typecards got a fancy ligature last night. A bit of a struggle to get it working, turns out Fontspring strips all their webfonts of the best parts to save on file size. Good to know in the future.
Edit: Still can't seem to get the ligatures working in FF or iOS. If anyone knows this one better than I do could you leave a comment?
Turns out the file was getting cached so I was seeing my local files while everyone else was seeing the ligatureless files. Isn't web dev fun! Ligatures should now be working on both Moz and Webkit browsers.
@Alex Pankratov Thanks Alex. I entirely agree, it's something that's bugged me quite a bit, but it's browser rendered and I didn't want to have to rely on Lettering.js or something of similar overhead to tweak it. I may just switch to an SVG that's been manually kerned.
I'll give the smallcaps idea a try. I can't remember if Brandon comes with smallcaps or not, but I might be able to use a reg/med weight combo to make that work.
4 Responses
Pro
James Wilson
typecards got a fancy ligature last night. A bit of a struggle to get it working, turns out Fontspring strips all their webfonts of the best parts to save on file size. Good to know in the future.
Edit: Still can't seem to get the ligatures working in FF or iOS. If anyone knows this one better than I do could you leave a comment?
11 months ago
Pro
James Wilson
Turns out the file was getting cached so I was seeing my local files while everyone else was seeing the ligatureless files. Isn't web dev fun! Ligatures should now be working on both Moz and Webkit browsers.
11 months ago
Pro
Alex Pankratov
I'd space t-y a bit, there's just too damn much whitespace between y and p that needs balancing out.
Also - smallcaps for the tagline perhaps?
7 months ago
Pro
James Wilson
@Alex Pankratov Thanks Alex. I entirely agree, it's something that's bugged me quite a bit, but it's browser rendered and I didn't want to have to rely on Lettering.js or something of similar overhead to tweak it. I may just switch to an SVG that's been manually kerned.
I'll give the smallcaps idea a try. I can't remember if Brandon comes with smallcaps or not, but I might be able to use a reg/med weight combo to make that work.
7 months ago