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Items tagged recovered, fonts in 2010

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Pictos. Here’s something new: a for-sale font containing a set of beautiful royalty-free icons (like Wingdings, but good) designed to be embedded in web applications using @font-face. Small file sizes, scalable vectors without SVG. Not sure about the accessibility implications though. # 17th August 2010, 8:54 pm

Repolygonizing Fonts (via) Part of Scribd’s fascinating series of posts explaining how their document conversion technology works. # 30th June 2010, 1:04 pm

Google Font Directory: Font Preview. Handy tool for trying out the 18 open source fonts Google have released, along with server-side browser sniffing technology that serves up the correct version (including for IE6). The browser sniffing makes me a bit uncomfortable—will it play well with intermediate caches? What happens if I save a local copy of a page and then open it up in a different browser? # 20th May 2010, 3:20 pm

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