Comments on: Why Good Type Matters, FontConf 2010 Presentation

By: Sharron Clemons

Sharron Clemons — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:16:49 +0000

Fonts play a major role in website development. But right selection is more important.

By: Erika

Erika — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 10:02:42 +0000

Good typography and font diversity are different animals. I’m excited about @font-face but even more jazzed about using .woff with true opentype features to further develop the craft of web typography. The excessive use of different typefaces and text shadow on body copy is generally horrible in print, so why should we tolerate it on the web? Then again, great typographers can make those things work in surprising and delightful ways… so attack the designer before attacking the technology.

By: Mandar Thosar

Mandar Thosar — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 07:05:49 +0000

Fonts play a major role in website development. But right selection is more important.

By: Ricky Burgess

Ricky Burgess — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:51:39 +0000

I have to say I had exactly the same thoughts when I first discovered @font-face. The ‘just because we can’ response could introduce some ugly if not completely illegible typography where limited choice held ‘poor’ designers back a little bit.

By: Garrick Van Buren

Garrick Van Buren — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:52:25 +0000

Ant Gray - Kernest currently has 168 fonts containing Cyrillic glyphs - http://kernest.com/subsets/cyrillic

By: Ant Gray

Ant Gray — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:35:52 +0000

Most of cool @font-faces does not support cyrillic. That’s bad for me.

I am all for progressive enchancement, to encourage people using newest browsers (yeah, I know that it will not change anything, but…) and I just have fun to make new fancy effects.

Text-shadow sometimes makes text harder to read; it adds either moire (on dark background) or dirt (on light), so it should be very subtle effect.

By: Jordan Koschei

Jordan Koschei — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:50:08 +0000

I think Mariah Carey Syndrome is already making an appearance; I’ve had to slog through plenty of @font-face badness, and text-shadow is already everywhere.

CSS3 effects are great, but when a site contains all style and no substance, they’re going to go the way of Flash and Comic Sans.