Learn To Use Unique Web Fonts
At CreativePro.com, Dave Sawyer McFarland has a two-part article on how to use an online Web fonts service to use custom fonts on your Web pages. He focuses on how to use Font Squirrel’s @font-face kits and its @font-face generator.
I like the article because it not only explains the concepts and steps you through the process, it shows how COMPLICATED it is to use. Not a bad thing, just complicated. I fully expect a simplified workflow to appear in the near future — designers will demand it. (Because that’s exactly what happened to some previously complicated Web procedures.)
Read the two-part article at www.tinyurl.com/yglg9cu and www.tinyurl.com/ybmjnz9.
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.