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15 Monospaced Typefaces to Try This Year

January 29, 2021 by Sangalang Kristine Leave a Comment

Monospaced typefaces are among the common trends for blogs and websites this year. In recent years, there have been ongoing movements towards simplicity and minimalism. In fact, it became so popular that it has affected even the digital world. This includes website design, blogging, and even content creation. Not just that, monospaced typefaces are actually quite soothing for the eyes. In this font design, each character occupies the same amount of horizontal space. They are known as fixed-width and non-proportional.

Here are some of the coolest monospaced typefaces to try this year:

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: blog fonts, font, fonts

Why Fonts on the Web Are a Copyright Mess

June 10, 2011 by Jonathan Bailey

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Font ImageIf you design websites, you know well that the list of Web-safe fonts, though having grown some over the years, is very short compared to the number of fonts available in the world.

In fact, only a fraction of a percent of all fonts created are available to Web designers. Though, considering how hideous some fonts are that might actually be a good thing to a degree, there’s not much doubt that the Web would be a more vibrant and more readable place with more options available.

One cause of this has been the technical challenges that make adding more fonts difficult, including the fact that different operating systems have different fonts installed by default and installing fonts has, historically, been difficult to do,

However, there’s also been a set of legal obstacles that have prevented an explosion in Web fonts and kept many of the most popular fonts in the world from being truly web safe.

What can be done about this? First we have to understand the problem and then look at what others are doing to make the Web a much more exciting place for font lovers. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: copyright, font, Google, google font api, typekit, woff

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