Elaborate typography has been slow to emerge on the Web. Now the underlying technology is in place, and Google is trying to help supply fonts as well. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

Co.Design talks to Mandy Brown of Typekit about why the service, which was recently acquired by Adobe, improved the web (and not just for designers). Before web fonts, type designers offered desktop ...

Adobe has acquired web-font service Typekit. Typekit helped pioneer the use of fancy fonts on the web thanks to its easy-to-use service which takes care of licensing, font loading and cross-browser ...

At the heart of the matter is how CSS 3 will handle how fonts will be downloaded for webpages. The typeface issue has less to do with CSS standards and more to do with intellectual property of those ...

Good web typography needn't be difficult, but typography can be a complicated and sometimes intimidating subject for newcomers. To help you understand typography a bit better – and create ...

Web design has certainly come a long way since the first HTML files were published, and Cascading Style Sheets have given designers lots of freedom to specify typefaces, sizes, and styles for text.

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--At its MAX 2011 technology conference, Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that it has acquired privately held Typekit Inc., a leader in the delivery ...

As shown in the Create The Web event, Adobe recently launched an entirely new family of Edge products focused on emerging Web technologies and open standards. This is a promising development on ...

Web typography just got a shot in the arm from Google, as the company has announced a free, open-source library of 18 typefaces that Web designers will now have at their disposal. Google hosts all the ...

What does Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA) have in common with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)? TypeCon. This week at SOTA’s annual conference, W3C plans on initiating discussion around ...