Category Archives: Typography
How to Use Custom Fonts with @font-face on WordPress
Posted on 22'13 Jan
This is a guest article by Matt Russell. Using custom fonts is a fantastic way to help create a unique look for your site. There are currently a number of different methods for embedding fonts onto a website several of [..]
Future of Web Design Conference – Day 1 Review
Posted on 07'11 Nov
A few weeks back I announced the 2011 Future of Web Design Conference being held in NYC and today I attended Day 1 of the event. Below is a summary of the talks I attended. As a disclaimer, these notes [..]
8 New Sans-Serif Fonts
Posted on 10'11 Jun
Here are a bunch of ‘new’, clean, sans-serif fonts that have caught my eye recently. I found these by browsing MyFonts, Typetoken and YouWorkForThem. Have you got a recent find to share? Please do. Neuzeit Grotesk A modest, clean, linear [..]
An Introduction to Font Accessibility
Posted on 26'11 Jan
This is a guest article from Jennifer Moline*. Accessibility of images is emphasised during web design training, but an equally important issue that is much less discussed is font accessibility. While images require alt text tags to enable the visually [..]
How to Make Money Marketing Your Font
Posted on 14'10 Dec
This is a guest article by Sonia Mansfield*. Last week you learned how to make your own fonts, now you can learn how to make money from them… Marketing the fonts you create is much like marketing anything on the [..]
How To Make Your Own Fonts
Posted on 23'10 Nov
This is a guest article from Sonia Mansfield*. So you want to be a Fontographer—boldly traversing a sea of letters, mapping new alphabets with naught but a pencil and mouse for companionship. Or maybe you simply have a vision for [..]
Classic Fonts For Contemporary Design
Posted on 23'10 Mar
– ‘Typeface: Classic Typography for Contemporary Design‘ is a book that showcases 46 classic fonts, outlining background information on each, along with examples of contemporary designs that utilise each face. It’s my new favourite typographic inspiration book. Apart from the [..]