Browsing CSS

Textorize Subpixel typesetting for the web. 

Thin is Still In Steve Smith finds a replacement for thinning Safari text on Snow Leopard. 

Typekit Too important for a mere mention on Twitter. 

Read PXR + Cufon = Pxfon  

Pronunciation of sIFR Not sure why the sudden interest but this has become quite the frequently asked question of late. 

Cufón A promising Canvas/VML alternative to sIFR. It’s really a shame they’d let Opera support hold up something as essential as being able to select text though. 

CSScaffold Anthony Short is building a dynamic CSS framework based on Cacheer. 

Read GlimmerMonkey  

Making Web Fonts Work Jon Tan on the current state of embedding typefaces. It never occurred to me that @font-face might incur a delay before rendering text (a common complaint against sIFR). And I had completely forgotten how rubbish ClearType is. Until anti-aliasing discrepancies between platforms can be resolved I don’t see even a standardized approach being accepted by discerning designers. Looks like we’re in for another four years of flash replacement. 

The State of Font Embedding Mark Wubben, the maintainer of sIFR, thinks out loud about font embedding and the various stop-gap alternatives.