MatthewSchenker Posted November 28, 2012 Posted November 28, 2012 Greetings, With the new design freedom that ProcessWire provides for my work, I am able to enter territory that before was too cumbersome to deal with in previous CMSs. Some of those are pretty basic, such as typography. There are lots of typography services out there: Typekit Google Fonts Lost Type Co-op Font-Zone Fontdeck I've enjoyed using Google Fonts, but I wonder what the ProcessWire community thinks... What's your favorite, and why? What is your opinion about paid versus free services? And what other typography services should I keep on my list? Thanks, Matthew
diogo Posted November 28, 2012 Posted November 28, 2012 Adobe has a nice one You should consider FontSquirrel also, lots of fonts have a web version for download.
netcarver Posted November 28, 2012 Posted November 28, 2012 @Matthew, partially on topic: have you had a look at textile for some of its typographic features (see the entities section) like automatic curly-quotes, em-dashes, elipses, dimensions etc? Ryan wrote a textformatter module for it that you can apply to your text fields. 1
OrganizedFellow Posted November 28, 2012 Posted November 28, 2012 A recent client bought me a year service to TypeKit https://typekit.com/plans Previously I used Google webfonts, because they are free. But for any times I couldn't find there, I used FontSquirrel.
onjegolders Posted November 28, 2012 Posted November 28, 2012 I use Typekit and Google Fonts too. A bit confused about Adobe fonts as they also own TypeKit :-
Martijn Geerts Posted November 28, 2012 Posted November 28, 2012 @onjegolders, you're doing more then great ! 1
Pete Posted November 29, 2012 Posted November 29, 2012 I always check Fontsquirrel first as it has a lot of good free fonts. Failing that I check some of the others linked to above but if I have a specific font in mind that's not on any of those sites I'll buy the @font-face kit from myfonts.com
MatthewSchenker Posted November 29, 2012 Author Posted November 29, 2012 Greetings Everyone, Wow! Just love the way discussions here get so many great responses. Typography is such an exciting area. One of those relatively simple things that really boosts a site's style. It's also exciting that real typographical options are still a fresh concept. It's only been around 2 years or so. To arjen: Textile is good, but that's more for styling existing typography, correct? I mean, it doesn't give you font-family options, does it? Thanks, Matthew
diogo Posted November 29, 2012 Posted November 29, 2012 Textile is not for styling. What it does is replacing some characters by the typographically correct ones.
arjen Posted November 29, 2012 Posted November 29, 2012 What I meant is that I always use Textile to preserve the styling of the website. I don't prefer a WYSIWYG because it brings the best above in people. That's why when it comes to editing web text I'm a strong believer in Textile (or Markdown). 1
panictree Posted December 6, 2012 Posted December 6, 2012 I've used Fontdeck, Google Fonts and Typekit, and have to say all three have been pretty reliable. In terms of font selection, there's no doubt Typekit has the edge here. Then, Google Fonts is really attractive not only because it's free but also because it's got some very attractive fonts, like Lato, for example, which I'm currently using on my own site. Fontdeck is also great, but their pricing structure doesn't work well for me, as you have to pay for fonts in an individual basis (Proxima Nova Light, Proxima Nova Regular and Proxima Nova Semibold would be considered as three fonts). I'm also not a huge fan of Typekit's dependency on Javascript. So, I use Google Fonts whenever I can but rely on Typekit when I need a wider font selection. Claudio 2
dragan Posted February 6, 2019 Posted February 6, 2019 I have a new favorite font: Inter Best of all, it's open-source ? 5
MatthewSchenker Posted February 6, 2019 Author Posted February 6, 2019 dragan, Hey, thanks for the font view! Always looking for something new for projects... Matthew
SamC Posted February 11, 2019 Posted February 11, 2019 On 2/6/2019 at 3:17 PM, dragan said: I have a new favorite font: Inter Best of all, it's open-source ? This is a really nice font! Thanks for this ? 1
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