Tag Archives: fonts

Font tips for Unix

July 18, 2005 – 12:13 pm

While looking for information on how to get Verdana running on a Unix box (don’t ask), I instead ran across a couple good sites with tips for font selection that will look good on most out-of-the-box Unix distros. Safe web fonts is a decent no-nonsense list of which fonts are safest to use across different [...]

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Identifying fonts

September 9, 2004 – 6:23 pm

Identifont is a stunningly effective tool for identifying a typeface from a sample. It asks you a series of questions to narrow down exactly what typeface you’re looking at, and so far, it’s been amazing in its accuracy. The site contains a vast database of fonts from over two hundred type foundries, both well-known and [...]

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