Pictos Font

This dingbat font is excellent. It has been added to my shopping list—I cannot wait to use them when designing my next website.

New City Movement

My dear friend Jesse’s awesome blog is loaded with so much good content. Prepare to spend a significant chunk of time reading through great posts. My favourite things though are his designs for Nite Lite.

They are using Georgia and Lucida Grande — my two favourite web fonts, and the color scheme is clear and appropriate.

The site also has excellent content, providing the history of the fonts.

Sweet Typography

Wow, I am so torn. Her typography is beautiful, inspiring and almost makes the poor usability of her site worth it.

Dec 7 09 Update : She has a new site up, better and more web friendly than ever!

Yep.

• Notepad++  is awesome, what would we do without syntax highlighting?
• Firebug for Firefox is part of me now, I feel handicapped with out it.
• CakePHP, haven’t learned it to well yet, but my co-workers love it.
• jQuery, the magic wand of javascript.
• Better Font Stacks, a great article about… well, font stacks.
• w3schools, a goto, the bible of code

And design aids:

• Typechart, great previews of what is capable with web fonts.
• ColorSchemer is full of pretty and useful schemes and great palette software.
• A List Apart kind of applies to both categories, heaps of good articles

• When the hover state of a text link changes the font weight, it looks bad and can mess with the layout
• When body copy is composed of images of text. It is just plain bad. Spiders can’t read it, site readers can read it, it is tedious to update. I am a font junky as much as the next person but is having everything in Mrs.Eaves instead of Georgia that horrible?
• Three column layouts almost never look good.
• Having to still design some sites at 770px wide, if someone doesn’t have a better graphics card/monitor, too bad for them. Same for hacking sites for IE6. *Angrily shakes fist at IE*
• All the coding support forums that have excellent content but ugly layouts.
• Flash sites with excessive loading times and non-intuitive UI.

That is all… for now.

I think my favourite quote is, “…which are likely to be used rather for official, serious presentations (such as business sites) than a colourful teenager’s homepage.”

Yahoo for nice free things!

Kerning

Ack, they are using tables! But it has good content – I am trying to learn more about type so I can become even snobbier about design.