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Posted on 27. Aug, 2008 by Ralf Herrmann.
Did you hear? Comma and Period got married.
Really? Comma’s a great guy, but who’s Period?
Some moody chick he picked up at the Crossbar a year ago.
I bet she’s perfect for him.
Yep, she’s always finishing his sentences.
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Posted on 05. Aug, 2008 by Ralf Herrmann.
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 …
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Posted on 22. Jul, 2008 by Ralf Herrmann.
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Posted on 08. Jul, 2008 by Ralf Herrmann.
When I first saw a digital version of the Polish traffic typeface, I though I must have gotten a really bad digitization. It had characters which were obviously cut off by mistake …
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Posted on 19. Jun, 2008 by Ralf Herrmann.
Yes, I do love .info domains. After typografie.info, fonts.info and opentype.info here is a new project: webfonts.info. A place to bring the people together, who are involved or interested in downloadable webfonts. The site has a forum for discussions and a Wiki with a generous Creative Commons license to collect information, links and code samples.
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Posted on 14. Jun, 2008 by Ralf Herrmann.
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 on the [...]
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Posted on 05. Jun, 2008 by Ralf Herrmann.
I had mixed emotions when Adobe announced to swallow Macromedia. But it was also obvious that this would someday lead to better text support in applications like Flash. With the Flash Player 10 this becomes finally reality. Flash Player 10 will support a large number of languages (including right-to-left and top-to-bottom writing systems) and many [...]
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Posted on 05. Jun, 2008 by Ralf Herrmann.
Which typeface could I use for the movie “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” Maybe Emigre’s Brothers?
Designing a logo for the “Hotel Broadway”? Let’s try the font Broadway!
Yes, that’s certainly a “Lack of typographic Imagination”! Stephen Coles (typographica.org) and Ivo Gabrowitsch (fontwerk.com) created the Flickr group LTypI to collect these hilarious font choices.
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Posted on 18. Mai, 2008 by Ralf Herrmann.
The official traffic typeface in Germany is called DIN 1451 and has a very long history …
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Posted on 14. Mai, 2008 by Ralf Herrmann.
Embeddable webfonts (as introduced with Safari 3.1) are not just about using fancy fonts on web pages. It also opens new possibilities for using glyphs that are simply not available in the standard system fonts. Let’s say you are a linguist or archeologist and wan’t to set an ancient text and you need characters [...]
