Quick Tip – 11: Text Wrapping in Illustrator
Often 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
Do 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
Kerning 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
www.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
Ever 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
CSS 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.
Quick Tip - 03: Prevent Mobile Device Text Inflation With the text-size-adjust Property
You may have noticed that your phone tends to scale up text automatically in an attempt to make things more readable on the smaller screen. The intentions are great but the effects may be undesired for the person in charge of the design. Well, you have the ability to prevent mobile device text inflation with the text-size-adjust property.