Typography

Basics

• The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web

• 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
• 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://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/hear-all-ye-people-hearken-o-earth/
• http://alexpoole.info/blog/which-are-more-legible-serif-or-sans-serif-typefaces/

Forum

• http://typophile.com/

Fonts

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fonts
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_Configuration

• Build better CSS font stacks

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serif
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sans-serif

= Historic

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiqua_(typeface_class)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baskerville - transitional, 'winner' of NYT gravitas test
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodoni - modern

Tools

• font-manager - A font management application for the GNOME desktop

• http://fontmatrix.net/
  • http://oep-h.com/fontmatrix/
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fontmatrix
  • http://www.straightedgelinux.com/switch/apps/user/fontmatrix.html

• http://opcion.sourceforge.net/
  • http://sourceforge.net/projects/opcion/

• https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fontypython
  • https://launchpad.net/fontypython
  • http://starsunflowerstudio.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/introduction-to-linux-font-management.html

• 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

Terminal

• Monospace/Fixed Width Programmer's Fonts

• http://www.proggyfonts.com/index.php?menu=download
• http://www.kottke.org/plus/type/silkscreen/

Free

Places with lots of free (and other) fonts. To be categorised.

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/

• http://www.fontgirl.com/
• http://www.fontspace.com/
• http://www.fonts2u.com/index.html

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://www.linuxlibertine.org/index.php?id=86&L=1

Font Family

• http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/Main_Page
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/sourcesans.adobe/files/

Other

• https://github.com/greyscalepress/font-specimens

Web fonts

• http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator - create font-face font type set to cover the browser market

• Fontue is a Rack-based, open-source, web font server built for Kernest.com

• Web Font Performance: Weighing @font-face Options and Alternatives - Feb 27th, 2012 - really good!

• http://www.phpied.com/gzip-your-font-face-files/

Repos, etc.

• http://hellohappy.org/beautiful-web-type/ - google web fonts showcase
• good web fonts - blog

• http://www.fontspring.com/free

Sans-serif

• http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Cantarell

heading;

• http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/muli

Webfont icons

• Avoiding the blurs: web font icon rendering - 2 July, 2012

Guides

• How to make your own icon webfont - Jan 2, 2012

• Webkit subpixel aliasing and icon fonts [1]

• Make a dingbat font with Inkscape
• YouTube: How to Make a Font with Inkscape 0.47

• HN: Why using Fonts as Icons can prove tricky: Subpixel Aliasing and Webkit

Sets

• OpenWeb Icons [2] - Font Awesome had no RSS-icon plus Open Web
  • https://github.com/pfefferle/openwebicons

• Font Awesome - The iconic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap
  • https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome

• Zocial button set with CSS. Entirely vector-based social buttons.
  • https://github.com/samcollins/css-social-buttons

• 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. Install the OpenType file for Photoshop mockups and drop in the @font-face code into your CSS to embed them right in your Web page. Designed to work on web sites at sizes down to 18 pixels, but best at higher than 24 pixels.

• http://pictos.cc/

• Symbolset - $

• http://nicolasgallagher.com/lab/css3-social-signin-buttons/
• http://nicolasgallagher.com/lab/css3-facebook-buttons/

• http://fontello.com/ - generate sets!

• http://www.alessioatzeni.com/meteocons/ - weather icons

Responsive

• Responsive Typography: The Basics- June 2012
• Fluid Type - June 19th, 2012
• Responsive Type References - reference for comparing responsive use of [web]fonts

• stackoverflow: @font-face: bold in FF is bolder than in Chrome

Units

• EmChart

• 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://www.w3.org/TR/css3-fonts/#font-kerning-prop
• http://adamdscott.com/typography/kerning-for-the-web/

• 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

Software

• http://oep-h.com/fontmatrix/

Symbols

• Symbol Entities in HTML & XHTML
• Dingbats - 191 characters. A visual unicode database

ASCII

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIGlet

JS

• http://letteringjs.com/
• http://fittextjs.com/

Software

• 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.

Testing

• http://ffffallback.com/