The more fonts you have installed on your system the longer it will take the system to start up. That’s one of the reasons why some PC users like to keep the installed font count at the bare minimum on their system. That’s easier said than done considering that you may need to use some [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Internet Explorer and Firefox users have criticized the font rendering under recent versions of Windows in the past. Some Firefox users for instance began to notice a difference after the Firefox 4 installation or upgrade. Internet Explorer users after the Internet Explorer 9 installation. Add-ons, extensions and tweaks were discovered that resolved the issues on [...]

Categories: Browsing, Internet Explorer

Several Firefox 4 users, especially those on Windows, have noticed that some, and sometimes even all, fonts are blurry in the browser. Many users have identified the built-in hardware acceleration as the main culprit for blurry fonts, and noticed that the fonts render fine again if hardware acceleration is disabled. You need to do the [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

If you’ve started using Ubuntu 10.04 already, you are probably having a fairly good experience. What a lot of people might not know is just how deeply that good experience goes. An issue that has plagued Linux since inception is fonts. Whether it be the lack of “standard” fonts (and by standard I mean Microsoft) [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

I remember, back in the day, when dealing with fonts in Linux was a real problem. At best you were given the xfontsel application, which was an X11 way of displaying the fonts on your system – only in the old-school X11 method (think bitmappy). Fortunately modern Linux distributions have much better fonts and font [...]

Categories: Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

Selecting the right font and font characteristics can be quite a daunting task. The information are usually defined in a CSS file that needs to be edited multiple times until the right font selection has been made. Another problem that might occur is caching that might require the webmaster to delete the web browser cache [...]

Categories: Web Development

Any of you that do any graphic design or web development know how important it is to have tools at your disposal to handle just about any task that might come your way. And even if you don’t have graphic design skills you will, someday, have to create something quickly to use for a web [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

NexusFont is a portable font manager for the Windows operating system that was recently reviewed by Rarst on his blog and also added to Appnews, our latest software updates project. Font managers can be important for several reasons. They can give a quick overview of all installed fonts on a computer system usually including a [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Sometimes I find a free resource wich is just so much higher quality than most paid sources it’s astounding. I mean if someone can design 9 free fonts that look this good, how does his commercial work look like? Judging from the webpage and the fonts, this person truly loves typography, and the free fonts [...]

Categories: The Web, Tools