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Tim Brown

Tim Brown writes Nice Web Type and designs examples of typesetting with CSS. He also makes websites for Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York and writes about it with his coworkers. Follow: @nicewebtype @vassarwebdesign

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Real Web Type in Real Web Context

Issue 296November 17, 2009

Web fonts are here. Now that browsers support real fonts in web pages and we can license complete typefaces for such use, it's time to think pragmatically about how to use real fonts in our web projects. Above all, we need to know how our type renders in screens, in web browsers. To that end, Tim Brown has created Web Font Specimen, a handy, free resource web designers and type designers can use to see how typefaces will look on the web.