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Posts Tagged ‘Typography’
What should you look for in a UI typeface
A good look of what makes a typeface good for screen use and UI design.
Kern Type: The kerning game
Fun, educational and just what the type doctor ordered. Check it out on the iPad for some multitouch love as well.
The relevance of the baseline grid
Elliot Jay Stocks discusses how the baseline grid informs the design and drives the typography. Check it out.
Hyphenation arrives in Firefox and Safari
Big thanks to Fontdeck’s blog for pointing this out: Hyphenation is now supported in Safari 5.1 and Firefox 6. Here’s how to add the CSS3 rule: p { hyphens:auto; } Well, almost. In reality Firefox and Safari still only support vendor prefixes of the hyphens property (which is fair enough as the spec is still aworking draft) so [...]
My favorite Typekit typefaces
I’ve been longing for a way to save and organize Typekit‘s typefaces, so I took it upon myself and have been using Gimme Bar to tag and collect my (growing) collection of favorite fonts.
