Typographic Illustrations in Flash
Sunday, June 20th, 2004These Typographic Illustrations are ablsolutely amazing. Choreographed to some fine music, the letters animate onto the screen and create some fantastic illustrations.
These Typographic Illustrations are ablsolutely amazing. Choreographed to some fine music, the letters animate onto the screen and create some fantastic illustrations.
Accessible Web Typography is an online book by Jim Byrne that will provide web designers with basic typography skills. The book is availalbe for free in HTML version or you can purchase a PDF version for $5.00.
The text is broken down into three sections:
clagnut.com discusses the the new typography and offers some good tips on specifying font families using CSS.
VisiBone Font Survey Results lists the browsershare of over 200 fonts installed on client computers.
I wish there was a link to a page that described the method in which this list was obtained, but if I can remember correctly, the author invited web users to visit a page on his site that enumerated the fonts installed on that system.
The CSS Pointer’s Group has a good article titled – Typographical Measurement Systems. It covers the history of font measuring systems and looks at current implementations of font measurement within the CSS standards.
Fontifier is a free web-based tool that lets you use your own handwriting for the text you write on your computer.
It turns a scanned sample of your handwriting into a computer font that you can use in your word processor or graphics program, just like regular fonts such as Arial.
Keith Devens has a nice list of Programmer Fonts. From his site:
Programmers have very particular font needs. A font for programming must be monospaced, extremely readable, and must sharply distinguish between similar characters, such as capital O and zero and the number 1, capital I, and lowercase L. In addition, good programming fonts allow you to view more lines of code on screen at once.
Appears as though if you do a custom install of Mac OSX Panther, and choose not to install Internet Explorer, the Georgia and Verdana fonts are not installed.
(via What Do I Know)
fontBROWSER is a neat little Flash application that will show you all the fonts installed on your system.
The research paper “A Comparison of Popular Online Fonts: Which Size and Type is Best?” from Usability News involved a research group of sixty participants (16 males and 44 females).
The study explores the following characteristics of fonts used on the Internet:
The paper concludes that “Generally, Times and Arial were read faster than Courier, Schoolbook, and Georgia. Fonts at the 12-point size were read faster than fonts at the 10-point size. In addition, a font type x size interaction was found for the perception of font legibility. In general, however, Arial, Courier, and Georgia were perceived as the most legible. “
