Typography
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Basics
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typography
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typesetting
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typeface
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typeface_anatomy
- W3C: CSS Fonts Module Level 3
- HTML5 Rocks: Quick Guide to implement webfonts via @font-face - HTML5 Rocks - Aug. 2, 2010
- The history of a model for fonts on the Web - w3c talk
- Wikipedia: Web Open Font Format
- @font-face generator - Font Squirrel service for converting to webfonts
- sfnt2woff - convert existing TrueType/OpenType fonts to WOFF format
- Microsoft: The New Web Typography - -font-feature-settings
Articles
- Web Design is 95% Typography - iA, Oct 2006
- Typographic Design Patterns and Best Practices
- http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2011/03/14/technical-web-typography-guidelines-and-techniques/
- 50 Helpful Typography Tools And Resources - May 6th, 2010
- The Perfect Paragraph - Nov 29th, 2011
- One More Time: Typography Is The Foundation Of Web Design - July 24th, 2012
- http://alexpoole.info/blog/which-are-more-legible-serif-or-sans-serif-typefaces/
- http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/11/04/best-practices-of-combining-typefaces/
- http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/comments/five-simple-steps-to-better-typography
Video
Forum
Fonts
Linux
Windows
Tools
- font-manager - A font management application for the GNOME desktop
- http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/man1/defoma.1.html - debian font app.
- http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?xlsfonts+1 - list x fonts
- http://typezebra.com/ - see all locoal fonts in browser
Web
Font stack
Ampersand
- http://css-tricks.com/using-the-best-ampersand-available/
- http://simplebits.com/notebook/2008/08/14/ampersands-2/
- http://floatleft.com/notebook/a-better-best-ampersand
- http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/08/15/ampersands-with-attitude/
- http://blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/articles/the-funkiest-ampersands-you-have-ever-seen
Type
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_type
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italic_type
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_type
Antiqua
Serif
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garamond
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_New_Roman
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_(typeface) - similar to timew new roman but with wider serifs
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabon
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_Type_Family
- FreeSerif (gnu font)
- Calluna - exljbris
- "PT Serif"
- http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/capearcona/ca-normal-serif/regular/
- http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/fontbureau/ibis-text/extra-light/
- http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/index_html#Fonts
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodoni - modern
Baskerville
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baskerville is a transitional serif typeface designed in 1757. 'winner' of NYT gravitas test
- http://fontslate.info/typefaces/baskerville.html
- http://klepas.org/openbaskerville/
- http://www.fontspace.com/open-baskerville-project/open-baskerville
- http://www.impallari.com/projects/overview/libre-baskerville
- http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Libre+Baskerville3
- http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/libre-baskerville
Sans-serif
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futura_(typeface)
- http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Cantarell
- http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Exo
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvetica - Grotesque sans serif classic
Humanist
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucida_Grande - Almost all glyphs in Lucida Grande (and Lucida Grande Bold) look identical to their matching counterparts in Lucida Sans (and Lucida Sans Demibold) as well as Lucida Sans Unicode
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segoe used by ms
Heading
- http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/muli
- Trade Gothic Bold"
Slab serif
Monospace
- Monospace/Fixed Width Programmer's Fonts
- Anonymous Pro: a programming font with style
- Slant: What Are The Best Programming Fonts?
- Top 7 Open Source Monospace Fonts for Developers Comments
- SU: Monospaced bitmap programmer’s font at big sizes (14pt+)
- http://alexandre.deverteuil.net/consolefonts/consolefonts.html
- http://leetless.de/article-tiny-fonts.html
- Terminus Font is a clean, fixed width bitmap font, designed for long (8 and more hours per day) work with computers. Version 4.38 contains 879 characters, covers about 120 language sets and supports ISO8859-1/2/5/7/9/13/15/16, Paratype-PT154/PT254, KOI8-R/U/E/F, Esperanto, many IBM, Windows and Macintosh code pages, as well as the IBM VGA, vt100 and xterm pseudographic characters. The sizes present are 6x12, 8x14, 8x16, 10x18, 10x20, 11x22, 12x24, 14x28 and 16x32. The styles are normal and bold (except for 6x12), plus EGA/VGA-bold for 8x14 and 8x16.
- Inconsolata is a monospace font, designed for code listings and the like, in print. First and foremost, Inconsolata is a humanist sans design. I strove for the clarity and clean lines of Adrian Frutiger's Avenir (the lowercase "a", in particular, pays homage to this wonderful design), but also looked to Morris Fuller Benton's Franklin Gothic family for guidance on some of my favorite glyphs, such as lowercase "g" and "S", and, most especially, the numerals. Designing a monospace font poses unique challenges. I have carefully studied many other monospaced fonts to see how they solve these problems. Many of the available monospace fonts are adaptations of existing proportionally-spaced fonts, but some, such as Letter Gothic, draw strength from being their own designs. I hope Inconsolata upholds that tradition.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inconsolata
- slightly too wide?
- Gohufont is a monospace bitmap font well suited for programming and terminal use. It is intended to be very legible and offers very discernable glyphs for all characters, including signs and symbols. The small 11 px version is perfect for laptops and netbooks as it enables to fit more text into their small screens. The 14 px is ideal for desktop screens where you sit farther away from it and the 11 px would be too small.
- Arch forum: Gohufont : a tiny monospace bitmap font
- wack char spacing!?
- ProFont is a small bitmap font which is absolutely great for programming. It was made for Macintosh computers, but now it's also available for Windows and Linux/UNIX X Windows.
- bold letters touch (or merge..)
- proggy_fonts - Monospaced Bitmap Programming Fonts. Each font only comes in one size that it looks good at. The ttf fonts should also be used at their intended point size as they are basically conversions of the pixel based bitmap versions. The fonts were optimized while coding in C or C++... for this reason, characters like the '*' were placed vertically centered, as '*' usually means dereference or multiply, but never 'to the power of' like in Fortran.
- Silkscreen is a four member type family for your Web graphics created by Jason Kottke. Silkscreen, with both Mac and Windows versions, is free for personal and corporate use. There is more information about Silkscreen, including terms of use, in the FAQ below.
- tom-thumb.bdf - A very tiny, monospace, bitmap font
- MonteCarlo is a bitmap font suitable for code editors. All the characters have the same width, which is ideal for alignment. It is loosely derived from the look of the Monaco screen font that was available on the old MacOS systems. Some changes have been made to make it easier to differentiate certain symbols.
- The M+ OUTLINE FONTS are distributed with proportional Latin (4 variations), fixed-halfwidth Latin (3 variations) and fixed-fullwidth Japanese (2 Kana variations) character set. 7 weights from Thin to Black are included, but fixed-halfwidth Latin with 5 weights from Thin to Bold.
Modernist/techno
- http://www.dafont.com/symtext.font?fpp=50&sort=date
- http://www.dafont.com/stitches.font
- http://www.dafont.com/imagine-font.font
- http://www.dafont.com/blox.font
- http://www.dafont.com/hexagon.font
- http://www.dafont.com/particulator.font
- http://www.dafont.com/grapple-brk.font
- http://www.dafont.com/simpletype.font
- http://www.dafont.com/supreme-fontaliciou.font
- http://www.dafont.com/demon-cubic-block-f.font
- http://www.dafont.com/quadro.font
- http://www.dafont.com/square-one.font
- http://www.dafont.com/smprvl.font
- http://www.2ality.com/2012/12/new-samuel.html - morse code inspired
Cursive
Other
- http://www.pgdp.net/c/faq/font_sample.php?compare=Arial - OCR proofreading
- http://www.cbrd.co.uk/fonts/ - transport
- http://idsgn.org/posts/comic-sans-comic-serif/
- http://robmientjes.nl/item/comic-serif
- http://www.fontgrill.com/fonts/free/comic-serif/comic-serif.php
Microsoft
Repos and foundries
Places with lots of free (and other) fonts. To be categorised.
- http://typophile.com/node/53444
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Free_and_open_source_typography
Large repos
- http://www.fontsquirrel.com/
- http://openfontlibrary.org/
- http://www.dafont.com/
- http://www.exljbris.com/
- http://www.fontex.org/free.html
- http://www.fontyukle.net/en/
- http://www.1001freefonts.com/
foundry;
Smaller collections
- http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=OFL_fonts - ofl licensed
- http://theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
- http://www.feorag.com/freestuff/
- http://iginomarini.com/fell/the-revival-fonts/
- http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/adffonts.html
Web fonts
@font-face { font-family: 'Font Name'; src: url('library/fonts/font-name.eot'); src: url('library/fonts/font-name.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'), url('library/fonts/font-name.woff') format('woff'), url('library/fonts/font-name.ttf') format('truetype'), url('library/fonts/font-name.svg#font-name') format('svg'); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; }
- Font Squirrel: @font-face Kit Generator - Create font set to cover all browsers.
- Web Font Performance: Weighing @font-face Options and Alternatives - Feb 27th, 2012 - really good!
- stackoverflow: @font-face: bold in FF is bolder than in Chrome
License
Repos, etc.
Tools
- http://www.wordmark.it/ - previews
- http://somadesign.ca/projects/fontfriend/ - bookmarklet
- Fontue is a Rack-based, open-source, web font server built for Kernest.com
- Responsive Type References - reference for comparing responsive use of [web]fonts
Kerning
Webfont icons
- Avoiding the blurs: web font icon rendering - 2 July, 2012
- http://functionn.in/2012/11/the-best-free-iconic-web-fonts.html - large number of examples
- http://icomoon.io/ - generator and sets
- http://css-tricks.com/examples/IconFont/
- http://blog.fogcreek.com/trello-uses-an-icon-font-and-so-can-you/
Guides
- How to make your own icon webfont - Jan 2, 2012
- Make a dingbat font with Inkscape
- YouTube: How to Make a Font with Inkscape 0.47
Sets
You should be using a generator tool or service to save on font file size for production.
- Font Awesome - The iconic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap
- OpenWeb Icons [11] - a slew of open standard and protocol icons
- Modern Pictograms is a typeface for interface designers and programmers. Designed in early 2011 for the Flatfile Wordpress theme, the pictograms stay sharp when used large or small. OpenType file for mockups or drop in the @font-face code into your CSS. Designed to work on web sites at sizes down to 18 pixels, but best at higher than 24 pixels.
- Entypo is a set of 250+ carefully crafted pictograms. The package contains an icon font — OpenType, TrueType and @font-face — EPS, PDF and PSD files. All released for free under the license CC BY-SA 3.0.
- iconmonstr - Free simple icons for your next project.
- Meteocons is a set of weather icons, it containing 40+ icons available in PSD, CSH, EPS, SVG, Desktop font and Web font. All icon and updates are free and always will be.
- Typicons are free-to-use vector icons embedded in a webfont kit for easy use in your UI, whether it be on the web or in a native application.
- The Noun Project is building a global visual language that everyone can understand. We want to enable our users to visually communicate anything to anyone.
- Ligature Symbols is WebFont project to display the symbol with a ligature features. SIL.
- Batch - A lovingly designed and crafted suite of 300+ icons for web and user interface design. Each icon in the Batch PSD is a single shape layer, meaning they can be scaled up—or down—without loss of quality. The download includes the Batch PSD, SVGs (128x128) and PNGs (16x16, 32x32, 64x64).
- Elusive Icons - 268 Sleek vector icons for bootstrap.
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Tools
- http://www.freefontconverter.com/
- http://www.font2web.com/
- http://www.fontconverter.org/
- http://onlinefontconverter.com/
Generators
- Font Custom - Generate custom icon webfonts from the comfort of the command line.
- https://github.com/endtwist/fontcustom/
- Bootstrap-ready
- Fontello - icon fonts generator
- IcoMoon - Crowse and select icons to download them or make a font. You can import SVG images or fonts
See also HTML/CSS#Buttons
Support
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=137692
- windows chrome bit iffy
Crossbrowser
Examples
- http://blog.echoenduring.com/2010/05/13/create-beautiful-css3-typography/
- http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/subtle-css3-typography-that-youd-swear-was-made-in-photoshop/
- http://line25.com/tutorials/create-a-letterpress-effect-with-css-text-shadow
- http://designshack.net/articles/css/css3-cookbook-7-super-easy-css-recipes-to-copy-and-paste
- http://seanmcb.com/get-the-look/hand-painted-sign/
- http://tympanus.net/codrops/2012/09/12/creative-web-typography-styles/
Responsive
- Responsive Typography: The Basics - June 2012
vw, vh, vmin: ie and chrome, fallback with fittext.js
- Responsive viewport units (vw, vh, and vmin) - Apr, 2012
- Viewport Sized Typography - Apr 30 2012
- Fluid Type - June 19th, 2012
- Responsive text - different sort of responsive
- Is There Ever A Justification For Responsive Text?
Units
Set p size first or use 100% for the usual browser default (16px).
- How to size text using ems - 18 May 2004
font-size: 62.5%; set 1em equal to 10px
- Font sizing with rem - CSS3 unit
The em unit is relative to the font-size of the parent, which causes the compounding issue. The rem unit is relative to the root—or the html—element. That means that we can define a single font size on the html element and define all rem units to be a percentage of that.
Scale
- traditional scale (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 21, 24, 36, 48, 60, 72)
- Fibonacci sequence (e.g. 16 – 24 – 40 – 64 – 104)
copy font size
- x1.5 line height
- x27.8 line length
Kerning
- http://adamdscott.com/typography/kerning-for-the-web/
- http://designshack.net/articles/typography/kerning-live-web-type-with-jquery-and-lettering-js/
- http://blog.typekit.com/2011/06/03/type-study-a-better-kerning-experience-with-kern-js/
- http://logofontandlettering.com/kernking.html - kerning ipsum
Framework
Software
- http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/xfontsel.1.html
- http://gtk2fontsel.sourceforge.net/
- http://opcion.sourceforge.net/
- https://live.gnome.org/Gucharmap
- https://github.com/siyb/fontviewer
- https://github.com/monkeyinmysoup/FindThatFont-
Management
Creating
- FontForge - An outline font editor that lets you create your own postscript, truetype, opentype, cid-keyed, multi-master, cff, svg and bitmap (bdf, FON, NFNT) fonts, or edit existing ones. Also lets you convert one format to another.
Symbols
- Symbol Entities in HTML & XHTML
- Dingbats - 191 characters. A visual unicode database