Theresa’s Tips: Preview Web FontFonts on any website with FontFonter
FontFonter is free tool that lets you try Web FontFonts on any website. It was introduced almost two years ago and continues to be one of the easiest ways to comp an existing site with Web FontFonts. Just go to FontFont.com, type in a website, and FontFont It! Here are more tips and examples to [...]
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It’s Valentines Day. And on the off chance that means you’re getting married soon, we here at FontShop congratulate you and hope it’s of some service our putting together a list of recommended faces for your invitations. Elegy by Ed Benguiat, Jim Wasco; published by ITC It is clearly important that Americans misspell the word [...]
New Fonts, January 2012
January brought loads of great new fonts with it. Have a look at some of our finds. Neue Haas Grotesk by Christian Schwartz, after Max Miedinger; published by Linotype If you’re going to use Helvetica, choose a beautiful one. What makes Neue Haas Grotesk any different from any other cut of Helvetica? First, its optical sizes [...]
Theresa’s Tips: Optimize Web FontFonts with Subsetter
FontFont Subsetter is free tool that allows you to optimize your licensed Web FontFonts by stripping out glyphs and data that you don’t need. All you have to do is upload your licensed Web FontFont on Subsetter, choose how you want to customize it, then download your new web font. In three easy steps you’ll have [...]
Signpainting at New Bohemia Signs
Michael Pieracci and I stopped in on our just-up-the-street neighbors at New Bohemia Signs last Saturday during their first-ever signpainting workshop. You may remember hearing that name from one of our FontCasts. When we first approached the studio’s proprietor, Damon Styer, about incorporating some kind of a brush lettering workshop at TYPO San Francisco, he [...]
Theresa’s Tips: Hosting Web FontFonts on Typekit
FontShop makes hosting Web FontFonts on Typekit easy. When you purchase a license from FontShop for a Web FontFont you can self host the typeface, or you can take advantage of our partnership with Typekit. It’s just a simple click on the link we provide on your check out confirmation page. If you don’t have [...]
