FontBook, the world’s most comprehensive typographical reference guide, is now available on iPad.
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August 1st 2011
The top 10 open source web fonts »
A great selection here, some of which I hadn’t seen yet.
Lost Type Co-op »
The Lost Type Co-op is a collaboration between Tyler Galpin and Riley Cran. It was founded with the intention of providing unique and quality fonts based on a pay-what-you-want model. All designers get 100% of the donations their font receives.
Cool idea with some quality entries already. Very curious to see where this goes.
Google Web Fonts introduces “text=” »
Users can now embed only the letters they need from a typeface, which will greatly improve load time. While I prefer TypeKit on most web design projects, Google definitely knocks it out of the park with simplicity (if you can put up with the limited selection).
Same ol' g? Think again: A visual study of the lowercase g »
With swooping necks, quaint ears and abstract loops, the lowercase g has become a beautiful character to fall in love with, and type designers have been creating some extremely lovely and mesmerizing ones for years.
LAIKA, the dynamic typeface.
19 top fonts in 19 top combinations »
Douglas Bonneville lists 19 combinations of fonts, each set pairing one serif with one sans. While I don’t agree with every use or font combination, it makes for a great case study.
For those who haven’t been keeping up (myself included), The League of Movable Type has released some great new open source fonts ready for CSS3 embedding. My current favorite is now “League Gothic“—A revival of Alternate Gothic No. 1. As with most of the fonts they offer, I only wish there were a few more weights in the family.
