Well, it has been a couple of years since web fonts started getting hot and trending through the interwebs. There was a healthy (or unhealthy, depending on your point of view) period where everyone was hyping the technology, but few were using web fonts to any perceptible extent. But nowadays, more and more websites are [...]
It's that time of year again, when we look back at some of our favorite fonts to emerge during 2011. This year's top ten list (in no particular order, by the way), includes some stylized fonts, some hand-drawn and script fonts, and some lovely sans serifs. Click on the pictures to go to any font's [...]
Round about 2000, I stumbled across a software project that restored my will to live. The MAME project was developing software that made it possible to run old arcade and console games on any platform — in simple terms, I could download their free software and run old arcade games on my PC. I grew [...]
Every so often I surf over to MyFonts.com and do an advanced search (they have nice search tools on their site!) for free fonts. (The search string winds up being http://new.myfonts.com/search/lowest_price%3A0/fonts/ if you feel like bookmarking it.) And I found some great ones this time around. Some font designers are just flat-out generous and give [...]
In the good old days, all software, even $20 games, came with printed manuals. I remember rolling my eyes whenever I opened a new PC game, and saw a small book inside — if you really needed a manual to play a game, you might be a little dense. (In fairness, there were always one [...]
I’ve more or less converted to a Mac fanboy these days, but I still have a PC in my home office that I use for those programs that will only run on Windows (full disclosure: games, for the most part), and just the other night, with some time to kill, I sat down at my [...]
I was in a college library recently, and pulled out a tome that clearly hadn’t seen much action in recent years. It turned out not to be relevant to what I was searching for, and I was about to blithely replace it on its shelf, when I spotted a newish piece of paper sticking partially [...]
