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This wordpress theme offers a simple, snappy and colorful skin for your new or established blog. I’m not sure where the name comes from it just seemed to fit at the time and so became Swooshy Blog. The design is based around swooping lines and curves. The homepage features an enlarged header that shows the [...]
I’ve been chewing on this for a while, my opinion on CSS3 that is. It is admittedly difficult to judge a spec. that has yet to be finalized but thus far, for me, CSS3 is making all the right noises. I couldn’t care any less for the animations and transitions but multiple backgrounds, border images [...]
My recent post on fixing ClearType issues in IE7 and IE8 sparked some great conversation and in the process educated me a lot further on the existing pittfalls of @font-face embedding. My original fix, like many, was born out of pure necessisity. I needed a solution to allow me to present smoother embedded type faces [...]
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 [...]
This plugin is a simple fix for anyone having issues in IE7 and 8 when embedding custom fonts using the @font-face selector. Microsoft’s ClearType functionality can at times cause embedded fonts to render hard and jagged as opposed to smooth and anti-aliased. You can see the article that this plugin originates from here. If you [...]
With the usage of IE6 finally declining the majority of us can now afford to be a bit more forgiving in our cross browser testing. Despite this in some circumstances the percentage of a site’s IE6 users is still far to high to do anything other than link a separate stylesheet and spend hours writing [...]
Due to my previous musings on @font-face and the ongoing issues of embedding beautiful font faces, I thought it was only apt that I give the newly launched Typekit a quick once over and see just how useful this font as service offering is. I’m going to approach this review trying to forget most of what I already know about @font-face embedding.
Since launching the site I’ve had a few emails regarding the font being used on allcreatives and also the technique used to embed the font. Despite two previous posts on the progress on @font-face I realised I hadn’t actually posted up on how to implement @font-face effectively, so here it is.
So since I last posted about the joys and ultimate instability of the @font-face CSS property I’ve been keeping both eyes peeled for any further progress from the incredibly smart people who solve these kinds of problems. Progress over the last few months has been rapid …
This template displays a taster of what is to come from the CSS 3 spec, mostly the lovely rounded corners and the much troubled @font-face. There are also a few pseudo css selectors used to control some elements.
