Tag Archives: web development

In the spirit of Hal­loween Jon Tan covered the ominous topic of @font-​face linking in a com­pre­hen­sive article on his beau­ti­ful website.
I’ve kept the imple­men­ta­tion example to a minimum because it’s well covered by Jon, other web­sites, and the W3C. Instead, I wanted to voice my thoughts on the strug­gle between type foundries and design­ers. Feel […]

Whose Gara­mond is it anyway?
If you flick through various foundry cat­a­logs for a Gara­mond revival or adap­tion, you’re prob­a­bly bound to dis­cover more than garalde type­faces. Inter­spersed amongst the many Gara­monds by Claude Gara­mond (or Gara­mont) you’ll find baroque faces works by another type designer, Jean Jannon…
I wanted to cover this little typo­graphic affair but quickly found […]