xkcd: Let Go: Genius.
Fusion Ads is running a fantastic holiday bundle sale that includes: ExpressionEngine, Versions, Font Case, Billings, Draw It, ExpanDrive, Kaleidoscope, TextExpander, Postmark, Pictos, Gedy’s Social Icons, Keynote Kung-Fu, and Learning EE2. All that for $79. If you design on the web, it’s a stupid-great deal.
Timeless satire on technology news coverage in the Internet age.
Adobe and Typekit are teaming up to bring some of the world’s most popular, recognizable, and respected fonts to the web. Starting today, you’ll be able to use classics like Adobe Garamond, News Gothic, Myriad, and Minion plus many more on your website — all of them newly optimized and hinted for the screen. These fonts look fantastic.
Thrilling. Congratulations to Typekit and Adobe for this awesome partnership.
Revised Font Stack | A Way Back - A thorough assessment of font stacks around the web with suggestions for improvement. Fantastic article. Beautiful website, too.
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The only problem with these new Vista typefaces is that they’re only distributed with Vista. So, I have two simple requests:
- Microsoft, please distribute these new Vista typefaces for older versions of Windows, especially XP. Perhaps include them with the release of Internet Explorer 7 and future Office updates?
- Apple, please license this set of fonts from Microsoft and include them with Mac OS X.
— JeffCroft.com: An open letter to Apple and Microsoft - This letter is three and a half years old now, but it’s never too late to stop hoping Microsoft and Apple will arrange an agreement to provide Microsoft’s ClearType Font Collection to OS X users for free (similar to the Core fonts for the Web).
"Dear Google, With your purchase of On2, you now own both the world’s largest video site (YouTube) and all the patents behind a new high performance video codec — VP8. Just think what you can achieve by releasing the VP8 codec under an irrevocable royalty-free license and pushing it out to users on YouTube? You can end the web’s dependence on patent-encumbered video formats and proprietary software (Flash)."
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Open letter to Google: free VP8, and use it on YouTube - Free Software Foundation - If Google heeds this letter’s advice, the web would change for the better overnight.
Update 7/17/10: They did.
Two-part interview with Captain Z that provides a pleasant overview of the state of typography on the web. In brief: I’ve got to admit it’s getting better, a little better all the time.
