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Category: Typography

Showcase of the Best Google Fonts

Treehouse ● February 1st, 2012 ● Typography, Web Fonts ● 3 comments

It’s no secret that I am in love with Google Fonts. In fact, I use Google Fonts frequently in Treehouse videos. The ongoing drawback to Google Fonts has been the smaller selection compared to other font services, but that’s rapidly …Continue reading →

Scrolling Made Fun

Treehouse ● January 25th, 2012 ● Code, CSS, CSS3, Design, HTML5, JavaScript, jQuery, Typography ● 2 comments

Just when you thought scrolling your web page was getting boring. Scrollorama has stepped the scroll game up with this remarkable jQuery Plugin. Scrollorama allows you to manipulate text when you scroll the page. You can do everything from Transitions …Continue reading →

Font Management Tips for Web Designers

Treehouse ● December 6th, 2011 ● Design, Typography, Web Fonts | Tagged design ● 15 comments

As a web designer, you deal with tons and tons of fonts every single day. Without organization and font management software, analyzing and choosing the perfect font for your website design is tedious and will seriously take a toll on …Continue reading →

Google Web Fonts v2 Released

Treehouse ● July 5th, 2011 ● Typography | Tagged Articles, Tips ● 8 comments

Google has released version 2 of Google Web Fonts. This new release includes a lot of great functionality for evaluating and choosing fonts for your web site. You can browse fonts using examples formatted as words, sentences, and paragraphs, to …Continue reading →

Identify web fonts with WhatFont

Treehouse ● June 27th, 2011 ● Typography | Tagged Articles ● 5 comments

The WhatFont tool is a great way to identify what web fonts are being used right on a page. When the bookmarklet is active, just click on any text to discover its full font stack! Go to chengyinliu.com/whatfont.html to install …Continue reading →

Quick Tips: Easy jQuery Documentation and Responsive Scalable Headlines

Treehouse ● June 10th, 2011 ● jQuery, Typography | Tagged Articles ● 5 comments

Scalable Headlines for your responsive layout by @allison_house If you want scalable headlines on your fluid or responsive layout, look no further than FitText. It’s a jQuery plugin that makes big type flexible, forcing it to fill the width of the …Continue reading →

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