Co.Design talks to Mandy Brown of Typekit about why the service, which was recently acquired by Adobe, improved the web (and not just for designers). Before web fonts, type designers offered desktop ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Since the World Wide Web’s earliest days, whether you were shopping on ...

At the heart of the matter is how CSS 3 will handle how fonts will be downloaded for webpages. The typeface issue has less to do with CSS standards and more to do with intellectual property of those ...

Web typography used to be something of an oxymoron, but recent browser advances and tools like Typekit have helped bring web typography out of the dark ages with custom fonts. Thanks to JavaScript ...

With the rebirth of flat design and the popularity of minimalism, typography is taking a more central role in Web design. These styles are not mutually exclusive, and in fact are usually combined (as ...

The web has historically been a messy place for typography. Only recently have embedded fonts become a popular technique, but browsers are still behind on type presentation and flexibility. This is ...

Firefox 3.5 introduces a new embeddable font feature that can make Web typography much more visually appealing. But type foundries have to play along. Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 years of ...

Last night, while reading Craig Mod’s excellent article, Subcompact Publishing, I noticed something that only type-obsessed nerds probably notice: some really good-looking hyphenation. A quick ...

Since the World Wide Web’s earliest days, whether you were shopping on Amazon or researching on Google or catching up on news at latimes.com, chances are you were looking at just one of four typefaces ...

Web typography has long been hampered by a limited choice of fonts and poor display results, but this could be about to change. Scott Billings looks at what embedded fonts and next-generation browsers ...