Jeffrey Zeldman's Blog, page 106
April 2, 2010
Friday Font: TeeFranklin
Gloriously available for @font-face embedding, TeeFranklin by Suomi Type Foundry at Fontspring is a family of 14 weights/styles that may be perfect when you want to offer something a tad different from Helvetica and Franklin while retaining many of the qualities that make those fonts great.
April 1, 2010
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I get just enough brain-dead, sub-literate, off-topic rants here that I'm considering removing comments altogether. Discuss.
Web Standards Trinkets
Support Web Standards: A collection of limited edition products, created so you can show your love and support for web standards.
Designing With Web Standards 3rd Edition on Boagworld
There's been a lot more opportunities for just thinking outside the very strict design parameters that we usually work with. Then just thinking about not just designing for any particular device but a particular context. Because even if you are on a mobile phone, if you're viewing something on a subway in the morning versus in the middle of the office at 10:30, your environment sort of dictates how you want to interface with a particular piece of content. That's really what's...
On Basecamp
In an interview at 37signals, I discuss how the Happy Cog team uses Basecamp to coordinate projects across three studios and maintain accurate client communications.
March 30, 2010
What the FAQ?
In Issue No. 303 of A List Apart, for people who make websites, we question the received wisdom about FAQs, and learn that, in the land of the colorblind, contrast is king.
Contrast is King
by LESLIE JENSEN-INMAN
Being colorblind doesn't mean not seeing color. It means seeing it differently. If colorblindness challenges the colorblind, it also challenges designers. Some of us think designing sites that are colorblind-friendly means sticking with black and white, or close to it. ...
March 29, 2010
Test Print
Coming soon to a web store near you.
Brandon Grotesque
Brandon Grotesque is a sans serif family of six weights plus matching italics, designed by Hannes von Döhren.
Influenced by the geometric-style sans serif faces that were popular during the 1920s and 30s, the fonts are based on geometric forms that have been optically corrected for better legibility. Brandon Grotesque has a functional look with a warm touch.
The Regular weight is free through April 15.
March 27, 2010
Content wants to be paid for
Content wants to be free like communism works, like sex is just for fun, like a few days of snow disprove global warming. That the web's existence makes all content free is a Brooklyn Bridge most of us have bought, but it just ain't true, as Erin Kissane makes clear in Content is Expensive at Incisive.nu.
Go there, read it, and understand why (just like newspaper reporting and books), web content costs money and must be paid for or subsidized. Either that or it must serve some ...
