Tag: FONT

Web fonts have been available to Blogger users since late last year, when Google introduced 32 ready-to-use typefaces to spice up your blog's design. Now, Google has more than doubled that number -- bringing the total to a whopping 77 fonts, all of which render nicely in just about any Web browser. No, they don't work in IE6. You'll find the new fonts in the Blogger Template Designer behind ...

It's December 1, and time for the countdown-to-Christmas giveaways to begin. Sebastian already let you know about Gameloft's free-game-a-day deal, and Fontdeck is running a similar deal for font fanatics. Each day from now until December 25th, you can pick up a high-quality webfont from Adfont Calendar absolutely free. The fonts are free to use on any website that receives less than one million ...

Fonts Live is a service which lets you embed beautiful fonts right on your Web page. They have a catalog of 200 fonts, and they are all quite lovely. Does the idea ring a bell? Maybe it's because Google has a very similar service which is totally free! This is something that really astounds me. How can you offer a service for such rates and expect to make money, when a behemoth like Google is ...

While you're probably not going to use Console Font as your system-wide default, it's definitely the kind of typeface that geeky types should have stashed away in your fonts folder. Hey, it's way more awesome than some of the built-in fonts you have and it only takes up a couple kilobytes of disk space, so why not? You never know when you're going to need to whip up invites for your next LAN, ...

WhatTheFont is pretty much the established player in the font identification market. The service's claim to fame is its ability to figure out what font is used in a particular image (or try to, at least). A new contender, called IdentifyFonts (original naming there!), recently came into this same space. Since they are so similar, I felt a head-to-head comparison would be the obvious thing to ...

Microsoft, Mozilla, and Opera walk into a bar...After a lengthy discussion, they put together standards proposal for WOFF -- the Web Open Font Format. OK, so I doubt they really did this in a bar back on April 8th, but the three companies did, in fact, submit WOFF to the W3C. Type foundries LettError and Type Supply were also involved in the drafting of the spec. The goal is to create a single ...

If you're looking to prove your culinary or typographical know-how (I mean, when aren't you?) then this time-waster might be just up your street! Very simply, Cheese or Font displays the name of either a font or cheese - all you have to do is correctly choose which! Whilst you won't get a score as you play - you can simply keep on playing ad inifitum - the game does tell you the percentage of ...

Ok, so maybe you don't have access to all the necessary equipment to pull this off, but if you did...It would look a lot like the contents of this Flickr gallery. Professional race driver Stef van Campenhoudt, typographers Pierre and Damien of PleaseLetMeDesign, and interactive artist Zachary Lieberman collaborated to create iQ font using a compact Toyota hatchback and an array of computer and ...

There are plenty of ways to green up your computing environment, from power saving apps like Edison to waste reducers like HP's Smart Web Printing. What about your typeface of choice? Can an intelligently crafted font really reduce your ink usage by 20%? SPRANQ - a Utrecht-based communications firm - thinks it's possible. To that end, they've put a lot of time and effort into designing Ecofont. ...

What the font from My Fonts is a web site designed to help you figure out the name of a font from a JPG file submission. For example, if you want to know what font DLS uses, capture a screen shot of some text, upload it on What the font and see what you find out. It's pretty simple to use, just upload the image, fill in any missing letters and let the site do the work for you. I submitted ...

We love free fonts, but sometimes the process of finding half-decent ones can be pretty annoying. Fontspace.com tries to smooth out the rough spots for free font junkies. Instead of simply categorizing fonts, Fontspace uses the good ol' tagging system - which provides easier access to similar fonts. The broad categories on some other sites (sorry DaFont) often lead to large, tiresome lists that ...

You just have to love an online game that knows exactly what it aims to be. And the concept of this game is, well, rather difficult. The Rather Difficult Font Game tests your ability to recognize typefaces by showing you a piece of text and then four font names. Your job is to correctly choose the correct typeface. As with any multiple-choice test with a limited set of answers, this game becomes ...

The more fonts you have installed on your Windows computer, the slower it boots. It's one of those basic facts of life. It's not fair, but it's true. Because Windows needs to read each and every font while it's loading, it can take 30 seconds longer to boot a system with 1000 fonts installed than one with 100. It turns out Windows XP installs just 44 fonts. All the other fonts on your system were ...

There are free icon sets and icon fonts all over the internet, but nothing is as special as one that represents the place you call home. 10four design based out of Vancouver BC has put up for the taking an iconic font that represents Canadian life. All things Canadian come together in this special set called Adanac, including beer, lumberjacks, kraft dinner, poutine, zambonis, beavers, toques ...

I don't have any confirmation on this, but fadtastic says that for the first time in history, Times New Roman is not the default font in Microsoft Office, its status having been usurped in Office 2007 by Microsoft's pretty new star Calibri. The venerable and ubiquitous font is still included in the office suite, of course, and the new version of Office is still in beta and things may be reshuffled ...