FREE & COMMERCIAL FONTS

FONT HISTORY, FONT STYLES & FONT TUTORIALS

Understanding fonts is one of the keys for good web design. Below are our links to fonts, topographic history articles and various font tutorials:

• The world of fonts - history and principles of font design

• Text formatting (web fonts): Detailed (technical) tutorial

• Metric Typographic Units

• Netscape Font test pattern (size1-size7)

• Which Type Styles are the best? (Answers to some questions from a workshop)

• Beyond the FONT tag: Practical HTML text styling (with samples how browsers see the fonts)

• The world of fonts (tutorial)

• Fonts and typefaces in website design (Article)

• Using Dingbat Fonts to Create Logos - How to make your logo shapes have smoother edges (Tutorial)

• The Last Resort: Downloadable Fonts (Tutorial on how you to specify downloadable fonts for use in documents)

• Guidelines For Typography In NBCS ("..This document is intended as a brief checklist for writers. Its target is reports, documentation, and other documents that are primarily text. There are additional considerations for design-intensive documents such as newsletters, with multiple columns, sidebars, and other complexities. For the web, this document applies to reports and other material that is primarily read from beginning to end.")

• Web Type 101, a primer ("..While you may never consciously notice the typefaces used on a Web page, they subconsciously affect the way you feel about the page.." - Tutorial)

• Toward a standard font size interval system (Very detailed tutorial/article about Internet's font sizes, including CSS. With many font-size tables to compare)

• Different meanings of font size (Tutorial/Test Tables)

• Identifying Installed Fonts overcoming a built-in limitation, and saving bandwidth (DHTML Lab Tutorial)

• TrueType and Anti-Aliasing

• PostScript vs. TrueType Fonts: Which should you use?

• Text Sizing (264 screenshots)

• and more...

CSS FONTS

Everyone designing in dynamic HTML need to know about CSS fonts and how they will be used. We'll make you the entry to this subject easy:

• Tutorial on CSS fonts and properties

• The seven stages of appreciation (Fine details about fonts)

• Add a little style with the font-property

• Adaptive Text Colors (A CSS tutorial)

• Absolute Font Sizes: A Clarification (Tutorial)

• Style sheet master class: - fonts (Excellent Tutorial/Tips)

• and more...

EMBEDDED FONTS

One of the biggest problem in using fonts at your site is that your visitor might not see them with their browsers as you do. But there is a way out: Use commercial embedded fonts!

• "No more GIF text" - About CSS and embedded fonts

• About Embedded fonts

• Embedded Fonts: Site Designers Applaud, Font Designers Fret

• Microsoft WEFT 3 - About the Web Embedding Fonts Tool "WEFT".

• Various articles about Embedded and Dynamic Fonts

• Understanding Embedded Fonts

• Alternative Typography: Embedded Fonts (TrueDoc vs. OpenType)

• Creating customized true type fonts that can incorporate signatures or graphics (logos) that are quickly and easily accessible from any windows, OS/2, Mac or Linux application [$]

• PDF font strategies ("..You may not consider fonts to be all that relevant to PDF documents, but they're an intrinsic part of how PDFs work. The decision of whether and how to include fonts is critical. It affects both the size and appearance of the document.." - info, including about embedding fonts)

• Why Embed Fonts in PDF Document?

• Sample page using embedded fonts

• and more...

FONT TOOLS & UTILITIES

External third party font tools are not required by everyone except by font designers or users who install fonts more than a few times. We show you some of them:

• A commercial utility which helps you in identifying fonts similar to the one you have [$]

• Review of Fontlab, a professional type designer toolbox

• Native TrueType tools link list (good documented)

• TypeStyle stand alone font designer software

• Utility to create and edit TrueType fonts. The ability to convert (scanned) bitmaps (.bmp files) to TrueType outlines enables you to create your own signature, logo and handwriting.

• An index of font tools to download (Freeware/Shareware)

• and more...

DESIGN ISSUES

The number of fonts on the net are uncountable, yet you might want to design fonts by yourself. Our tutorial links shows you how you can do this by following the practical tips below:

• Designing (True) Type (fonts) with CorelDraw

• Creating Your Own Fonts (..with CorelDraw & FontLab)

• A 8 page tutor how to create fonts using Adobe Streamline and Macromedia's Fontographer

• How to make fonts - tutorial, using Fontographer font utility.

• Shows how to use special fonts on your site and generates the code for it

• How A Scriptorium Font Is Designed (Tutorial)

• and more...

FINDING FONTS

Finding a certain font on the net may be an impossible task. Yet, there are some excellent search engines who may can help you faster than you think:

• A searchable font archive ("..Set text, select font styles, and view visual side-by-side comparisons set in thousands of faces. The archive has organized information on noncommercial fonts gathered from all over the Internet to help your easily find, try, and download all on one site..!" - Nice done. Over 1,000 fonts, searchable. Many can be downloaded as well. Recommend.)

• A Fonts Database Search. Ability to view and purchase more than 30,000 typefaces from over 75 foundries worldwide.

• Over 8000 fonts to search (and purchase): From Adobe, Monotype, ITC and Creative Alliance [$]

• and more...

E-ZINES & NEWSLETTERS

There are numerous issues regarding fonts in newsletters. Here are some important information you should know:

• What's the Best Font for Your Newsletter? (A survey for HTML based e-zines & newsletters)

• and more...

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