herrmann — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:13:42 +0000

Services around webfonts are currently springing up like mushrooms. Here is another one: TypeFront, a service to host webfonts for users and foundries. Website owners can upload their licensed fonts and the service ensures that the fonts cannot be accessed from other websites. Moreover the service also provides an API, so foundries can set up [...]

Fontspring – @Font-Face ready typefaces

Ralf Herrmann — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:05:35 +0000

While webfont services are getting a lot of attention these days, there is still the “old way” of licensing fonts with a one-time license fee. But usually such licenses don’t cover the use of fonts on websites via @font-face. Now Fontspring has opened its store—a font reseller which offers fonts for regular desktop use, but all [...]

Why webfont services are the future of fonts on the web

Ralf Herrmann — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:01:05 +0000

The debate about webfonts just reached its peak at a panel discussion on this year’s TypeCon conference. (You can listen to the 2 hours audio at Typographica and read summaries at i love typography and NiceWebType.) The discussion left a lot of people puzzled about how the future of fonts on the web might look like. Here [...]

The Potential of Web Typography

Ralf Herrmann — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:27:08 +0000

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 [...]

Webfonts tweets

Ralf Herrmann — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:21:03 +0000

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

Beautiful webfonts demo

Ralf Herrmann — Mon, 25 May 2009 15:32:03 +0000

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.

Commercial font vendors starting to allow @font-face embedding

Ralf Herrmann — Wed, 20 May 2009 09:11:26 +0000

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 [...]

10 Great Free Fonts for @font-face embedding

Ralf Herrmann — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:26:15 +0000

Safari and Internet Explorer already support it*. Firefox and Opera will get it soon: Downloadable webfonts. Here is a collection of 10 great headline fonts you can embed in you website free of charge … If you use Safari 3.1 visit the demo page (1000 KB). 1. Graublau Sans Web 2. Fertigo Pro 3. Tallys [...]

Kerning and OpenType features in Firefox 3

Ralf Herrmann — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:23:31 +0000

Firefox 3 will be the first major browser with support for kerning and automatic ligatures. I tested the Firefox 3 release canditate and I have to say, it’s not perfect yet. But first the good news: Kerning Kerning is an important feature in print typography but for most of the (rather small) texts we read [...]