cool stuff for web typography
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Cool Stuff for Web Typography(Web)fontday, 8 November 2014Typographische Gesellschaft München
© 2014 Oliver Linke | Lazydogs Typefoundrylinke @ lazydogs.de
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Find and choose (web)fonts
FontShop Plugin
FontShop Plugin
Works with– Adobe Photoshop CS5 / CS5.5 / CS6 / CC*– Adobe Illustrator CS5 / CS6 / CC*– Adobe InDesign CS5 / CS6 / CC*– Adobe Fireworks CS5 / CS6 / CC** The plugin supports Adobe CC but not CC 2014
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Font Gazer (Monotype)
FontGazer by fonts.com
Works with– Adobe InDesign CS5 und CS5.5
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Suitcase and Google Webfonts
Suitcase Fusion (Extensis) with Google Webfonts available for desktop activation
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Suitcase
Suitcase Fusion (Extensis) Plugin for Creative Suite (e.g. Photoshop)
But: The WebINK library will be closed 2015
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Skyfonts
Skyfontshttps://skyfonts.com/
– fonts.com– MyFonts– Google Fonts– Monotype
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Free Fonts (Families for Desktop & Web)
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Free Fonts (Single Fonts for Desktop & Web) 10
Try out and testdrive (web)fonts
Typetester (Creative Nights / Marco Dugonjić) – www.typetester.org 12
Webfonter (Fontshop) – http://webfonter.fontshop.com/
Originally published by Tim Ahrens as »Facitizer«
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Font Swapper (Webtype) – http://www.webtype.com/tools/swapper/
same here …
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Fontsquirrel Webfont GeneratorConversions from OpenType to TrueType, WOFF/2, EOT and SVG
Conversion tools – www.fontsquirrel.com/tools/webfont-generator 15
Conversion tools – https://github.com/briangonzalez/fontprep
FontPrep (Brian & Matthew Gonzalez )Conversions from OpenType to TrueType, WOFF, EOT and SVG (no WOFF2)
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Up-to-the-minute numbers – www.caniuse.com 17
stateofwebtype.com – http://stateofwebtype.com/beta
by Bram Stein
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Scripts ’n’ apps
Lettering.js – www.letteringjs.com
Lettering.js»A jQuery plugin for radical web typography«Kerning (kern.js), responsive type sizes (FitText.js) …Also many examples of applied webfonts …But: not compliant with accessibility standards (Barrierefreiheit)
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Typecast (Monotype) – http://typecast.com/ 21
epub Zip, UnZip and Check – https://code.google.com/p/epub-applescripts/
Klaus.epub ePub Zip/Unzip
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Sigil – https://github.com/user-none/Sigil
SigilFree, open source, multi-platform ebook editor. Designed to edit books in ePub format.
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To Dos
Further reading – www.rastertragedy.com
The Raster Tragedy at Low-Resolution Revisited:Opportunities and Challenges beyond “Delta-Hinting”
by Beat Stamm
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Adobe Type UI Petition – http://ilovetypography.com … ( http://bit.ly/1oujVXw )
Please Sign!
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