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Google is finally making it possible to set a default font, font size and other style option to be used with all documents. Currently, the document editor always defaults to Arial 11 since that's what Google Docs defines as "Normal Text."
You can change any of the style settings of course, font, color and so on... |
3 February 2012
05:00 GMT |
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Comic Sans has always gotten a bad wrap. It's been decried by Mac-toting font experts and enthusiasts the world over and movements for its complete banishment have sprung up. It's almost as hated as Internet Explorer 6 and every new Facebook feature.
But does it really deserve this type of punishment? At l... |
13 December 2011
10:23 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is gearing up for the release of a new software update for its high-end Nokia N9 smartphone that was launched only recently with the MeeGo OS on board, and plans on making some changes to the fonts on the mobile phone.
At the moment, Nokia N9 users the default font “Nokia P... |
19 November 2011
04:49 GMT |
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At their annual MAX conference, Kevin Lynch, Adobe's CTO announced the acquisition of Typekit, a true innovator in the world of web typography, and the most successful service in delivering web fonts to sites across the web.If now everybody looks and expects to see non-standard web fonts in live websites, this w... |
4 October 2011
03:19 GMT |
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Each PC host hundreds of fonts and the vast majority remain unseen and unused by most users. Ready to help us discover them all and see how they would look like on real or virtual paper, here comes FastFontPreview.Going through folders to seek out and glimpse at fonts manually is something nobody wishes to go through... |
1 June 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Blogger is rolling out support for web fonts for all its users. Anyone will now have the possibility to add a little flair and move beyond Arial and Times New Roman with a big selection of optional fonts for their blogs. There are now 77 new fonts to pick from, though they're only available if you're using ... |
21 January 2011
07:50 GMT |
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Canonical announced a few minutes ago in a press release that the Ubuntu project, with Google's help, released today the amazing Ubuntu Font Family to the world. The font is available to any web designer from the Google Font Directory. The Ubuntu Font Family was especially designed by Canonical for the Ubuntu 1... |
21 December 2010
08:46 GMT |
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Earlier this week Facebook introduced a new font size for the News Feed. The smaller font meant that more text could be packed in the same space, but a lot of people complained that the font is now too small for them to read. While the change may not be permanent and Facebook may tweak it or revert it, there are ways... |
6 November 2010
09:07 GMT |
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Canonical uploaded and replaced today the default font in the upcoming Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) operating system. A couple of weeks ago, we've announced that Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) has a beautiful new wallpaper, and yesterday we've announced the Release Candidate of Ubuntu 10.10. With toda... |
1 October 2010
09:53 GMT |
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The web typography party got a little bit bigger when Fonts.com released their free and commercial service for embedding non-standard fonts on websites.Beaten to the punch by Typekit and Google which started offering the same kind of service since September 2009, respectively May 2010, Fonts.com's Web Fonts has ... |
15 September 2010
03:15 GMT |
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Optimizing computer performance is a complex job that tackles many issues related to both hardware and software environments. Defragmenting your hard drive or cleaning the registry are some of the most important steps you have to take in order to improve your system’s performance and get the most out of your P... |
28 June 2010
13:05 GMT |
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The Symbian Foundation, together with Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc., a member of the foundation and one of the most renowned text imaging-solution providers, has recently announced the official launch of the first open source font available for the Symbian platform. Monotype Yuppy, also known as the MYuppy Chin... |
10 June 2010
09:43 GMT |
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Following the success of its previous releases for its educational blog network (Tuts+), Envato rolled out at the start of May 2010 another tutorial service. Mainly geared toward mobile development and the smartphone market, the new site called MobileTuts will feature articles, tutorials and round-ups about the mobil... |
22 May 2010
06:31 GMT |
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The World Wide Web Consortium's effort at regulating web space will be far from being final with the arrival of HTML5 and CSS3. While it will surely help make some sense from the multitude of standard variations, it will not put everyone at peace. W3C's most recent effort will be gearing toward standardizin... |
26 March 2010
11:32 GMT |
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Microsoft is providing users of its operating system, including of the latest version of the platform Windows 7, with a free font, in addition to the items shipping by default with the operating system. In this regard, end users running Windows 7, but also Windows Vista and Windows XP can grab the Ibero-American cult... |
8 February 2010
10:57 GMT |
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Microsoft has worked to improve the experience of Japanese users running Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 (including the SP2 releases) when it comes down to applications that leverage the Ribbon/Fluent graphical user interface. In this regard, the Redmond company has made available the Meiryo Font Collecti... |
18 November 2009
04:59 GMT |
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One aspect that always proved problematic for web developers is fonts. There's been little choice when it comes to styles and things haven't really moved forward in this space since the early days of the World Wide Web. Now browsers are finally starting to offer support for more advanced font options and s... |
11 November 2009
06:34 GMT |
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Fonts may not exactly be the most glamorous of web technologies, but they represent one of the most important and one that has stagnated for a very long period of time. Things are finally moving in this area as well and new formats and standards are beginning to pop up. Now, Mozilla is throwing its hat in the ring wi... |
21 October 2009
12:04 GMT |
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Three fonts are in the middle of one of the heftiest lawsuits against NBC this year. Font Bureau, a Boston-based graphics agency has filed a complaint against TV giant NBC after it wrongfully used the licenses purchased for three of its fonts (Antenna, Interstate, and Bureau Grotesque). Besides copyright infringement... |
13 October 2009
02:36 GMT |
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Amazon has updated its Kindle iPhone app, adding the ability to pinch to zoom in on images in Kindle books, a landscape mode with auto-rotation, the capability to lock the Kindle app’s screen orientation either in portrait or landscape, two new choices of text color, and the ability to tap on either side of th... |
21 May 2009
08:40 GMT |
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MyFonts has confirmed that its WhatTheFont iPhone application has been downloaded over 100,000 times since it was approved by Apple in the App Store three months ago. The iPhone version of WhatTheFont uses the phone’s built-in camera to snap the text in magazines, posters, billboards, etc., and instantly identi... |
15 May 2009
09:05 GMT |
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Apple has approved a new free app for iPhone and iPod touch, placing it in the “Reference” category of apps, as it can identify any font by snapping a picture of it. WhatTheFont is the work of MyFonts studio (owned by Bitstream, Inc.).The official description of WhatTheFont goes (from the iTunes App Store... |
19 February 2009
10:31 GMT |
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The complete Segoe font family has been leaked by Microsoft and is available for download, so that you should just go and grab your own copy. In case you did not know, one of the new features that Windows Vista offers is an overhauled official branding typeface. Segoe UI (pronounced "SEE-go") is the new Microsoft off... |
31 May 2007
06:32 GMT |
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Concomitantly with Windows Vista, Microsoft has shipped a new font family optimized for the operating system. Those of you that are already running Windows Vista might have already noticed that the fonts available are different from those you have been used in previous versions of Windows.This is because with Vista, ... |
20 March 2007
12:12 GMT |
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