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The League of Moveable Type features new fonts
The project added some new interesting fonts. I’m particularly fond of this condensed sans-serif typeface named League Gothic.
The project added some new interesting fonts. I’m particularly fond of this condensed sans-serif typeface named League Gothic.
As designers, we are always looking for more carefully crafted, beautiful and functional typefaces. There are some very interesting fonts in this round-up, like Deibi, by spanish Wete or the stupendous slab serif Adelle from Type Together and a variety of typefaces, some suitable for display and some suitable for composing long text.
The ILC-PDFBox plugin for WordPress will allow you to display a PDF document that you embed in the post writing area using Thickbox, the jQuery modal window. In this way you don’t have to open a separate page to display it, you can speed up loading times by loading it only if it’s going to be read and you don’t waste excessive bandwidth.
Bajale al Magenta (something like Add Less Magenta) is a musical group from my city composed by graphic designers that released their first album for free. Sounds good!
Haley Fiege, the canadian typographer and owner of Kingdom of Awesome released a free typeface at MyFonts. The font Patagonia is a sans-serif face based on 19th century aesthetics. Get Patagonia at MyFonts.
As they defined it, Public Gothic is an industrial condensed vintage typeface, the new face from A2591. Beta release is free for commercial works.
Antonio Luppetti, who blogs about CSS, HTML, AJAX, jQuery and other topics about web development, released a while ago this book titledThe Woork Handbook. It’s a collection of tutorials published at Woork that despite the fact that they have one year old they will be very interesting for the web developer newbie and even an intermediate developer, as it introduces some practical ways to get things done.

FontShop released today two beautiful fonts for free, the exquisite Sovereign (above, its Regular weight) and the sleek Dagney (its Thin weight). Read more