Ladies and gentlemen, you’re witnessing the beginning of a revolution – “Axel” font family designed by Erik Spiekermann will be embeddable via @font-face. FontShop’s move could push other big players to update their EULAs and let us all reap benefits from the new era of web typography.
Paul Hayes came up with 3D Cube using CSS transformations:
What you see is pure HTML+CSS(!) rendered by Webkit/Firefox3.5.
Alongside with newest WebKit builds, Mozilla is adding lots of new and promising features to Gecko:
HTML5 and @font-face support!
Media Queries, allowing website/webapp developers to load certain stylesheets depending on the device properties, like:
display’s aspect ratio, bits per color, color/monochrome display, etc.
Nearly all of those properties accept min/max prefixes, and can be combined using logical operators,
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FontAvailable is a short and brilliant jQuery plugin (put together by Howard Rauscher), that allows to check if ceratin font is installed on a visitor’s computer/device. Why, you ask? So you can select an adequate method of enhancing your website/webapp typography (@font-face, sIFR, typeface.js, cufón, etc.).
$(document).ready(function() {
if($.fontAvailable('klavika')) {
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