Designers these days tend to rely on ‘the cloud’ as much as they rely on their desktop applications. This means they turn to Web Apps and Google whenever possible. It’s often cheaper, faster and more useful to work this way, especially for the little guys who may not have access to all the tools that more established designers have.
The type foundry used to be a high cost, highly skilled operation. Now neither is the case as a few web apps have made it incredibly easy to make your own fonts. Here’s a look a few of them:
If you’re a designer, you’ve likely got several hundred fonts installed (or more) on your computer. This causes a problem in many applications on OSX (Entourage, Mail, Safari, Firefox and others). I noticed it when browsing the web, certain fonts would render weird. What I originally thought was a bug in my browser turned out to be a problem in some of the more recent versions of OSX after installing several new fonts.
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There’s a buzz spreading through the web design community like a virus. It’s called sIFR (Scalable Inman Flash Replacement). What is sIFR? Essentially, it’s a technology that replaces short passages of plain browser text with text rendered in the typeface of your choice, regardless of whether or not your users have that font installed on their systems.
It accomplishes this by using a combination of javascript, CSS, and Flash. Here is the entire process:
