I just finished freshening up all the fonts in Kernest and confirming they started the new year off right – working in Safari, Chrome, Firefox, IE. If a font isn’t rendering as expected – either send me a message or tag it with the word ‘remedy’ and I’ll investigate.
Also, I’ve updated and reworked the ‘Find More Fonts…’ section. It’s now at the top of the page and breaks out fonts by 3 high-level categorizations: serif, sans serif, script – with a text field for all the others (including any tags you’ve added).
The new Nav also includes a menu item for (non-Latin) Character Sets – Cyrillic and Greek have the most right now – with more Chinese and Japanese are on the way.
As I mentioned over on Twitter (@kernest) I’m very happy with the updated ‘Similar Fonts’ listing present on the individual font pages – the fonts listed are now much more, um, well, similar.
Which is great when you’re looking for the perfect humanist sans serif to replace Helvetica and Arial.
Lastly, in addition to the recommended line-heights, I’m also adding recommended word-spacing, letter-spacing to the fonts in Kernest – you’ll see my suggestions in the big box at the top of the page and in the ‘Font CSS’ on your website’s page. Many of the fonts (even the Web Native ones) were designed for print and are better opened up a little bit for the web. As with all the CSS Kernest delivers – you’re welcome to change it to suit your design and taste.
Happy @font-face.