Links tagged with “fonts”
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Some of the best free fonts | Clearleft
For future reference. I also saw Literata suggested. (via @Robb@front-end.social)
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Wakamai Fondue, the tool that answers the question “what can my font do?”
Drop a font on it and it shows you lots of info about it, and displays its characters.
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Bunny Fonts | Explore Faster & GDPR friendly Fonts
“…designed as a privacy-friendly drop-in replacement for Google Fonts holding the same API format.” (via @007@mastodon.scot)
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TT2020 | More Information
Creating a more realistic typewriter font. But I don’t understand why the movies mentioned didn’t use a real typewriter. And don’t get me started on “handwriting” fonts. (via Michael Thai)
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Fontello - icon fonts generator
Create your own icon font using only the icons you need, select from Font Awesome and other free libraries.
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Tinytype
“Find default system fonts that exist across common mobile platforms in the form of a handy compatibility table.” (via Daring Fireball)
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Create Your Own @font-face Kits | Font Squirrel
Upload an OTF etc font and it’s turned into a lovely package of webfonts. Like magic.
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Helvetica: Old and Neue - ITCFonts.com
I’ve never got round to looking up the differences between Helvetica and Helvetica Neue. Now I know. (via Daring Fireball)
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Soyouneedatypeface.jpg 1983×1402 pixels
Nice, and funny, typeface-choosing flowchart. (via Haddock a while back)
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Revised Font Stack | A Way Back
More thoughts on good CSS font stacks. (via Tom Taylor)
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Cufón - fonts for the people
A way to do pretty fonts nicely in web pages other than sIFR. (I haven’t tried it.)
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The first one’s the hardest | i love typography, the typography and fonts blog
Nice description of someone designing their first font over eighteen months. I’d love to try this (you know, if I had ten times the time I do). (via Kottke)
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Font Matrix
Nice grid of what fonts are available in different OSes with different installs of software.
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Unit Interactive :: Blog :: Better CSS Font Stacks
Sensible examples of lists of fonts to use in CSS.
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Facing up to Fonts | Slides and notes
Interesting presentation on which fonts are available to use on the web, and how best to specify combinations of them. (via Blech)
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WhatTheFont : MyFonts
Upload a scanned piece of text and it’ll tell you what font it is. (via Daring Fireball)
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Fawnt - Top free fonts | Font - Archive | Blog Design and Webdesign
What it says. (via Blackbeltjones)
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The Fell Types - My Revival Fonts
Fonts derived from late 17th century printing.
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Usable Cross Browser Font Sizing » Middleware Infrastructure
Magic percentages for getting the same font size on different platforms.
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Common fonts to all versions of Windows & Mac equivalents (Browser safe fonts) - Web design tips & tricks
Because I’m always using losing this and having to Google for it or something similar.
