Did you know that if you declare a custom font using @font-face, the browser will try to fake the bold and italic styles if it can’t find them? This is a clever little feature that avoids a scenario where a … Keep reading
Tag Archives: fonts
optimizeLegibility does not work with @font-face
Recently, twitter was buzzing with news of a CSS technique called optimizeLegibility that enables better kerning and font ligatures. It’s enabled by default in Firefox above 20px text, so you may have already seen it in action. I’d noticed the … Keep reading
Best Practice: Use @font-face for Custom Fonts
I just wrote the following for our marketing team to understand how to sell font solutions to our clients. If you have any feedback, I would love to hear it in the comments section! When a client’s design calls for … Keep reading
Big news for web fonts and video today
WebM Video The codec wars around the HTML5 video element might be settled sooner than you think: Basically, Google just open-sourced VP8, a video codec. VP8 is being combined with the Vorbis audio codec to create a new video format called … Keep reading