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. ![]()