Fancy fonts: accessible and search friendly
April 26th, 2007
sIFR uses javascript, CSS and Flash to replace short passages of plain text with text rendered in any typeface - regardless of whether or not your users have that font installed on their systems.
sIFR 2.0: Rich Accessible Typography for the Masses
Update: sIFR 3 is now available here , although still in beta I think…
Guide to typography on the web
April 24th, 2007
For too long typographic style and its accompanying attention to detail have been overlooked by website designers, particularly in body copy. In years gone by this could have been put down to the technology, but now the web has caught up.
The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web is an excellent resource for anyone interested in graphic or web design. Author Richard Rutter looks at how Robert Bringhurst’s classic book The Elements of Typographic Style can be applied to text online.