Ob Altenglisch, Frühneuhochdeutsch oder Altnordisch – Peter Baker vereint in seinem Font-Projekt »Elstob« fast schon vergessene Glyphen mittelalterlicher Sprachen. Entstanden ist eine umfangreich ausgebaute Schriftfamilie, die es kostenlos zum Herunterladen gibt.
Webfonts were great when most computers only had a handful of good fonts pre-installed. Thanks to font creation and buying by Apple, Microsoft, Google, and other folks, most computers have good - no, great - fonts installed, and they're a great option if you want to not load a separate font.
Fonts matter more than we may realize; they’re as important a choice in determining the visual impact and informational flow of a web page as the color scheme or the navigation layout.
Freetype, included in the font stack on Unix, is quite complex. There are so many layers to get it to do what it does that it's easy to get lost. From finding the font, to actually rendering it, and everything in between. Like most of the world, I use a rather low screens definition (1366x768 with 96 dpi) and rather old-ish laptop, unlike some f...
If you use Google Fonts on your website or web application, a few additional steps can lead to much faster load times. In this article, I will show you how to: Google Fonts is hosted on a pretty fast…
One of the most common questions I receive from beginning UI designers is: what font size should I use for my project? Maybe it’s a website, maybe an Android app, maybe iPhone/iPad. Ever wish someone had compiled all the rules in one place?
This is a personal selection of beautiful, classy, punk, professional, incomplete, weird typefaces. Open source licenses make them free to use and modify.
Egal ob in einem Buch, einer Zeitschrift oder am Bildschirm -- die Schriftarten von Matthew Carter haben Sie mit Sicherheit schon einmal gesehen. Mit viel Ch...
I started looking at fonts some months ago, and have been writing down a list of better quality typefaces that come free of charge. Some of these are open-source.