Nearly all web pages today use styled text via means of what’s known as Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS for short. However, one portion of web design that’s largely ignored is reading anything in teletype/monospaced text. Web forms, programming code, block-quoting in forums and a whole bunch of other stuff use a teletype font often. Since most...

Recently I walked into a department store where roughly a third of the property was under renovation. As such, they had to move a few departments to other locations within the store while the renovations were taking place. Several signs were printed out and posted that directed people where to go – and every single one of them was in...

Every time I see Times New Roman or Arial for use as header fonts on print or PowerPoint presentations, I die a little inside because it looks really, really tacky. The Google Font Directory has been growing in size. Every font there does have a TTF for download that you can install right now – free. The fonts shown are best used in larger sizes, so they...

In every major modern operating system, the default look of all fonts is treated with anti-aliasing, a.k.a. font smoothing. In Windows you know this as ClearType. It is true that having ClearType enabled makes fonts easier to read most of the time. However there are instances where having it turned off makes text easier to read, specifically when dealing with...

This is a follow-up to Jason’s article on using default fonts, specifically concentrating on Firefox on applying them to all web pages you visit in a friendly way. One of the most underrated features of a web browser is the ability to view web pages using any font you want while still retaining the site’s style. It’s one thing to change a...

Windows Live Mail is a great email client, no question. But one very longstanding complaint is the way it renders fonts. Whereas in other mail clients it’s stupidly easy to make mails look a specific way for text, in Windows Live Mail (and the previous Outlook Express) it is, put politely, a challenge. This tutorial is how to get the fonts to look...

I have been a long-time reader of both UseIt.com and Web Pages That Suck. Both concentrate on what’s called web usability. Web usability can be defined by answering a simple question: How easy is it to use your web site? A large portion of ease of use comes from your selection of colors and fonts. Color: Foreground and Background Black on white is always...

[hidepost=1]Font Name HTML ExampleABLib BT <font face=”ABLib BT”>…</font> ABLib BT — ABCdef123Amazone BT <font face=”Amazone BT”>…</font> Amazone BT — ABCdef123Americana <font face=”Americana”>…</font> Americana — ABCdef123Arial <font...

Are you looking to give your web site, graphics, papers, etc. a unique flair? If so a simple and effective way do this is with a non-standard font. While you could make your own, a better option is usually to use an existing one. If you are looking for a font to use, then take a look at Search Free Fonts. The appropriately named site, Search Free Fonts, has over...