Axel Bertram’s Rabenau™ typeface family – over 20 years in the making – masterfully combines neoclassical, baroque and calligraphic design traditions. Rabenau is harmonious, versatile and rich in typographic refinement.
Rabenau 15 December 2011
Bold Weight of Arial Unicode MS Makes its Debut 14 December 2011
If you’re a designer, developer or publisher and deal with multilingual text, chances are the Arial® Unicode™ MS design is your “go-to” font. With around 50,000 glyphs, this workhorse font supports almost every popular language or script used around the world. So if you need one font to display practically any language, you can depend […]
Now Serving Over 15,000 Web Fonts 9 December 2011
Am I the only one old enough to remember when McDonald’s used to have signs showing the number of burgers served? They actually had someone go up on a ladder to change that number! Those were the days… The Fonts.com Web Font Service just surpassed a major milestone, as now we are pleased to offer over […]
Chris Armstrong From the Typecast Team on Designing in the Browser 8 December 2011
The notion of browser-based Web designs has gained considerable momentum over the past year. I sat down with Chris Armstrong to discuss the many benefits of starting in the browser that have many Web designers rethinking their workflow. JZ: What are the problems you see with the traditional Web design workflow? CA: The traditional Web […]
U&lc Volume Fourteen — Cool Covers, More Families & Daniel Pelavin 30 November 2011
There were only three issues of U&lc in Volume Fourteen but, from cover to last page, each was packed with great content for lovers of type, lettering and typography. New typefaces were announced, more “families” were written about, antique crafts were celebrated, and an illustrator – soon to become a type designer and illustrator – was introduced to the readers of U&lc.
Top 100 Web Fonts for October 2011 21 November 2011
Here’s a ranked listing of Fonts.com Web Fonts’ top 100 most used Web fonts for October 2011
Georgia Pro & Verdana Pro: Improvements On Proven Designs 7 November 2011
The Georgia® and Verdana® typefaces have just gone Pro. The two families have been enhanced and expanded to 20 designs each, making them more nuanced and robust for Web use as well as in print.
Originally designed 15 years ago by Matthew Carter, and adopted by every major computer operating system, Georgia and Verdana are now available as Pro families…
Announcing Your Web Font Awards Community Choice Winner and Judges’ Choice Finalists 4 November 2011
Community Choice Winner: Baltimore Fishbowl, Fastpot Congratulations to Baltimore-based interactive agency, Fastspot for their winning entry. And thank you for the thousands of votes on webfontawards.com that put this and bright, lively and informative site on top, while making the competition spirited and engaging. Judges’ Choice Finalists The Judges’ Choice winners will be determined […]
Join Us at FOWD NY for Web Typography, Designing in the Browser and the Web Font Awards 4 November 2011
The Future of Web Design conference returns to New York City next week, and we’re excited to once again be a part of this informative and inspiring event. The schedule is packed with sessions covering HTML5, CSS, creativity and other topics from some of the most respected voices in Web design, including our own Dan […]