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Clagnut Go to the source

The MyFonts January 2009 newsletter reports on their Top 10 Fonts of 2008. The list highlights the year’s most successful fonts in each genre, based on sales numbers. Sitting pretty in that list (based on sales numbers, remember) is a free font family: Museo and Museo Sans , which were the year’s top geometric display fonts. Designer Jos Buivenga offers three out of the five Museo weights for free, along with 2 out of the 10 Museo Sans fonts, but on the strength of the paid weights alone, the Museo family still made it to the top of the list. Jos specifically allows use of the free weights for @font-face linking, but it’s clear this was no deterrent to people forking out hard cash for the full family. … Read the rest here

Snook Go to the source

After a wild couple days, it’s live. Well, live-ish. Blick Blocky Retro, the ninth iteration of this veritable site, has made its debut. Why? I’ve been working on this redesign for close to a year now. … Read the rest here

Snook Go to the source

With Ajax applications, there’s often a need to see what information is being transported back and forth. Am I sending what I’m supposed to? Am I getting back the right response? Most JavaScript developers have Firebug locked and loaded but its requirement to post data back to the server just to inspect the request isn’t always a very pracitical solution. The information you get back may not always be the complete picture. Alternative otions include firefox addons Live HTTP Headers and HttpFox . … Read the rest here

Hicksdesign Go to the source

Back in June, I talked about Helvetireader , a new approach I was taking to skinning Google Reader. Instead of making it look like an OS X app, this time I was going for minimal, inspired partly by Times , a newspaper style RSS reader, and the postcards that came with the (Deluxe!) Helvetica Film DVD . As there’s always so many other things to do, it’s only now that I’m announcing it going live. First, here’s a small screenie: I’ve removed a lot of stuff from the interface that I never use, so it’s not going to suit everyone. If it does suit you – great, if it ‘doesn’t quite’, you can take the CSS and fiddle and personalise to your hearts content! I’m trying a different delivery system this time around. … Read the rest here

Adactio Go to the source

There’s been some really interesting stuff coming out of Mozilla Labs lately. The latest toy is a plugin called Geode . It’s based on the W3C editor’s draft geolocation API . In a nutshell, it allows you to provide your location to a website at the click of a button. You can try it for yourself on Pownce . Now, I have no idea where it’s getting the location data from—probably a mixture of WiFi and network information a la Plazes —but I don’t need to know or care. … Read the rest here