“A typographic starter kit encouraging great type on the Web”
The Font-Bot Project »
September 15, 2011 -
Create a robot purely with typography and pit it against other robots on the site.
Lost Type Co-op »
May 16, 2011 -
“founded with the intention of providing unique and quality fonts based on a pay-what-you-want model. All designers get 100% of the donations their font receives.”
FitText – A plugin for inflating web type »
May 10, 2011 -
From the makers of Lettering.js comes another awesome jQuery type-focused plugin: “FitText makes font-sizes flexible. Use this plugin on your fluid or responsive layout to achieve scalable headlines that fill the width of a parent element.” Yet again, @trentwalton, @davatron5000 and @raygunray release a killer utility that developers, designers and users alike will benefit from.
The timing of this release meshes perfectly with my redesign of Refresh Austin.
FFFFALLBACK – A simple tool for bulletproof web typography. »
April 22, 2011 -
“FFFFALLBACK makes it easy to find the perfect fallback fonts, so that your designs degrade gracefully”
WhatFont Bookmarklet »
April 6, 2011 -
A bookmarklet that tells you what font is being used on a Web page when you hover over the text.
Orpheus Pro™ Webfont & Desktop font »
March 17, 2011 -
Absolutely gorgeous. I want the full set, including the Webfont license.
Open Source Ampersands »
March 8, 2011 -
A collection of single-character, open source webfont sets, which only contain ampersands.
Why You Hate Comic Sans »
January 26, 2011 -
“So, the story of Comic Sans is not that of a really terrible font, but rather of a mediocre font, used incorrectly on a massive scale”
wordmark.it »
January 4, 2011 -
A Web page that makes it easy to preview text using all of the fonts installed on your system.
wordmark.it »
January 4, 2011 -
A Web page that makes it easy to preview text using all of the fonts installed on your system.
The Great Typekit Table »
November 15, 2010 -
The folks at Sleepover have compiled a sortable list of Typekit-powered fonts that meet two key guidelines: "first, the font had to have lower case, upper case, bold, italic, and bold italic; second, the font couldn’t be handwriting, script, or monospace."