{"id":3066,"date":"2010-12-14T13:35:53","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T13:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/?p=3066"},"modified":"2017-06-26T09:53:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T09:53:22","slug":"the-new-puritan-a-bombshell-in-the-font-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/the-new-puritan-a-bombshell-in-the-font-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Puritan: a bombshell in the font world"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My friend and coworker Ben Weiner<\/a> is a developer designer. As such he has the font gene – that is, he cares about typography in a deep way – thus our in joke about things being a “bombshell in the font world”. Caring about something is one thing-creating something is another. And open sourcing your work and making it available by Google Font<\/a> is yet another. In case you don’t know about Google Font you probably should – its a super simple API that gives you access to some great fonts across all the major browsers. A bit of HTML or Javascript and bob’s your uncle. Ben’s Puritan font is here.<\/p>\n

[update. I got pinged about a broken link in this post, which i have now updated. thanks to Art of Blog, which has this useful post<\/a> about choosing a typeface for the body copy in your site. To be honest, the main thing about reading my own post again, is it sets my teeth a bit on edge, because i keep saying font where I mean typeface. People use them interchangeably, which is fine until someones explains the difference – damn you Kelsey Breseman<\/a>!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Floating Frog explains the importance like so<\/div>\n
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What is a typeface?<\/strong>
\nThink of a typeface as the \u2018design\u2019 of the design of the alphabet, the shape of the letters that make up the typestyle. The letters, numbers, and symbols that make up a design of type. So when you say \u201cArial\u201d or \u201cGaramond\u201d you\u2019re talking about a set of letters in a specific style, a \u2018typeface\u2019.<\/p>\n

What is a font?<\/strong>
\nThink of a font as the digital file that contains\/describes the typeface. Think of the font as a little piece of software that tells the computer and printer how to display and print the typeface.<\/div>\n

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The typeface is the style, while the font is the weight, a description of how the typeface is used in the context. ]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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