» 8 fonts you probably don’t use in css, but should - Web Design Marketing Podcast & Blog

Sat, 10 May 2008 10:39:17 -0000

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.

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5 Principles And Ideas Of Setting Type On The Web | How-To | Smashing Magazine

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:51:16 -0000

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.

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» 8 fonts you probably don’t use in css, but should - Web Design Marketing Podcast & Blog

5 Principles And Ideas Of Setting Type On The Web | How-To | Smashing Magazine