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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 [...]
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.
Google @font-face and you’ll be hit with thousands of results, articles explaining how to use it and the great flexibility this CSS 3 property introduces to designers moving into the future. Dig a little deeper and you’ll discover that while @font-face is incredibly useful for designers, it is ultimately flawed and doomed for failure in its current form.
