fonts

Web fonts for ancient Greek

This is a test of various symbols and how they display in web fonts. First we have to test what fonts are installed on typical browsers.

Test of Fonts Installed

If not installed, will show as monospaced (or serif if already a monospaced font).

Useful Unicode symbols resources

Here are some links to some Unicode symbols listings

Fonts that best display symbols

Submitted by Andrew on Sat, 08/20/2011 - 15:25

This is a test of various symbols and how they display in web fonts. First we have to test what fonts are installed on typical browsers.

Test of Fonts Installed

If not installed, will show as Webdings, (assuming Webdings is on your computer).

A Plea From 16 Most Overused Fonts

Submitted by Andrew on Thu, 08/18/2011 - 20:04

Fun post about overused fonts:

Fonts that got together with a plea to give them a break and forget about their existence for the next 25 years.

Every typeface ever designed was created to serve a certain purpose with a specific mood or tone. In addition to the individual traits of each font and its family, there are only two kinds of types — display and text. Display faces, known for their decorative features, are meant to be used sparingly and in bigger sizes, they are illegible otherwise. Text faces are great for extensive amounts of readable copy, they commonly sport a conservative no-frills look. More here: www.inspirationbit.com/…-fonts

Linux Font Equivalents to Popular Web Typefaces

Submitted by Andrew on Thu, 08/18/2011 - 19:59

Very useful article:

I have written before about my admiration for Web typography, and in that article I touched on the fact that many “Web safe” fonts can’t be applied to Linux. Linux distributions each ship with their own font libraries, but I’d like to focus on similar typefaces you can use within a font-family to help make your design bulletproof.
Like Windows & OS X, Linux does type too

I’ve been a Linux user for some time now, and Linux is my platform of choice both at work and at home. My distribution of choice is Ubuntu not because it’s the most popular, but because I’ve tried a wide variety of Linux versions, and Ubuntu works the best for me. I say this because I’m going to focus on the fonts that ship by default with Ubuntu, so there may be some discrepancy among distributions.

more here

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