With the rebirth of flat design and the popularity of minimalism, typography is taking a more central role in Web design. These styles are not mutually exclusive, and in fact are usually combined (as ...

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 ...

Fluid typography uses responsive scaling to ensure readability on both small and large displays, while variable fonts allow multiple weights, widths, and styles to be included within a single file.

Co.Design talks to Mandy Brown of Typekit about why the service, which was recently acquired by Adobe, improved the web (and not just for designers). Before web fonts, type designers offered desktop ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Since the World Wide Web’s earliest days, whether you were shopping on ...

Improvements to CSS3, in particular a revival of the @font-face directive for linking to server-based fonts, promise to allow designers to deliver richer and more nuanced typography on the Web. And ...

Web typography has long been hampered by a limited choice of fonts and poor display results, but this could be about to change. Scott Billings looks at what embedded fonts and next-generation browsers ...