Comments on: Web Typography Links

By: Chris Raymond

Chris Raymond — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:18:08 +0000

It’s also good to realize that you can expand beyond the small set of Web fonts, by creatively using “font stacks”; these let designers pick their preferred fonts from the major platforms, so that altogether, the stack will hit nearly every visitor’s set of fonts and only as a last resort, fall back to Georgia* or Arial.

Some good links:
http://unitinteractive.com/blog/2008/06/26/better-css-font-stacks/
http://www.inspirationbit.com/striking-web-sites-with-font-stacks-that-inspire/

*BTW: nothing wrong with Georgia–it’s underused. Fascinating roundup of Georgia-only sites can be found at:
http://www.inspirationbit.com/georgia-on-my-mind/

By: Jeremy Boggs

Jeremy Boggs — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:39:10 +0000

Thanks Lincoln. Ellen Lupton’s book Thinking with Type is fantastic. I highly recommend it.

By: Lincoln Mullen

Lincoln Mullen — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:24:50 +0000

Thanks for the links. They're a great help. "Thinking with Type" is a website about typography in general, though not specifically about web typography. It's useful for people like me who have had to educate themselves about type in general before they could start thinking about type on the web.

By: Agitationist

Agitationist — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:25:18 +0000

A short assessment of the current state of typography on the, and the the various attempts to get away from the basic web-based fonts:
http://agitationist.com/web-safe-fonts-the-beginning-of-the-end