The time for New Adventures is nearly upon us! I’ve been building slides for my talk as well as prepping materials for my workshop on controlling web typography. The plan is to spend some time exploring the finer points of using web fonts and setting type on the web, then experiment with newer CSS properties and Lettering.js. Throughout the workshop, we’ll discuss fluid content and responsive web design... Read more →
Molly Holzschlag wrote a great article for .Net Magazine outlining seven things still missing from CSS. She gets into web fonts on #5, which is my favorite. I particularly liked this point: Fine control remains elusive – kerning, character spacing – controlling these aspects are both difficult to specify for numerous reasons. This is frustrating to designers who love typography and want to have that finer control. Huzzah! I couldn’t... Read more →
I recently wrote a tutorial on texturizing web type for .Net magazine (Issue 221). One of my favorite CSS properties for text, mask-image, is covered in-depth from creating a semi-transparent texture in Photoshop to implementing it with HTML & CSS. To take things further, I added in a CSS transform to get that skew, then dropped in FitText to make it all scalable for use in your fluid/responsive layout.... Read more →
Gene Crawford from UnmatchedStyle asked Paravel to design a page for this year’s CSS Off competition. Over 5,000 front-end developers have entered to show off their skills by taking a PSD we designed and coding it out. Entries will be judged and prizes will be awarded. Awesome! After a morning of team planning and intensive YouTube research, we settled on building a page for a fictitious gameshow on the... Read more →
Since upgrading to Lion I’ve noticed a font rendering issue with Safari 5.1. Sites were randomly displaying some web-safe and web-served fonts with the Last Resort font, AKA “Block-A Characters.” These can appear for a variety of reasons, but I was getting them because Safari 5.1 has a compatibility issue when rendering fonts for those who use 3rd party font management apps. I use Font Explorer and love... Read more →
The present & future of web fonts is looking awfully bright. Quality and Quantity are increasing, though there are still a few fonts I have to pass over when designing for the web. While I don’t know if all of these are in the pipeline to become web fonts, I have to believe that all type foundries are moving in that direction so that their fonts remain useful.... Read more →
