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Use titling figures with full caps, and text figures in all other circumstances 17 Apr 2008 | 05:15 am
When arabic numerals joined the roman alphabet, they too were given both lowercase and uppercase forms. Typographers call the former text figures, hanging figures, lowercase figures, or old-style figu...
Don't compose without a scale 5 Feb 2008 | 07:14 am
In the sixteenth century, a series of common sizes developed among European typographers, and the series survived with little change and few additions for 400 years. [...] Use the old familiar scale, ...
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More fonts for the web twob.net 11 May 2010 | 11:16 pm
Typography for the web is on the roll. Sites like fontsquirrel and fontspring offer loads of free and open-source embeddable fonts for hosting on your own server, and hosted solutions like typekit.co...
10 tips for web typography sarfarazhanfi.com 22 Oct 2010 | 11:03 am
1. Use quote and dashes; not primes and hyphens 2. Don’t rely on a browser’s default margins and indentations 3. Design to a scale 4. Limit you number of typefaces and font sizes 5. Ensure line le...
Ampersand, the Aftermath jontangerine.com 23 Jun 2011 | 07:28 am
The first Ampersand web typography conference took place in Brighton last Friday. Ampersand was ace. I’m going to say that again with emphasis: Ampersand was ace! Like the Ready Brek kid from the 80s ...
Design Festival, The Setup, and Upcoming Posts jontangerine.com 21 Jun 2011 | 12:22 am
Wow, this has been a busy period. I’m just back from the Ampersand web typography conference in Brighton, and having a catch-up day in Mild Bunch HQ. Just before that I’ve been working flat out. First...
Firefox 3.5 and the potential of Web typography webmeter.blogspot.com 6 Jul 2009 | 05:02 pm
In addition to new features such as support for HTML 5, geo-location, and a noticeably faster engine, Firefox 3.5 added a new CSS rule that makes Web typography much more attractive. @font-face is a ...
Growing freedom in web typography pynto.com 24 Feb 2012 | 02:02 am
Pynto Nowadays we can use all kinds of weird and wonderful fonts on the web. Here is a lovely font for a landscape gardening business perhaps The traditional set of Arial, Times, Helvetica, Georgia...
Elegant Examples of Embossed Typography in Web design designerterminal.com 20 Sep 2011 | 12:39 am
Embossing is the process of creating a three-dimensional image or design in paper and other materials. Nowadays people are using this technique in web typography also. Although it is awesome to look a...
Create Beautiful Web Typography using @Font-Face slicescript.com 28 Feb 2012 | 03:00 am
Gone are the days of having to use images to accomplish aesthetic type on the web. The CSS @font-face rule now allows us to embed beautiful typefaces directly into our web designs. In this tutorial, w...
Introducing a Body Text Tester blog.fontdeck.com 23 May 2012 | 09:17 pm
Inspired by Jason Santa Maria’s terrific talk at last year’s Ampersand web typography conference*, our own Richard Rutter created a simple body text tester. In his presentation, Jason talked about th...
Type-a-file - Ready-to-go CSS style-sheets for effective, versatile web typography. strangenative.com 23 Aug 2011 | 03:10 am
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