typography

24 ways: Compose to a Vertical Rhythm

I would like to be more intentional about my typography.

Free Fonts Generator – Make Your Own Handwriting Font With Your Fonts

Many years ago I made a font from my handwriting. It took a long time and a lot of effort. This doesn’t. 🙂

50 Essential Photoshop Text Tutorials | Vandelay Design Blog

Wonder how many tutorials I can work through during the 30-day free trial of Photoshop? 🙂

Typechart – Browse Web Type, Grab CSS.

A simple-but-very-useful tool for comparing CSS font faces, also just a fun diversion for you typography nuts. 🙂

Typography Inspiration Showcase

A nice collection of type design, though it could use a little more commentary.

Simple Double Quotes

A nice, simple technique to style blockquotes. This would also work with other elements, at least in browsers that support pseudo-elements.

Tallys: Freefont of the week

I like this free font, and I really like that it’s free even for commercial use (because I’d like to use it on designs for business blogs). The font itself is serif, more formal than some, very clean with good detailing.

Dynamic Text Replacement

I’ve been using the Headline Images plugin to do this in WordPress, but it’s good to have a CMS-independent solution.

sIFR 2.0: Rich Accessible Typography for the Masses

This is a method for replacing text with Flash movies of pretty versions of that text. It’s noteworthy because it’s accessible and degradable.

25 Best License-Free Quality Fonts

An excellent list of great professional fonts. Oh, yeah, and they’re free. Maybe I don’t need a font budget!