Drew Wilson has introduced a new service ($19–$99/year) which allows designers to create custom icon fonts from his Pictos collection. It’s crazy simple: Pick your icons, assign to letters, and embed the font live, ala Typekit, or download the file for a small fee. Brilliant.
Also: if you need a little convincing as to why you would want to use a webfont for icons, check out this excellent article on CSSTricks.
“I typically argue that it’s okay to diverge from conventions so long as the experience is intuitive and polished. If it improves things, even better.”
“I was there because I just wanted to read something. Words. Black text on a white background, more-or-less. And what I saw — at a professional publication, a site with the purpose of giving people something good to read — was just about the farthest thing from readable.”
Slick new way to share presentations — watch out SlideShare. Here’s a recent deck on Sencha Touch.
MIT-licensed, imageless, loading spinner which uses CSS3 where possible and falls back to VML for our buddy, IE6. Great little JavaScript project.
I got to the party tardy with H5B, having just started using it a few weeks ago, but I love this project. It’s hard to deny that it’s a great, easy to use, starting point for HTML5 projects — chock full of best practices. Although it’s still Ant-based, the build system is pretty lovely as well. If you haven’t already tried it out, version 2 should add in enough to push you over the edge.
“You’re reaching through a window, then putting your hands into a box, to perform your task.”
Google has launched a new web fonts directory, with a way better font browser and (finally) search functionality. Though they still need a wider selection, I’m a big fan of Google Web Fonts because they’re free, easy to embed on a page, and offer downloadable versions of each font (to design with).
