A Walk Though FontBook 2.0
Taking a couple hours to get up to speed with the recently updated FontBook App this morning, I found what makes the new version better, and worth the upgrade. Its new collections give you more and easier ways to find what you’re looking for, and even if your typographic knowledge is expert, plenty of opportunities to [...]
Design Legends and Luminaries Slated to Speak at TYPO San Francisco
Jessica Hische, Neville Brody, Tina Roth Eisenberg, Michael Bierut and Erik Spiekermann will share a stage April 5-6 at TYPO San Francisco. With an emphasis on design, society, culture – with a little bit of kerning, TYPO San Francisco, based on one of Europe’s most successful design conferences, will take place at Yerba Buena Center [...]
Theresa’s Tips: Web FontFont licenses and how they work.
FontShop sells three different types of licenses: Desktop, Web, and Mobile. Here are some tips to help you with your Web FontFont purchase. A license for a Web FontFont is based on the number of pageviews a single website has in a month, lets call them “pvm” for short. Once you place a web font [...]
Staff Picks, January 2012
January Staff Picks are in. As you may know, our staff here at FontShop regularly brings a few of its lesser-known offerings to the fore for a discussion on what makes great type great. Here are a few of the selections followed by their letters of recommendation. Star picks Eastside from Elsner+Flake “I dig the [...]
Complete List of SOPA Supporters And Their Social Media Profiles
This week, some of the biggest sites on the net are standing in solidarity to protest against SOPA, an online piracy bill making its way through the house. On January 18, Reddit, the Cheezburger network, Scribd, and many others will be turning off their websites and going black for a day of protest. For a [...]
Google+ Is Finally Relevant…Just Ignore That Gun To Your Head
Google+ currently has 62 million users and change. But if those users are anything like me, they are relatively inactive. I’m pretty much connected to the same people I’m already connected with on Facebook , Twitter, and LinkedIn. I have no use for another social network that doesn’t do Facebook better than Facebook, Twitter better [...]
The Importance of Facebook Pages for Businesses
Like it or not, Facebook is going to be a permanent fixture in the social landscape for years to come. For many people, Facebook is social media. Businesses need to learn to adapt to that reality and leverage Facebook’s power to connect people to expand their reach. Most of the corporate heavyweights have already accepted [...]
The Unfortunate Validation of Vanity Metrics
Judging folks based on possessions is something we just do. No it’s not right but that’s just how it is. We are constantly bombarded by flashy reality television shows flaunting über fancy “cribs” and cars. We’re told through advertising that if we don’t have the latest iPhone, iPad and matching Mac Book Pro … well, [...]
