Tag: TYPE

It ain't no Lorizzle, but LittleIpsum is pretty cool nevertheless -- a Mac application that lives in your menu bar and generates actual Latin Lorem Ipsum. It can do words, sentences or paragraphs, depending on your mood and/or needs, can wrap the generated text into HTML tags, and it supports Growl notifications. It can be set to start each time you log in and automatically download updates if ...

Are you tired of reading the same Lorem Ipsum text wherever, well, Lorem Ipsum shows up? (Let's not get into why you'd be reading Lorem Ipsum in the first place.) Do you have to use Lorem Ipsum text on a regular basis, and have you always secretly wished there was some way to jazz it up a bit? Enter Lorizzle. It's a gangsta Lorem Ipsum generator. Yes, gangsta. And it's easy to use, too: you ...

Here's one for the font nerds: there's a CSS declaration called optimizeLegibility that fixes kerning and ligatures in a lot of Web fonts. For the less design-savvy amongst us, that means it makes sure certain letter pairs are spaced properly and combined into special characters where appropriate. Designers don't always use optimizeLegibility, though, so it's time to take matters into your own ...

Typography on the web is a major source of difficulty for designers today. There are so few "web-safe" fonts, and there's no standard way to bring new ones into the equation. Well, Google has taken a big step toward addressing that problem, by introducing an open source font library, and an API that makes it easy to use the new fonts on your own webpage. That means that along with Georgia, ...

If you're a big typography nerd, FontShop's FontShuffle app for iPhone will be right up your alley. FontShuffle lets you carry samples of the typefaces in FontShop's extensive catalog around in your pocket, ready for those on-the-go font identification situations. If you ever need to settle an argument about what font the restaurant used for the dinner menu, just whip out your iPhone or iPod Touch ...

Designers know the words "lorem ipsum" all too well. If you've mocked up a layout for anything with chunks of text in it, you've probably run across the infamous Latin paragraphs that commonly show up as filler. Where do you get your lorem ipsum, though, and how do you make sure it's the right fit for your design? Lorem2 is one great way to do it. Lorem2 is a nicely laid-out collection of lorem ...

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 ...