Tag: web fonts
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New Museum Theme: Ex Libris
Yesterday we released our fifth Museum Theme, Ex Libris. If you’re reading this today (August 4, 2010), there’s still time to get $10 of the purchase price with the coupon code ‘exlibris’ (no quotes). Ex Libris was designed for typophiles and writers, putting the focus on type and content rather than graphics and bells and…
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Jumping on the webfont bandwagon
Webfonts are literally changing the face of web design (no pun intended). Even just between the time I wrote my last post on @font-face and now, there have been numerous additions to best practices and available services for invoking new, creative typefaces in your web pages. It’s dizzying getting started because there’s just so much…
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How I broke a javascript gallery script to make a Flash-like slideshow
This is a story about a site redesign. The site was for the mother of a client we’ve worked with on other projects. It was a kind of site we don’t normally do, but we took the gig because it was a referral and someone we know and like working with. The original site was…
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About Face
Increasingly, the new big thing in web design is the inclusion of @font-face in CSS3 and most modern browsers. Why is @font-face such a big deal? To understand that, you must first understand the limitations of web design in the past as it applies to typefaces. To that end, a personal anecdote: Like thousands of…