In Web Design, The Narrow Column Is King
Mar 10, 2012
Get used to it. Learn to live with it. Make it work for you.
Check this out: Re-Thinking The Mobile Web
It takes a good twenty minutes to get through but it’s worth it. Even if you are already familiar with the pitfalls of trying to accommodate all the different screen sizes out there. Maybe especially if you’re already familiar with the pitfalls.
My friend Jerry Maddox – Professor of Art and teacher of New Media Design at Penn State is totally on the right track. He’s obsessed with finding the absolute minimal one-column layout with as little CSS as possible. Something that can be committed completely to memory, preferably. Here’s the latest iteration featuring the same text and CSS using each of 5 free open-source web fonts of high visual quality.
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A Free RasterBRIDGE® Web Font: Puffbuddy Light
Feb 29, 2012
What you see above is a screen shot taken on Windows XP.
It looks smooth and clean, right?
Unlike most so-called ‘web fonts’, all RasterBRIDGE® Web Fonts are specially prepared to look as good in Windows as they do on the Mac,
and on the iPad,
and on the iPhone,
and on the Kindle Fire, and so on and so forth.
Before we ship, we test the font in a wide variety of browsers on all major platforms and devices.
As a RasterBRIDGE® Web Font, Puffbuddy Light will remain balloony, buoyant, and jolly in any browser, on any platform.
Download it here and spread the word. Enjoy.
What’s The Font Got?
Puffbuddy Light features the HTML Basics+ Character Set. That means you get all the important HTML character entities, a full complement of spacing characters and you’re covered for the following languages:
• English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Irish, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish.
RasterBRIDGE® Web Fonts Stay Small and Load Fast
RasterBRIDGE® Web Fonts are specially compressed to stay small and load fast. The Puffbuddy Light TTF font file weighs in at only 41 kb, the Woff at 28kb, and the EOT at 26kb. A whole font for the size of a small image!
And did we mention that, for the “price” of those 28 kilobytes compressed, the HTML Basics+ Character Set also covers these languages, too:
Basque, Albanian, Gaelic (Irish), Gaelic (Manx), Gaelic (Scottish), Luxembourgish, Afrikaans, Haitian_Creole, Indonesian, Javanese, Estonian, Fijian, Filipino/Tagalog, Afar, Bislama, Breton, Chamorro, Comorian, Faroese, Gilbertiese/Kiribati, Kinyanwanda, Kirundi, Luba/Ciluba/Kasai, Malagasy, Malay, Marquesan, Ndebele, Oromo, Palauan/Belauan, Quechua, Romansh, Sango, Sesotho, Setswana/Sitswa, Seychellois_Creole, SiSwati/Swati/Swazi, Somali, Sotho, Swahili, Tetum, Tok_Pisin, Tongan, Tsonga, Tswana, Tuvaluan, Uzbek/Usbek, Walloon, Xhosa, and Zulu.
¡WOW!
Ett stort värde. Ein großer Wert. A mikils virði. Yon gwo valè. Një vlerë e madhe.
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