fonts

Comparing custom font display with @font-face

This is a little experiment I conducted comparing the way different browsers render custom fonts through @font-face. What I found was that the two browsers that displayed them best were IE8 and Firefox 4 Beta. The worst browsers were Opera and Safari. Opera seemed to make the characters extra skinny, and Safari made the characters […]

Google Fonts API – It’s good and bad

Update 2017/07/17: This post was published a long time ago and a lot has changed since then. Now that font rendering has vastly improved in Browsers Google Fonts is a great choice for web fonts! Recently Google has announced a new API which allows web designers to use custom fonts in their HTML/CSS websites. This […]