I couldn’t let this day pass without noting that today (12 Aug 2008) is the 6th anniversary of Microsoft closing down the Core Web Fonts initiative, which is responsible for giving designers the palette of 11 standard fonts that we use allmost exclusively in our designs. Although great in that we got at least 5 [...]
RIP: TT Core Fonts for the Web
August 12th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Typography · Web Design · Web Standards
Posting from my iPhone
August 11th, 2008 · No Comments
This is pretty cool. WordPress has released an app that allows me to post blogs directly from my iPhone. Hopefully this will lead to more blog entries (although worse spelling). I can even include a photo.
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The Great Font Debate: Typographic Humor
July 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Here’s a little laugh to get your weekend started. Who knew fonts could be so funny?
See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.
Thanks to Ryan McCullah for sending the link.
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Tags: Community · Typography · Web Design · inspiration
No More IE6?
July 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment
Over at InfoQ, they are debating whether it’s worth while to support Internet Explorer 6 anymore. The article details several online serivices, vendors, and developmental frameworks that are pulling support, arguing that the browser that once made up 95% of the market share is no longer an online player now that Internet Explorer is on [...]
Tags: Design · Future · Web Design · Web Standards
Interview with WOW
July 11th, 2008 · No Comments
At the recent Voices that Matter conference, I had the privilege of having dinner with Bill Cullifer, the Executive Director of WOW (World Organization of Webmasters). I hadn’t check in with that group in a while (they’ve been around since 1996), so I was excited to hear about a lot of the great stuff the [...]
Tags: CSS · Community · Conferences · Future of CSS · Typography · Web Design
