“Cure for the Common Font” — A Web Designer’s Intro to Typeface Selection - Speaker Deck

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How to Evaluate the Quality of a Font

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Too many choices?

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Not All Fonts are Created Equal

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Does the font have a minimum character set?

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AaBbCcDdEeFf GgHhIiJjKkLlMmNn OoPpQqRrSsTtUu VvWwXxYyZz 1234567890 “‘({[?!&$¢]}).’”

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Does the font have extended Latin or non-Latin?

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za, Abkhazian, Adyghe, Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Altaic, Arabic transliteration,Avar, Aymara, Azeri (C kar, Bashkir, Basque, Belarusian, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Buryat, Catalan, Chechen, Cheyenne, Chi vash, Cornish, Crimean Tatar, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dargin, Dungan, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Es n, Finnish, French, Frisian, Friulian, Galician, Ganda, German, Gikuyu, Greek, Greek (polytonic), Green waiian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Indonesian, Ingush, Interlingua, Irish Gaelic, Italian, Javanese, Kabar akalpak, Kashubian, Kazakh, Khakas, Khanty, Kinyarwanda, Kirghyz, Kiribati, Kirundi, Komi, Kongo, K in), Kwanyama, Lak, Latvian, Lezgian, Lithuanian, Luxemburgish, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malt dovan, Mongolian, Mordvin (Erzya), Mordvin (Moksha), Maori, Nanai, Nauruan, Navajo, Ndebele (No uthern), Nenets, Newari, Nivkh, Nogai, Norwegian (Bokmål), Norwegian (Nynorsk), Oromo, Ossetic, P echua, Rhaeto-Romanic, Romani, Romanian, Russian, Rutul, Samoan, Sanskrit, Sanskrit transliteration mi (Lule), Sámi (Northern), Sámi (Southern), Selkup, Serbian (Cyrillic), Serbian (Latin), Shona, Silesian, in), Sorbian, Sotho, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swati, Swedish, Tabasaran, Tagalog (Filipino), Tahiti Jaký jazyk ovládáte? Que língua você fala? Çfarë gjuhe do të flisni?

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Does the font have siblings and cousins?

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Born in Scotland, Alexander Cockburn grew up in Youghal, County Cork, Ireland. He is the eldest son of the well- known sometime communist author and journalist, Claud Cockburn, by his third wife, Patricia Byron, née Arbuthnot. Since moving to the United States, Cockburn has written for many publications, including Esquire and Harper’s.

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Light Italic Regula Medium Italic Se Italic Bold Italic Medium Semibold Light Regular Medium Image courtesy of Fontshop.be

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Is the font well-spaced?

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Milwaukee VOWED Taxation

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Typotheque Webtype Typekit

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Does the font look good across browsers and platforms?

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Mac OS X Windows 7

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Hang on, I’m almost done.

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Thank you.

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