One of the trends we’ve noticed across font distributors, is the requirement to install font tracking scripts in websites. This generated buzz with developers which prompted me to write this short post. I’ll just lay it out there: we don’t [...]
This is a continuing blog series on Licensing. You can view the earlier posts about Desktop, Webfont, App and Ebook, as well as our previous custom license, product creation. Up this week: Website creating and hosting. The Website Creation [...]
Welcome to Part 2 of our continued blog series on licenses. The goal of these blogs is to take a more informal approach towards explaining licenses and how they actually work. Today’s topic is webfonts. We’ll explore this topic in a more [...]
Hi guys, Dan here. Today we’re releasing a new video, another in our tutorial series. And this time we’re talking about layering web fonts. Layered fonts allow us to do some really neat things, giving us some unique flexibility when it comes to [...]
Watch this video on how to use multiple fonts to style your html without cumbersome markup or javascripts. This trick utilizes the browsers ability to use multiple fonts in case one font doesn’t have the characters it needs, you can dictate what [...]
Last year we shared an alternative @font-face syntax that offers rendering benefits in Chrome for Windows by serving the svg file to Chrome users. You can read the original post here: smoother-web-font-rendering-chrome. Since then, we have [...]
* Click here to read our update to this post. * Many web-developers struggle with the quality of chrome’s web font rendering. As web fonts become an industry standard in web-design, it is only a matter of time before chrome improves their [...]
Our @font-face syntax has been out in the wild for a few months now. It has performed beyond our expectations…except in certain instances of IE9. And here is how to solve them. Fix IE9 on the Server Side (IIS) Microsoft’s IIS server will refuse [...]
For context, please read our earlier post about this syntax. A potential looming problem with the new syntax we introduced earlier this month was raised by Microsoft. The soon-to-be-released IE9 comes with a feature that allows it to render in [...]
Since the beginning of the ‘webfont revolution’ we’ve relied on somewhat hacky @font-face declarations to get webfonts loading cross-browser. Could there be a better way? One that’s clear and compatible with future [...]
