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    Monday
    29Jun2009

    The Potential of Web Typography

    DateJune 29, 2009

     

    Firefox 3.5 is out now- go get that sucker!

    The Mozilla Japan team asked that Craig Mod and I jointly write and designthis demo page of what is now possible using Firefox's new @font-face, aCSSrule implemented in Firefox's latest 3.5 release which allows web designers to reference fonts not installed on end user machines.

    (In other words: it allows web designers to store fonts on their server and reference them inCSS, regardless of what fonts the user browsing the page has installed.)

    Look at it in Firefox- it is designed for that. It looks OK enough in Safari, but we'd rather have you see it in all its glory. Click around a bit and see what the future of typography for the web looks like....

    We lucked out in getting Underware to agree to being our foundry partners in making this demo happen. The demo coincides with the release of their new typeface, Liza.

    Original referring page on Mozilla's site is here.

    Thanks to Craig for dropping crazy hours with me on getting this project together. Shoutouts to Mozilla for their support, encouragement, and sheer radicalness!

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    Crazy. It makes so much sense! FINALLY!
    July 1, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterJP

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