The FontFeed is a daily dispatch of recommended fonts, typography techniques, and inspirational examples of digital type at work in the real world.
The Font Feed
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A glossary of common type terminology, which along with the FAQs may answer many font related questions. If the information you need isn’t here, let Font Shop know.
Typeface Anatomy and Glossary
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A look at over 80 gorgeous typefaces for professional design, based upon suggestions from designers and web-developers all over the world.
80 Beautiful Typefaces For Professional Design.
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Abstract
The effects of 6 foreground/background color combinations (color), 3 font types (Arial, Courier New, & Times New Roman), and 2 word styles (Italicized & Plain) on readability of websites were investigated. Participants (N=42) scanned simulated websites for a target word; readability was inferred from reaction time (RT). An ANOVA showed significant main effects for color and font, and several significant interactions. A control experiment (N=21) using black text on shades of gray (to increase generalization to Internet browser settings), also found significant main effects for background gray level and style, and several interactions. In general these results suggest that there is no one foreground/background combination, font, or word style which leads to the fastest RT (i.e. best readability), but rather a designer must consider how each variable affects the other(s).
Readability Of Websites With Various Foreground / Background Color Combinations, Font Types And Word Styles
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Code Style provides you with listing of periodically updated font survey results for all platforms the cumulative total of all valid font survey submissions since January 2004.
A Comparison of Popular Online Fonts: Which Size and Type is Best?
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A resource for grid based design.
The Grid System.