5 of the Best CSS3 Font Tools Fonts have made the most dramatic visual impact on the web since graphic support was added to browsers. A few years ago, it would be impossible to find a website using anything other than Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, Times New Roman or Georgia (or, heaven forbid, Comic Sans). While there’s nothing wrong with standard font stacks, they can become a little monotonous. Internet Explorer has supported web fonts for more than a decade but it’s taken competing browsers a little longer to catch up. Licensing is still an issue — you can’t use any commercial font — but you should be able to find one which permits web usage or is similar to your corporate style.
The 40 best free web fonts It's time-consuming to cut through the ocean of free fonts online, especially web fonts, to find the real gems that punch above their price tag. With this in mind, we've rounded up the greatest free web fonts from around the internet to get you started. There are various methods to source and license web fonts, including subscription-based models such as Typekit and Fontspring, which boast libraries of quality typefaces that are becoming increasingly popular with professional designers. If you're on a tight budget, however, or are just looking to experiment on a smaller project, there are plenty of good web fonts available at no cost if you know where to look. Luckily, we've done the hard work for you, and have put together this list of the best free web fonts around at the moment.
O’Reilly TopicsGo! Welcome back. Please sign in. Welcome back. {* #userInformationForm *} {* traditionalSignIn_emailAddress *} {* traditionalSignIn_password *} {* traditionalSignIn_signInButton *} {* /userInformationForm *} The best new fonts, August 2014 With the end of summer rapidly approaching, now is the perfect time to update your collection of fonts! Okay, so here at WebdesignerDepot, every day is the perfect day to update our font collections, but with fall heralding the return to school or work for many of our readers, there’s an extra push to stock up on new and interesting fonts to impress those colleagues, professors (or students!) with your typography prowess.
Responsive Font Size with CSS Making your font-size respond to viewport or container size should be a must to complete your responsive designs. Having a fixed font-size accross devices is not always a good idea. The key point is to get a readable font size and a comfortable line length in most viewports. CSS viewport units and media queries provide the means to implement a responsive font size. Font Size and Line Length There are lots of different views on which is the best pixel font size, or which is the minimum readable size.
Typography - 20 Free High Quality Script Fonts Hello all! Hope all is going well. This past weekend was my birthday, and we did a bit of over-celebrating! (Which is the main reason there was no post this weekend :) ) Now I’m back to bring yall some great, high-quality free Script fonts. As with all free fonts, its often hard to find really good ones. But I think I’ve managed to compile a very good list of free script fonts, from handwritten to grunge. TimeViz Browser Imrich, P.; Mueller, K.; Imre, D.; Zelenyuk, D. & Zhu, W.: Interactive Poster: 3D ThemeRiver. Poster Compendium of IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis), IEEE Computer Society, 2003. Imrich, P.; Mueller, K.; Imre, D.; Zelenyuk, D. & Zhu, W. (2003), © 2003 IEEE. Used with permission. Image courtesy of Ben Fry, MIT Media Laboratory, Aesthetics + Computation Group, © 1999-2005.
65 Beautiful Fonts You Can Download For Free Freebie 65 Beautiful Fonts You Can Download For Free by Alex on Aug 9, 2012 • 9:43 am 17 Comments There are so many free fonts all around the web these days and sometimes it makes me think is their any really point purchasing fonts.