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Richard Rutter : Better font rendering with DirectWrite - Links to comparison with ClearType.
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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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philgyford : Revised Font Stack | A Way Back - More thoughts on good CSS font stacks. (via Tom Taylor)
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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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Rod Begbie : Comicraft Fonts $20.10 Sale - Comicraft does an annual new year's day sale where they sell all their fonts for ~$20. Completely bargainous, since they are usually priced in the $100s. I bought a bunch last year, and have found them indispensable. [via] #
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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 : Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Typeface - by Michael Beirut in Design Observer.
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nelson : VT220 rendering - I love all the weird hacks of old graphics hardware
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Jeremy Zawodny : Hacking with Style: TrueType VT220 Font - Hacking with Style: TrueType VT220 Font: that is crazy yet brilliant at the same time... I love it
nelson : vt220.ttf - Someone makes a TrueType font that looks like an old VT220 terminal
Rod Begbie : Hacking with Style: TrueType VT220 Font - I can think of no better use for my new 30" monitor at work than to use this font based on original VT220 terminals at a large size. [via] #
joshua : Hacking with Style: TrueType VT220 Font
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Richard Rutter : Font Squirrel - Hundreds of free @font-face font kits which include TTF and EOT files.
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deusx : Text Anti-Aliasing - How to disable? | ActiveState Community Site - "defaults write com.activestate.Komodo AppleAntiAliasingThreshold 20"
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Andy Baio : Kernest - like Typekit for free, legal typefaces
wearehugh : Bringing Web Fonts Closer | Kernest - fuck the foundries
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Richard Rutter : Mozilla’s John Daggett on @font-face - Pretty complete write-up.
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Richard Rutter : Why EOT really didn’t make it into Gecko and Webkit - It was down to the lawyers..
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nelson : Typekit - Jeff Veen and the folks at Small Batch are providing a font embedding service
Andy Baio : Jeff Veen announces Typekit, licensing and hosting for web font embedding - short on details, but glad someone clever's trying to bridge the gap between developers and foundries
cobra libre : Introducing TypeKit - I hope this is as good as it sounds. #
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Richard Rutter : A fine explanation of type hinting - 10 years old form the Microsoft typography team, but still relevant.
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Richard Rutter : Fonts Working Group - The mission of the Fonts Working Group, part of the Fonts Activity, is to allow wider use of fonts on the Web by identifying a font format that can be supported by all user agents, balancing font vendor concerns with the needs of authors and users and the
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Richard Rutter : Open Font Library - Collects free software fonts – those that may be used, changed and shared freely.
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joshua : Hacker News | Top Programming Fonts
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nelson : Dynamic web fonts and DRM - Mark Pilgrim, as always, eloquent
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