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WEB TYPE: HYPE & GRIPESby Tom Osborne for AIGA DC’s Non-book Book Club at BET Networks on February ,
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HI! I’M
I work as a Design Director at Viget.TOM OSBORNE
@_troz
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I. A walk down memory lane
II. Living up to the hype
III. Some gripes
WHAT WE’LL COVER
MEMORY LANE
Arial, Verdana, Times New Roman, Courier, Trebuchet, Georgia, Lucida Grande
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Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
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<h1 class="main-logo"> CSS-Tricks</h1>
h1.main-logo { width: 350px; height: 75px; background: url(images/header-image.jpg); text-indent: -9999px;
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Gotham, ‘Helvetica Neue’, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
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Scalable Inman Flash Replacement (sIFR) is an open source JavaScript and Adobe Flash dynamic web fonts implementation, enabling the replacement of text elements on HTML web pages with Flash equivalents.
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Fast text replacement with canvas and VML - no Flash or images required.
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@-
@font-face {font-family: DeliciousRoman;src: url(/Delicious-Roman.otf);}
h1 {font-family: DeliciousRoman, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;}
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Soon to become the "single, interoperable [font] format" supported by all browsers.
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LIVING UP TO THE HYPE
http://www.buzzfeed.com/animals/cats-as-fontsSOURCE
http://fontgame.ilovetypography.com/SOURCES
http://type.method.ac/
http://shape.method.ac/
http://cheeseorfont.com/
http://www.strangenative.com/foldup/SOURCE
http://www.kitchensinkstudios.com/SOURCE
http://www.manufacturedessai.it/it/SOURCE
http://www.extensis.com/en/WebINK/pricing/SOURCE
http://www.extensis.com/en/webfontplugin/SOURCE
http://www.fontspring.com/fontfaceSOURCE
http://hellohappy.org/beautiful-web-type/SOURCE
http://www.google.com/webfonts#ChoosePlace:selectSOURCE
http://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/SOURCE
http://trentwalton.com/2011/11/18/workspace/SOURCE
http://lostworldsfairs.com/eldorado/SOURCE
http://lostworldsfairs.com/atlantis/SOURCE
http://lostworldsfairs.com/moon/SOURCE
http://webtypographyforthelonely.com/SOURCE
SOME GRIPES
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➡ Subscription fees
➡ Annual fees
➡ Bandwidth allowances and restrictions
COSTS
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➡ Flash of unstyled text (FOUT)
➡ Rendering in IE 7 & 8
➡ Mobile unpredictability
CONSISTENCY
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➡ Client/agency usage
➡ Transferable licensing
➡ Building font libraries
LICENSING
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➡ House Industries
➡ Hoefler & Frere-Jones
➡ Berthold
STILL WAITING
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