Tag: font-face

A Font Garde

A set of reliable (nay, bulletproof) patterns for icon fonts…
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Font-Embedding Icons: This Is a Big Deal

An article proposing the use of @font-face for displaying icons. I feel strongly about the potential of this method, so I thought I would take the time to generate a font set for Iconic and to talk about why we should all be using this method for displaying icons…
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The Font-Face Rule and Useful Web Font Tricks

The possibility of embedding any font you like into websites via @font-face is an additional stylistic device which promises to abolish the monotony of the usual system fonts. It surely would be all too easy if there was only one Web font format out there. Instead, there’s quite a variety, as you will get to […]
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The New Bulletproof @Font-Face Syntax

Since the beginning of the ‘webfont revolution’ we’ve relied on somewhat hacky @font-face declarations to get webfonts loading cross-browser. Could there be a better way? One that’s clear and compatible with future browsers?
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Quick and Easy CSS @font-face Code

What seems to be an ideal chunk of CSS code for implementing the @font-face rules. Tested on quite a few browsers, including the following: Safari 3.1+, Opera 10+, Firefox 3.5+, Chrome 4.0+, Internet Explorer 6+ This technique delivers your custom fonts quite consistently to all of these browsers, and degrades gracefully for those that don’t […]
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CSS3 Background-Clip & @Font-Face

With no clear purpose or plan, I’ve resolved to experiment with CSS3 on a regular basis. Some of these note-posts may be more useful and practical than others, but the only way to know for sure is to learn by doing. That being said, here is another experiment with background-clip: text and @font-face via Typekit…
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CSS3 Transforms & @font-face Experiment

This is the first of what I hope are number of experiments I plan on working on over the next few months, all in an effort to get acquainted with some of the new CSS3 features out in the wild that seem to be gaining some traction…
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Smoother @font-face embedding in IE 7 & 8

You could say I’ve become somewhat obsessed with @font-face embedding over the past few months. I’ve most certainly fell head over heels for the @font-face generator from fontsquirrel.com see the recap below.One thing however that has always bothered me is IE7 and IE8’s rendering of embedded fonts, so today with IE tester at hand and […]
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Bulletproof @font-face

Real type on the web. All the kids are doing it. But maybe we’re doing it wrong. After testing several CSS @font-face syntax variants, including one used on this site, Paul Irish says the following is clearly best:
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How to use CSS @font-face

We’ll prepare typefaces for use on the web, go through @font-face CSS line-by-line, and get the experts take on browser support…
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