Source Serif Pro is a set of OpenType fonts to complement the Source Sans Pro family. Looking good I must say! Introducing Source Serif 2.0 →Source Serif Pro (GitHub) →
Tag Archives: webfonts
Minimize FOUT with Font Style Matcher
Great tool by Monica Dinculescu (@notwaldorf): If you’re using a web font, you’re bound to see a flash of unstyled text (or FOUC), between the initial render of your websafe font and the webfont that you’ve chosen. This usually results in a jarring shift in layout, due to sizing discrepancies between the two fonts. To …
Improved Font Loading in WebKit
The New Google Fonts
The new Google Fonts makes it easier than ever to browse our collection of open source designer fonts and learn more about the people who make them. Using the Material Design framework, we created a design that scales across different screen sizes and devices, and updated the entire look and feel of the site, from …
Zenfonts – A tiny and flexible JavaScript tool to help loading web fonts
// JavaScript Zenfonts(“Dolly”, {fallbackClass: “fallback-dolly”}) /* CSS */ body { font-family: “Dolly”, Georgia, serif; } .fallback-dolly body { font-family: Georgia, serif; } A tiny JavaScript helper to load and pre-load web fonts that are specified via @font-face. It uses best practices from other solutions, but it’s still a unique combination: It’s tiny (793 bytes minimized …
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Map Glyphs – The Ultimate CSS Map Font
Multicolor Fonts in the browser
Seemingly out of nowhere, big guys like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Adobe are proposing multicolor font formats, and rushing to have them implemented in browsers and OSes. This sudden interest is not so much fueled by typographers, designers or web developers, but by an unlikely group: teenagers. More specifically: teenagers who demand their communication …
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Color Emoji in Windows 8.1 —The Future of Color Fonts?
With Windows 8.1, Microsoft’s operating system now also supports color emoji. But they did it in a very different way than Apple and Google. Instead of using PNG images, they introduced a support for layered vector glyphs! Reminds of that neat trick where one would layer webfonts/icofonts on top of eachother, all in a different …
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