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Richard Rutter : Better font rendering with DirectWrite - Links to comparison with ClearType.
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Douglas Bowman : Tal Leming on Web Fonts - Seemingly reasonable middle-ground suggestions here that would allow web typography to move forward, allow people to use all the free fonts they want, yet continue to allow type designers to earn a living. link
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Douglas Bowman : Cufón - Fast text replacement with canvas and VML – no Flash or images required. Oooh. Must experiment with this soon. (via @hicksdesign)link [via]
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Douglas Bowman : Introducing Typekit - Emphasis is my own… As a Typekit user, you’ll have access to our library of high-quality fonts. Just add a line of JavaScript to your markup, tell us what fonts you want to use, and then craft your pages the way you always have. Except now you’l
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Andy Baio : The Effing Typeface - a NSFW font by designer Alex Merto
Rod Begbie : Effing Typeface - Rude typography. [via] #
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Rod Begbie : Hot Pockets Ingredients - Appetizing typography. #
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Richard Rutter : Review of Bruno Maag’s and my BrightType talks - With comments from both of us.
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philgyford : Revised Font Stack | A Way Back - More thoughts on good CSS font stacks. (via Tom Taylor)
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deusx : Stefano’s Linotype » The screen mimics the sky, not the earth - "The screen mimics the sky, not the earth. It bombards the eye with light instead of waiting to repay the gift of vision. It is not simultaneously restful and lively, like a field full of flowers, or the face of a thinking human being, or a well-made
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Richard Rutter : Fonts supplied with Windows 7 - Handy list from Ascender..
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joshua : Beautiful fixed-width fonts for OSX - i missed you, fixed 6x13
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Greg Storey : Twenty years of FontShop with Erik Spiekermann. - The man can do no wrong. #
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Richard Rutter : Web-safe Fonts - List of fonts likely to be installed – a bit like the font matrix.
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Richard Rutter : Browser Choice vs Font Rendering - Phinney on Fonts.
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Richard Rutter : Ligature, Loop & Stem - Limited edition design and typography products for refined tastes.
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Richard Rutter : Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Typeface - by Michael Beirut in Design Observer.
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Jeremy Zawodny : Word Processors: Stupid and Inefficient - Word Processors: Stupid and Inefficient: well, duh
deusx : Word Processors: Stupid and Inefficient - "The word processor is a stupid and grossly inefficient tool for preparing text for communication with others. Preparing printable text using a word processor effectively forces you to conflate two tasks that are conceptually distinct and that, to en
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Greg Storey : On web typography. - This article as a must read for every web designer. #
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Greg Storey : Web font specimen. - Read, study, download, and add to your design process. #
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Richard Rutter : How to use CSS @font-face - Superb compilation of webfonts facts from Tim Brown.
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Greg Storey : WOFF File Format. - This is the first you're going to hear about this from me. #
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Greg Storey : As I recall, Cederholm once told me that he reads Playboy for the typography. - Now I know why. #
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