Khoi Vinh shares the results of his search for "an alternative to the typeface Klavika... something similarly contemporary and similarly strong in its forms, a real workhorse of a typeface that I can call to duty during those times when Helvetica won’t do."
Read the full article - Font Hunt.
ScreenFonts - A monthly review of movie poster typography from FontFeed by FontShop. Check out the recent edition covering District 9 which uses "All kinds of Helvetica from Condensed to Extended."
Four recent write-ups on how to use CSS @font-face.
@font-face in Depth by Zoltan Du Lac
Starting with @font-face from Dave Shea
Bulletproof @font-face syntax by Paul Irish
Screencast: Converting OTF or TTF to EOT by Jonathan Snook
I put together a quick example of CSS3 @font-face with open-source type from The League of Moveable Type - Junction, Chunk and Sorts Mill Goudy. If your audience uses current browsers this font embedding option has great potential. View the example
Screenshots of how things look in a Firefox 3.5 which supports @font-face and in IE7 which does not.
The Font-as-Service is a balanced and up-to-date overview of font delivery services (Typekit, Typotheque and Fontdeck) by Elliot Jay Stocks at ilovetypography.com.
"we are now entering the age of the font-as-service: where the font becomes synonymous with web hosting, mobile data plans, and movie rentals." - Elliot Jay Stocks
Two articles on typography that everyone interacts with daily while driving or taking public transportation.
The Road to Clarity
"Looking at a sign in Clearview after reading one in Highway Gothic is like putting on a new pair of reading glasses: there’s a sudden lightness, a noticeable crispness to the letters."
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The (Mostly) True Story of Helvetica and the New York City Subway
"Helvetica is the official typeface of the MTA today, but it was not the typeface specified by Unimark International when it created a new signage system at the end of the 1960s."
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Misunderstanding markup
Jeremy Keith gives a balanced view of what XHTML 2 was (not HTML 4/XHTML 1) and what HTML 5 is.
Web fonts, HTML 5 roundup
Jeff Zeldman gathers the top articles on these two highly debated topics
An overview of Futura from its creation to examples of usage. A very versatile and usable typeface.
The co-inventor of sIFR reviews Typekit - a new (summer 2009) option for displaying type on the web. Pros - More type options. Cons - Lack of info around cost and usage rules. Only time will tell if this lives up to the hype. Read the full review.