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FontFriend – Soma Design

FontFriend – Soma Design
FontFriend is a bookmarklet for typographically obsessed web designers. It enables rapid checking of fonts and font styles directly in the browser without editing code and refreshing pages, making it the ideal companion for creating CSS font stacks. 2.0’s killer feature is instant drag-and-drop font previewing right in the browser (Firefox 3.6+, Chrome 7+), in any document you’re currently viewing. Version 2.5 and 3.0 introduced some new features that aren’t documented here yet. Click the version numbers to see the release announcements for each. How To Begin First, drag the following link to your browser toolbar: Then, view the following screencast, as any information new to v2.0 is in it. How To Use A CSS selector is chosen from the Selector column—body by default. Additional Usage Click the large F to show or hide the overlayClick the faint S in the lower right corner to reset all styles (Caution: this is an intensive operation that could take down your browser on a very complex site.

FFFFALLBACK - A simple tool for bulletproof web typography. The Web's biggest Vector Icons Pack: 1500 icons for Wireframes and Interface Design 1500 vector icons for webdesign A few icons previewed at 48 pixels Select, modify, delete Tag, bookmark, vote Graphic tools Communication, mails, discussions Users, personas Commerce, business, delivery Places, maps, pins Programs, code, databases Multimedia, photos, videos Content, documents, organization Object, clothes Download, upload, transfer Files, folders Text, editor, layouts Interface, GUI elements Validate, cancel Settings, time, keyboard Food, leisure, weather, transportation Health, hospital, medecine Arrows, direction Social icons, social logos - Free Bonus by Alex Peattie Included in your Pack License agreement Minicons is created by an Interface Designer for other professionals. You can use these icons for any Web or Graphic templates that you resell. You can use them in your application, and even in templates embedded in your application, with a limit of 100 icons per application You cannot make the icons downloadable, give them away or resell them (even if you modify them).

The mess of web font services Over the last year, we have seen a mass adoption of the @font-face property by all of the major browser vendors. Most type foundries won't license their typefaces to be used on the web because there is no openly supported closed font file type. They all fear that their files will be widely distributed for free and their licensing system will fail. Typekit As the major player in the market, they've set a standards for delivering fonts online. Their engineers have done a ton to eliminate FOUT (flash of unstyled text) to deliver your fonts as fast as possible. Their Browser Samples tool lets you see the typeface rendered in different sizes, in different browsers, in different operating systems. Their yearly rate might be hard for you to sell to your client or boss and many designers are used to paying for a font license upfront and are hesitant to have a yearly font cost. Font Squirrel & Font Spring Font Squirrel promotes 100% free fonts for @font-face embedding. Fontdeck Typotheque Kernest

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