Friday, November 30, 2012

Free Fonts, Web Fonts & Font Smoothing

OK, I have seen quite a few free font websites in my time, but this one is quite good:
http://www.font-db.com/

If you are planning on using web fonts in your site, this is a good Google reference site:
http://www.google.com/webfonts

This site has a great layout of some of the best of Google webfonts:
http://hellohappy.org/beautiful-web-type/

Now, how do you use web fonts?
It's actually super easy... but there are a few things to consider.
This is a good place to start:
https://developers.google.com/webfonts/docs/getting_started

For the more advanced front end coders out there... this is a great discussion on font smoothing or not... http://www.usabilitypost.com/2012/11/05/stop-fixing-font-smoothing/


Happy fontlicating!