Usability and Web Fonts Usability is not just about user interaction but has a lot to do with user access. As such, Flash should be considered dead to the designer and developer. We won’t rehearse all of the claims against it (especially the well thought out ones from the hangman’s noose). But basically, we simply [...]
Category Archives: Typography
PDF CSS Font-Family and Installed Fonts in Linux, Windows and Mac
Web Typography, Fonts, CSS, oh my Web typography aka CSS font-family relies on installed Fonts which are handled by the operating system. Boo. Even more distressing is the multi-platform diversity of fonts out there. To be more precise, it’s not diversity that is the problem, but the lack of diversity. For example, a recent linux/unix [...]
3 Fonts with good Thai and Roman character support
One challenge for using Thai script on a computer is that Thai characters are more vertical than roman alphabet characters. If one is mixing roman and Thai characters in a document, the Thai characters tend to be much smaller (and therefore illegible if the roman characters are optimized for space and legibility). At this point [...]