November 23rd, 2009 § 2
This weekend I facilitated a session on web fonts technologies at Minnebar entitled Ban Helvetica – Or Why Ignoring Web Safe Fonts Makes Your Website Better
My mind map of all the web font technologies, @font-face service providers, and common licenses.
Here’s a photo of the entire diagram from Robyn Flach (thanks Robin!)
My talking about the mind map.
Chank talking about how he handles embedded font licensing.
Thanks to Jamie Thingelstad for the great shots.
November 20th, 2009 § 0
Ban Helvetica – Or Why Ignoring Web Safe Fonts Makes Your Website Better if you’ll be attending MinneBar this Saturday at Best Buy’s Corporate Headquarters, this is the 11am Design session.
November 19th, 2009 § 0
More interviews from all the Minnesota entrepreneurs that presented at the MIMA Summit over at MN Tech Startups.com
October 27th, 2009 § 0
Kernest was mentioned by the ever popular SmashingMagazine and is currently unavailable.
I’ll be back with a full report when I know more.
Thanks.
Update – I’m thankful for the team at Joyent providing a prompt server reboot, bringing everything back. Now to minimize this happening a again.
October 26th, 2009 § 0
Put your hands together and give 4th february and Greater Albion Typefounders a warm welcome to Kernest.
Sergiy Tkachenko is the designer behind the Ukraine-based 4th february – and its arsenal of big, bold, san serifs. Well, except for the Abia – it’s delicate and thin.
4th february fonts are priced at $15/year for commercial or non-commercial web use through here at Kernest and also available at MyFonts for your non-web uses.
Australia-based Greater Albion Typefounders has a mission similar to Kernest:
Each of the dozen Greater Albion fonts are $9/year for commercial or non-commercial web use and will provide a very distinctive, early 20th Century look to your work. For non-web use, Greater Albion fonts are also available at MyFonts.
October 20th, 2009 § 0
October 17th, 2009 § 0
Thanks for the great write-up. And yes, a redesign of the font-selection interface is in the works.
October 8th, 2009 § 0
Yesterday, Firefox announced WOFF (Web Open Font Format) support will be included in the next release – Firefox 3.6.
WOFF is a compressed font format meaning a better @font-face experience in Firfox through faster font transfers and shorter FOUT times.
Last night, I added WOFF support to Kernest. Now if you’re browsing with one the Firefox Nightly Builds on site using fonts from Kernest – you’ll receive a WOFF instead of an TTF or OTF.
September 23rd, 2009 § 3
Google just released Chrome Frame a plug-in for Internet Explorer that makes IE act like Google’s Chrome browser.
Something of a peanut-butter-in-my-chocolate value proposition.
Considering Internet Explorer’s historic support for @font-face and that Google hasn’t formally turned @font-face support on in Chrome, I wondered if fonts delivered by Kernest would render as expected.
Yes. Just as expected.
Internet Explorer still requests and renders the EOT fonts like it has for decades.
Chocolately peanut butter, yum.
Nope. I was wrong. Chrome Frame breaks Internet Exploreres @font-face support.
Oh the irony of a browser promising better web technology support removing @font-face support.
So, What caused the false positive?
Chrome Frame doesn’t automatically activate itself upon installation (not what I expected). ‘Enabled’ isn’t ‘activated’. Big thanks to Paul Irish for pointing this out.
How to test for yourself load this URL in Chrome Frame
cf:http://kernest.com
The ‘cf:’ forces rendering in Chrome’s Webkit engine.
Richard – on the question of IE-Tab in Firefox: Yes, the IE engine calls EOT files and renders the font. Though, I’m happy to be proven wrong.
