Good Web Fonts
This isn’t “new” news, but in the webfont wild west, quality might pass you by. One large problem with webfonts is that the quality of most fonts that are suitably licensed for webfont embedding—in...
View ArticleThe New Web Font Specimen
Tim Brown released the Web Font Specimen in conjunction with his article Real Web Type in Real Web Context on A List Apart back in November. He updated it last week to v2 which is laser-focused on...
View ArticleSoma Web Font Specimen
When Tim Brown released v2 of the Web Font Specimen (WFS) a few weeks back, he honoured me by asking for my feedback a couple of days before releasing it to the world. I had a couple of suggestions...
View ArticleBetter Web Reading
It’s damn hard to read web content sometimes. Too-small text, articles split over multiple pages, gratuitous banner ads, design that steals you attention from the actual content: these all conspire to...
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FontFriend 2.5
FontFriend was designed and coded as during the twilight of the pre-webfont era. In fact, it was abstracted out of some code I’d been using while developing the CSS font stacks for my WordPress theme...
View ArticleRedesign of mattwie.be
I just launched my redesign of my personal blog mattwie.be (formerly mattwiebe.com) and I couldn’t be happier to finally have it live. This is a full-circle moment for me, as tweaking my blog (first on...
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Environment Canada Mobile
The state of mobile weather apps isn’t awesome. I find that it’s even worse in Canada, where weather data is sourced through non-Canadian providers such as Yahoo (iOS’s built-in weather app) or...
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Better Google Fonts
Google Web Fonts is an awesome source of free, open source fonts hooked up to a world-class CDN. It’s also, sadly, filled with one-off novelty fonts vying for the title of “the new Comic Sans.” I...
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Improve Windows Type Rendering With ttfautohint
In a stroke of genius, Werner Lemberg has started the ttfautohint project, which repurposes FreeType’s autohinting system to automatically hint TrueType fonts for improved Windows rendering. While no...
View ArticleLearning Colemak
After seeing that Ian’s learning Colemak, I decided to go for it too. Colemak is easier to switch to than Dvorak, and possibly even more efficient to boot. However, I couldn’t find a keyboard layout...
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