Author: Larry_Yudelson
An interactive introduction to typography for bloggers
kaikkonendesign.fi/typography teaches the basics. Now that we’re all publishers, we all are typographers as well. A tool for teaching.
A beautiful free bilingual Hebrew font
Alef is a new font optimized for usage as a web font. It has distinctive letterforms for both Hebrew and English.Check it out at http://alef.hagilda.com/.
FontBook Now Also Available For iPhone For 99
Did you ever spend $99 for a type specimen book? Did you wish you could justify spending that sum, but went without instead? How about 99 cents? That’s the price for the FontBook app for the iPhone. It makes for fun browsing. And with a Retina screen, the type looks truly gorgeous. One complaint: Why aren’t the Hebrew fonts that FontShop publishes visible on the app?
Web Typography
For those who have been designing web sites for centuries, the recent acceptance of web fonts and the possibilities of HTML typography requires some readjustment. We had our hopes for typography dashed around 1998, when the first type embedding specs were proposed and then not accepted in a cross-browser way; we were afraid to get too invested in the new trends. But cross-browser web fonts are real, and more sophisticated forms of typography are coming down the road, through a combination of fancy JavaScript plugins and some nascent new web standards. All of which is to say, it’s time to start looking at examples of best practices, such as those offered in the following link: http://desgr.com/web-typography-multiple-fonts-in-web-design/