Category Archives: Typography

CSS Font-Family and Installed Fonts in Linux, Windows and Mac

By jeffmcneill | Published: November 4, 2009
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 [...]
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3 Fonts with good Thai and Roman character support

By jeffmcneill | Published: August 21, 2009
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 [...]
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