The top 10 open source web fonts »
A great selection here, some of which I hadn’t seen yet.
July 12th 2011
OMG Text »
Excellent Compass extension from Jared Hardy that provides some fun text effects using text-shadow.
I wish I could sketch/wireframe this well. Though I will say, I’ve been using Balsamiq Mockups for about a week and have found it far more useful than I imagined. Hope they do an integrated iPad version soon.
Subtle Patterns, patterns for Websites.
Love the collection forming here, but more than anything, I love that they offer the whole collection as a Photoshop pattern.
(Source: jesseddy)
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).
“So the next time you find yourself grumbling about declaring the same thing four times, once for each browser, remember that the pain is temporary. It’s a little like a vaccine—the shot hurts now, true, but it’s really not that bad in comparison to the disease it prevents.”
Eric Meyer, Prefix or Posthack
“It’s like the ‘Wizard of Oz’ moment when they go from black and white to color.”
Tal Leming, The changing typography of the Web
CSS Sandbox »
A beautiful little tool from Pixelmatrix Design that lets you code and test CSS in real time.
