If you need a script font at a very small size and you want it to be readable, Brush Script is the font to use. Unlike most script fonts, it has a thick and rather uniform width across the pseudo handwritten penstroke (which is what makes it so ugly in the first place). However used very sparingly and at small sizes, Brush Script can pull off what other handwriting fonts can’t and still look decent.
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Posts Tagged ‘typography’
Brush Script is Good at Very Small Sizes
Friday, July 29th, 2011Posted in Design · Tags: typography
Font Usage, Stats, Foundries, Programming Fonts and Links
Saturday, July 28th, 2007Posted in Computers · Tags: fonts, typography
Well, it’s time for me to clean out some bookmarks again.
- The most common fonts – very useful list of the most common fonts installed (includes Macs and Linux)
- A practical guide to web typography – based on the book The Elements of Typographic Style
- Web Typography Sucks
- The non-typographer’s guide to practical typeface selection
- Linux Font Equivalents to Popular Web Typefaces
- Review of Microsofts 6 New Fonts in Windows Vista
- A Comprehensive Look at the New Microsoft (Vista) Fonts
- What are the fonts in Vista – complete list of fonts that come with Microsoft Vista
- Microsoft Typography
- sIFR – use Flash and JavaScript to replace text with any font you want version 3 is out though
- Typogrify – a way to stylize your typography (for Django), it puts classes around certain elements to let you style them differently
- Typography for WordPress – someone built a plugin that is similar to Typogrify for Django
- Five simple steps to better typography
- Times New Roman – proof Times New Roman is not dead
- I Love Typography – great site dedicated to typography
Free fonts
- Larabie Fonts – this guy makes a lot of good fonts
- dafont – great font site
- The Ahem font – The font’s em square is an exact square
- misprinted type
- Semplice Pixelfonts – good for Flash
- codeman38 – unique fonts based on console games
- Freaky Fonts – fonts based on games, pixel based
- Dieter Steffmann – many old looking and ornate fonts
Programming Fonts
- Programming Fonts – nice list
- Monospace/Fixed Width Programmer’s Fonts
- Fonts for Programmers
- Bitstream Vera – Bitstream Vera Sans Mono is very popular, you’ve probably seen it used in Ruby on Rails screencasts
- Proggy Fonts – Monospaced Bitmap Programming Fonts
- Anonymous Font
- Dina Programming Font
- ProFont
- Console Fonts
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