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Category Archives: Typography

Improve readability with line-height

The CSS line-height property determines the distance or spacing between the lines of text on the page. In the print world, this property is called leading.
Line-height can be applied to any text element, but it’s probably best to set it in the CSS rule for body in your stylesheet. All the textual elements on your [...]

Useful links: Thatcher on accessibility, ReadSmart, Opera turns 15

A look at whitehouse.gov, a tool to improve reading comprehension, Opera celebrates its 15th with a retro bash.

Useful Links: Social Media Products, Typefaces, SXSW photos

Useful links: good resources for using social media, periodic table of typefaces, SXSW photos.

Useful Links: Drive Me Crazy, Community Building, Mobile Design, Best Job

Links to top notch articles about what not to do on the web, how to build community, designing for mobiles, and finding the best job in the world.
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Useful Links: power in social media, ROI, web fonts

Social Media Breakfast Leverages Two Truckloads of Tyson Food Donation for Boston Food Bank! at Beth’s Blog is another story to add to the list of amazing things achieved with social media. In this case, blog comments were enough to raise 2 truckloads of food for a food bank in just 3.5 hours. How did [...]

Downloadable fonts with GlyphGate

There’s a change in the wind in terms of downloadable fonts. GlyphGate is part of the reason. GlyphGate isn’t for everyone. If you have control over your web server, you may be interested in installing GlyphGate. Your hosting company may have it installed (or will install it if enough people request it) so that you [...]

Ya gotta love it

Veer: Ideas: Behind The Typeface A movie honoring the typeface Cooper Black.

Typography Website

Counterspace is all about typography. It explains what it calls the anatomy of letters and suggests some typefaces that work well in multimedia.

Free font site

www.fontoville.tk Font-o-ville has some interesting and unusual fonts and they are free!

264 Screen Shots of font sizing options

text sizing – up the garden path Owen Briggs lays out all the font sizing options in all the browsers in search of a workable standard. Ems, px, %, oh, my!