The software colossus signs up to sponsor standardization of the Web Open Font Format technology. Support in IE9 looks likely. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

One of the biggest font foundries is releasing a catalog of nearly 8,000 fonts for Web pages. The move will help designers add polish--and create a new revenue stream for the company. Stephen ...

Typography is one of the most important aspects of any design. It’s a topic you can spend your life studying, and luckily computers make it easy to have hundreds of fonts at our fingertips. All you ...

As shown in the Create The Web event, Adobe recently launched an entirely new family of Edge products focused on emerging Web technologies and open standards. This is a promising development on ...

Slowly, but surely, web browsers are creeping towards some form of parity when it comes to using custom fonts in CSS. It's rather disturbing how long it's taken considering that dynamic fonts were ...

The Web Open Font Format, already backed by Mozilla and many type foundries was accepted by the World Wide Web Consortium yesterday, marking the first stage in its standardization. The submission ...

What does Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA) have in common with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)? TypeCon. This week at SOTA’s annual conference, W3C plans on initiating discussion around ...

Font foundry Typotheque has introduced a new web font system that gives web authors a new set of font embedding options for their website designs. However, as cool as Typotheque's new tools are, they ...

While Web publishing continues to challenge the printed page as the primary means of sharing text, in one aspect it still lags way behind Johannes Gutenberg’s 500 year old technology: Web developers ...

Want to start using web fonts, but you're not really sold on the benefits? Head over to FontFonter, a neat little tool that lets you try web fonts on any website out there. I did the deed on Webmonkey ...