Fonts and Other Goodies
Searchfreefonts.com is a huge font site with no pop-ups. You can search for fonts or browse font categories.
Dave Shea has put his notes and slide presentation on How to be Beautiful: More Hi-Fi Design With CSS from his panel discussion at SXSW. The slide presentation is amazing! Fawny, Joe Clark’s personal blog, also has some notes on the same presentation along with other speaker’s notes. StopDesign also has a blog entry on Capturing SXSW. Hey if you can’t attend the conference, at least you can read the notes!
While you’re at Stop Design there is a really good article (and comments) on MSN goes CSS that I found really interesting. I just wish there were enough hours in the day to read all of these great sites!
Eyetools “provides tools and services to measure eye-movement as people look at webpages to quantify what people read, what they don’t read, what they glance at, what they skip, and what they never see…” Eyetools has recently analyzed the CSS Zen Garden. This is pretty interesting stuff, be sure to review the blog for eyetools.
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March 20th, 2005 at 3:45 pm
Hooray! Thanks so much for the link to free fonts. I have drooled over commercial fonts that cost an arm, and sometimes a leg. Now I have lots to choose from — no amputation required.
The site currently links to Microsoft Typography[1] that lists the fonts that come with various M$ products. Now I can try adding more interesting font faces to the “font-family” list on my style sheet. Nice.
They also have some nice script fonts. Now I can style my signature with something other than Arial.
A case for sIFR[2] methinks.
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Regards. David.
March 20th, 2005 at 3:46 pm
Hmm. Those links got stripped. Try these:
[1] http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/default.aspx
[2] http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2004/09/sifr2-kick-the-tires
March 21st, 2005 at 4:55 pm
Yes, it’s a handy site and the link to the Microsoft Typography site is also worth bookmarking. Soon, well 2006, that list will be updated with the six new screen fonts that MS will be distributing in their ClearType Font Collection.
March 21st, 2005 at 4:56 pm
My spam filters.