Google Font Directory
Google has put out a free font directory which not only lets you download it but also lets you embed it right from google’s URL. After that you can style the font in CSS, even put a drop shadow effect if you feel like it. With a little script, you can have more control over how the font looks before and after it loads into the browser. So far there is 18 fonts available. It is so very wonderful to have selectable beautiful text.
Someone had the nerve to send us a ‘hit and run’ email telling us to not use Flash for our client’s sites. Here’s my response to that…
Just saw this in IDN magazine by Harper Collins publishers
A friend of mine has been working on this for the past 10 and a half months – this is the beta version… Curious to see how it works-
“Glass is a virtual sheet of glass over the entire web where you can literally place notes on any website.
Now, instead of sending a link, your contacts see your thought together with the moment that inspired it, in context, allowing you to share the experience of being there.”
As I review the latest IDN, Print and Communication Arts magazines, I see this evolution from the resurgence of Swiss/Dutch: minimal design aesthetic towards a more artistic, illustrative, and expressive new phase- that (er, uhm) regurgatates the 60’s overprinting techniques with the cookiness of early 70’s marketing illustrations with the fashion of the 80’s but the indie-hipsterness of the now-2010.
What I want to know is how this new ’style’ (for lack of a better word) will fit in to what we do at our studio. We don’t make posters for bands for a living. I don’t see the next-gen interfaces hand drawn with pencil. So when illustration becomes mainstream design, I’m feelin a backlash- aren’t you?! It’s not that I don’t love it- maybe I’m just jealous…
