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Web design typography links

amelandri — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 09:11:36 +0000

The League of Moveable Type
Web Design is 95% Typography
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Some links about web design typography. Check out the League of Moveable Type for free, open-source fonts to be used with the @font-face property.

Fix ttf-mscorefonts-installer in Karmic Koala

amelandri — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:47:16 +0000

A fix for the ttf-mscorefonts-installer problem in Ubuntu 9.10, waiting for an official bugfix

Howto: Fix ttf-mscorefonts-installer problems in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala « Friendly Tech Ninja.

Better fonts for Lotus Notes 8.5 in Ubuntu

amelandri — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:49:17 +0000

I’ve just installed Lotus Notes 8.5 on Ubuntu and the first thing I noticed was the horrible fonts used in the interface. I’ve searched for a setting, but couldn’t find none so Goggle helped me: Notes is looking for a font called Luxi contained in the package ttf-xfree86-nonfree.

Installation is very simple:

sudo apt-get install ttf-xfree86-nonfree

Insert your password and you are done.

Compact font styles

amelandri — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:45:52 +0000

This is a simple tip that can help you reduce your style sheet size. Take a look at this CSS portion:

font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 1.1em;
font-weight: bold;
font-style: italic;
line-height: 1.5em;
font-variant: uppercase;

All these properties can be condensed into a one row expression using this syntax:

font: fontSize/lineHeight weight style variant family;

See the example below:

font: 1.1em/1.5em bold italic uppercase Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;

Just remember that this syntax will only function if you specify both font-size and font-family.