{"id":12336,"date":"2007-05-03T15:11:15","date_gmt":"2007-05-03T15:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/05\/type-bits-what-fonts-come-with-cs3-why-web-type-sucks-more.html"},"modified":"2007-05-03T15:11:15","modified_gmt":"2007-05-03T15:11:15","slug":"type_bits_what_fonts_come_with_cs3_why_web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/03\/type_bits_what_fonts_come_with_cs3_why_web\/","title":{"rendered":"Type bits: What fonts come with CS3; Why Web type sucks; more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time for another round up of interesting typographical bits: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Creative Suite 3 ships with quite a few fonts.&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/typblography\/2007\/04\/cs3_bundled_fon.html\">Thomas Phinney lists &#8217;em here<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>The type designers at <a href=\"http:\/\/vier5.de\/\">Vier5<\/a> are adamant that &quot;you cannot work with modern pictures and at the same time use the typefaces of the last 50 years. The time for these typefaces is gone,&quot; and that only their new designs will suffice. The commentariat at Design Observer promptly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designobserver.com\/archives\/023759.html#1\">takes &#8217;em to the woodshed<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>I came across a short &amp; interesting  video on <a href=\"http:\/\/elsa.photo.net\/video\/firefly-small.mov\">letterpress printing<\/a>&#8211;worth a look despite the terribly mannered speaking style. [<a href=\"http:\/\/drawn.ca\/2007\/04\/01\/web-typography-sucks\/\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>A panel discussion at SXSW is captured in this podcast  on why &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/audio.sxsw.com\/podcast\/interactive\/panel\/2007\/SXSW07.INT.20070312.WebTypographySucks.mp3\">Web typography sucks<\/a>&quot; [<a href=\"http:\/\/drawn.ca\/2007\/04\/01\/web-typography-sucks\/\">Via<\/a>]&#160;. [Update: the presentation slides are <a href=\"http:\/\/webtypography.net\/sxsw2007\/\">here<\/a> (thanks, Thomas).]<\/li>\n<li>Hoping to counter the suckage, CSS Zen Garden presents <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativepro.com\/story\/feature\/22929.html?cprose=daily\">Tips for Timeless Type<\/a>&#160;.  It&#8217;s funny: we&#8217;ve come so far from when I started on the Web (<em>tsk tsk<\/em>ing at print designers who asked me to change the leading of body copy), and yet I still can&#8217;t get the point sizes on this blog to look consistent in Firefox vs. Safari &amp; IE. <\/li>\n<li>CreativePro features a piece about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativepro.com\/story\/feature\/25433.html?cprose=daily\">opening up to OpenType<\/a>&#8211;leveraging the power of this very rich format.&#160; Scroll to the bottom for a quick visual demo of the power of alternate characters in punching up a type treatment&#8211;something I put to good (hopefully not gratuitous) use on the programs for our wedding.<\/li>\n<li>Ever wonder what comic book onomatopoeia would look like in Arabic?&#160;  (Who hasn&#8217;t, I know.)  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ep.tc\/aramco\/05.html\">Wonder no more<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/05\/02\/comic_books_translat.html\">Via<\/a>] \n<\/li>\n<li>The edict not to &quot;risk sounding ridiculous&quot; in various languages is illustrated through  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frederiksamuel.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/skill-language-school.html\">word balloons<\/a>.&#160; Hopefully when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stern.de\/computer-technik\/computer\/%3AAdobe-Betatests-Die-Kraft-Kommune\/587632.html\">me talk  German one day<\/a>, I sounded a bit better than this. [Via Dirk Meyer] <\/li>\n<li>Think setting type on a computer can be a drag?  Your ancestors faced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativepro.com\/story\/feature\/19578.html?cprose=daily\">tuberculosis &amp; lead poisoning<\/a>, not to mention death by Grape-Nuts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time for another round up of interesting typographical bits: Creative Suite 3 ships with quite a few fonts.&#160; Thomas Phinney lists &#8217;em here. The type designers at Vier5 are adamant that &quot;you cannot work with modern pictures and at the same time use the typefaces of the last 50 years. 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