Posts Tagged ‘Typography’

Font Too Bold on a Mac

CSS, Web Design, Web Development | Posted by Keefr May 15th, 2012

Following up on yesterday’s post about fonts not rendering completely properly, here’s another fix/tweak for making fonts appear better on OS X:

Hat tip: Bret.

Font Too Bold on a Mac

CSS Properties That Affect Type Rendering

CSS, Web Design | Posted by Keefr May 14th, 2012

A co-worker sent out this article a few minutes ago, and had to post it here. While it’s not a cross-browser magic bullet, the -webkit-font-smoothing set to “antialiasing” does wonders for making font-face fonts look better (and the right weight) in Chrome and Safari. Now if there were a “-moz-webkit-font-smoothing” property, or browsers supported the W3 font-smooth property.

CSS Properties That Affect Type Rendering

Type Effects in Web Design: It’s All About Moderation

Web Design | Posted by Keefr April 25th, 2012

Not much to say on this one — nearly everything in moderation is a good rule of thumb — may it be in design, food, etc.

Type Effects in Web Design: It’s All About Moderation

Typography Effects with CSS3 and jQuery

CSS, jQuery | Posted by Keefr December 9th, 2011

I’m absolutely loving this whole set of typography effects done via a combination of my two favorite web bits — CSS3 and jQuery.

Mentally bookmarked to use some of these on future projects.

Typography Effects with CSS3 and jQuery

Interactive Typography Effects with HTML5

HTML | Posted by Keefr November 10th, 2011

This is a cool proof of concept, and pretty impressive demo, though I’m wracking my brain to figure out where I’d actually have the necessity to utilize something like this. Regardless, it’s a very impressive visual.

Interactive Typography Effects with HTML5

Top 10 Most Useful Typography Tools To Save Designers Time and Effort

Web Design | Posted by Keefr May 24th, 2011

Welcome to today’s resource list on a theme! I feel like I don’t write enough of my own content that breaks it down into lists. Hmm

Anyway, I really like the first one on the list Css Txt, and the control and options it gives you for tweaking web-based text.

Top 10 Most Useful Typography Tools To Save Designers Time and Effort