Proper use and best practices
sIFR is a powerful tool. So powerful, in fact, that you can completely ruin a web page with it if you get overzealous and don’t exercise restraint.
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Rich Typography On The Web: Techniques and Tools « Smashing Magazine - 3 views
50 New CSS Techniques For Your Next Web Design | CSS | Smashing Magazine - 0 views
cufón - fonts for the people - 0 views
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Fast text replacement with canvas and VML - no Flash or images required.
Ajaxian » Towards Using Custom Fonts - 0 views
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custom fonts
8 Definitive Web Font Stacks [Design Tips & Tricks] - 0 views
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Over the last few months, I've spent more time than I intended on exploring the whole idea of fonts and typography for the Web. (My friend, typography expert Simon Pascal Klein, writes, "The former is a stylized set of glyphs of characters," while "the other [is] the whole art of creating type and setting it into the written word." For more clarification and illumination, consult Jon Tan and Mark Simonson.)
In the process, I've been considering the idea of font stacks-using the well-known font-family CSS property-to list as many different fonts as possible in order to optimize the web site experience for a maximum number of users.
jQuery sIFR Plugin - 0 views
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The jQuery sIFR Plugin is an addon for jQuery that makes it easy to replace text in a web page with flash text (sIFR).
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A collection of design related articles, resources, comments and inspiration.
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Typechart - Browse Web Type, Grab CSS. - 0 views
sIFR lite - 0 views
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once upon a time some really good web developers created sIFR. Their goal was to seamlessly convert HTML headlines into nice fonts. Well, these developers did a great job getting it to work nicely. Looking at their code, I decided I would create a "lite" version of sIFR using a more object-oriented approach. sIFR Lite is a bit easier to read, and more intuitive to use. The only drawbacks are that it is currently unproven on a large scale in the real world. This library is of course open-source, so I welcome you to submit any improvements, suggestions, or bug reports using my contact form.
50 Extremely Useful And Powerful CSS Tools | CSS | Smashing Magazine - 0 views
5 Principles And Ideas Of Setting Type On The Web | How-To | Smashing Magazine - 0 views
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here are many ways to approach Web typography in order to create effective and expressive results. Let's take a closer look at some principles, rules and ideas for approaching Web typography decisions - you can use them as a starting point for learning how to achieve effective type setting on the Web.
» 8 fonts you probably don't use in css, but should - Web Design Marketing Podcast & Blog - 0 views
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CSS has brought us many capabilities in terms of typography and the web, but we always seem to be limited to the same 4-5 typefaces over and over again. There is an inherant problem, if the font you specify isn't on the viewers computer it won't render in that font. So as designers and developers we end up selecting the ones that we can safely assume is available on most computers today. So most pages use Arial, Helvetica, or Georgia as their typefaces… and the world of the web remains slightly more bland.
Common fonts to all versions of Windows & Mac equivalents (Browser safe fonts) - Web design... - 0 views
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Another thing to consider is that many Windows users have the Office suite or at least MS Word which comes with many fonts preslected for installation. Also look at the fonts used by OpenOffice and other popular opensource editors.
These additional fonts are also good potential candidates for your font-family!
Mike Davidson - sIFR - 0 views
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sIFR is for headlines, pull quotes, and other small swaths of text
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type which accents the rest of the page. Body copy should remain browser text.
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Optimized dynamic generation of Flash movies bound using javascript to provide rich Font experience regardless of the client. Degrades gracefully. Looks interesting when you just HAVE to have that PERFECT font.
Note that it is NOT intended for full paragraphs or any type of extended passages. Serves a similar function as Text Images.
Five simple steps to better typography : Journal : Mark Boulton - 0 views
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- One point = 1/72 of an inch
- One pica = 12 points
- One em = The distance horizontally equal to the type size, in points, you are using. Eg. 1em of 12pt type is 12pt. (Thanks to Joe for correcting me on this.)
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A general good rule of thumb is 2-3 alphabets in length, or 52-78 characters (including spaces).
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in one line
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Your leading should increase proportionally to your Measure. Small Measure, less leading. Wide Measure, more leading.
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2009 has been a rough ride for many of us, but typographically it has been a triumph. Unlike the serif font family, the