[A blog dedicated to identifying fonts in science fiction.][link]
[link]: http://typesetinthefuture.com/ “Typeset In The Future | Dedicated to fonts in sci-fi”
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[A font made up of symbols and glyphs useful for desktop or mobile web development.][link] Symbolset gives you access to lots of commonly-used symbols which would normally be images, decreasing the page load time and number of requests needed to display your page.
[link]: http://symbolset.com/ “Symbolset”
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Google Web Fonts 2.0
[Newest in an avalanche of Google service redesigns.][link] Is 2011 the year Google gets serious about design? Sure seems like it.
[link]: http://www.google.com/webfonts/v2 “Google Web Fonts”
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Lost Type Co-op
[Very nice typefaces with a pay-what-you-like profit model.][link] The website is fun, too.
[link]: http://www.losttype.com/ “Lost Type Co-op”
[A nifty little JS bookmarklet that tells you what font is being used on the text you’re hovering over.][link] No more digging through CSS files for this cowboy.
[link]: http://chengyinliu.com/whatfont.html “WhatFont Bookmarklet « Chengyin Liu”
[About which your humble narrator is extremely excited.][link] iOS has supported SVG fonts for awhile, but SVG fonts are much larger in filesize and lower quality as of yet.
[link]: http://www.zeldman.com/2010/11/26/web-type-news-iphone-and-ipad-now-support-truetype-font-embedding-this-is-huge/ “Web type news: iPhone and iPad now support TrueType font embedding. This is huge. – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report”
[With downloadable kits containing EOT, SVG, WOFF, and TTF versions, Cufon versions and a stylesheet with the @font-face rules for easy @import-ing][link]. This is drop-in simple. What more can you ask for?
Maybe a slightly better browsing interface, but other than that?
[link]: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface “Font Squirrel | Download Hundreds of Free @font-face Fonts”
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Ask H&FJ: Four Ways to Mix Fonts
[Click it, read it, learn it, love it.][link] These are all essential tips.
[link]: http://www.typography.com/email/2010_03/index_tw.htm “Ask H&FJ: Four Ways to Mix Fonts”
[As it says on the tin][link]. Enjoy your weekend.
[link]: http://qtchicks.hp.infoseek.co.jp/fonts.html “NAMCO ’70~’80’s ARCADE VIDEOGAMES FONT MUSEUM”
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Web Fonts Now, for real
[Zeldman on a proposed webfont permissions table][link]. This seems sort of like attaching a file to a movie that says DO NOT STEAL and expecting it to work.
[link]: http://www.zeldman.com/2009/07/16/web-fonts-now-for-real/ “Web Fonts Now, for real – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report”
[A great-looking, compact, typeface for industry][link]. Comes in 3 flavors and is free for private or commercial use.
[link]: http://www.omkrets.se/typografi/ “Omkrets arkitektur: Typografi”
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Tal Leming on Embedded Web Fonts
A rare take on embedded web fonts from someone who actually makes fonts and sells them for a living. He suggests a DRM system using a “root table” that says what fonts can be used on what domains, but then says this:
>There is nothing that can be done about this. All we can do is present a person with a fork in the road. The person can license the font to give the designer the respect he/she deserves for creating something that the person likes and wants to use. Or, they can ignore the Golden Rule and hack the font.
If that’s the case, and he knows it’s the case, then why not forget the DRM entirely? Why not trust people to do the right thing from the start, and call them out on it when they don’t?
[link]: http://talleming.com/2009/04/21/web-fonts/ “Tal Leming » Web Fonts”