The technology and strategy for using a variety of fonts on a website is turning into a big story in 2010. And with QuarkXPress’s ability to create Web pages (from existing print pages or from scratch), these new technologies deserve some attention from Planet Quark. :-)
For a fun peek at one approach, see FontShop’s FontFonter website at www.fontfonter.com, where you can select any existing Web page and then choose among several dozen FontShop fonts that are available for use on websites. Your chosen Web page then displays as it would appear if you used one of those fonts. You can choose to replace only the sans-serif or serif fonts with your choice of fonts, or replace all the fonts on the page with one font.
For more information on using Web fonts, see the video at Ascender’s www.fontslive.com. And for a free source of about 30 fonts, and more information about using Web fonts, see Google Font Directory at http://code.google.com/webfonts.
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Jeff Gamet - who has written 419 posts on Planet Quark.
Jeff Gamet is a contributing editor for Design Tools Monthly, the executive summary of graphic design news. He is also the morning editor and reviews editor for The Mac Observer and iPodObserver.com, and contributing writer for Layers Magazine and Photoshop User. He writes the InBrief column for InDesign Magazine, and is the author of "The Designer's Guide to Mac OS X," from Peachpit Press
When Jeff isn't writing about the graphic design world, he's talking about it on the Design Tools Weekly podcast with co-host Jay Nelson. He also talks about Apple and the Mac world every week on The Mac Observer's Apple Weekly Report.
Jeff studies, tests and reviews new software and technologies for the Macintosh community as well as the design and print industries. He is a former Pre-press specialist, and has nearly 25 years experience with computer technology. Jeff trains, lectures and consults on techniques for more efficiently using Mac OS X in creative environments throughout the country.
In the rare moments when he can get away from his MacBook Pro, Jeff spends his time climbing and biking in the Colorado mountains.
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