Quick Tip – 11: Text Wrapping in Illustrator
March 20, 2014Often when creating a web design mock-up you'll have the need to wrap text around objects. Illustrator makes this very quick and easy to do.
Typography
Oh Wow That’s Neat – 11: Whatfont Bookmarklet
March 19, 2014Do you ever use browser developer tools just to figure out what fonts and font styles are being applied on your site and perhaps others? Well, there's an easier way thanks to Chengyin Liu an engineer at Backplane. He has created the Whatfont Bookmarklet extension for Chrome.
Modern Web Typography: Kerning
February 24, 2014Kerning is a very important aspect when it comes to setting type. Unfortunately, until more recent times, it has been left out when it comes to the web.
Oh Wow That's Neat - 06: www.fontwalk.de
February 12, 2014www.fontwalk.de is a site that was created as a marketing tool for www.fontshop.com. I'm not so interested in their fonts, although it looks like they have a nice selection. I am more interested in the great design ideas behind the Font Walk site.
Quick Tip - 05: Small Caps Using font-variant
February 07, 2014Ever needed to use small caps in a website? They can add a really nice typographic touch in certain circumstances, but I've never really taken advantage of them with CSS.
Quick Tip - 04: Create Drop Caps With CSS
January 31, 2014CSS drop caps came up in a discussion with a co-worker the other day. I don't use drop caps in web sites I design, but there's really no reason why I shouldn't.