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@font-face Generator Expectations
We are all very excited to finally see browsers support some form of font embedding. Hurray you get to use any font you want now. While we were all celebrating that fact, the elephant in the room...
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My Six Year Old Font Squirrel
My son came home from school the other day having completed a complete specimen sheet for a new font. I had him draw some extra punctuation to make it a bit more usable. He's hoping to make some money...
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The Web 2.0 Show Interview
Last week I had a chat with Adam Stacoviak of the Web 2.0 Show about Font Squirrel and all things @font-face. If you are interested in hearing the guy behind the squirrel, check it out. Listen to the...
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The Big Web Show Interview
Font Squirrel’s own Ethan Dunham along with Typekit’s Jeff Veen discuss the current state of webfonts. This was the inaugural show produced by Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin. You can watch or listen...
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Font Squirrel Nominated for Best Web App by .net Magazine
The annual .net Awards has included Font Squirrel as a nominee for Best Web App of the year. We're honored to be in the voting for our site and the @font-face Generator tool. If you too find this...
View ArticleTroubleshooting Font-Face Problems
Having trouble getting your webfonts to load in your new website? Here are some tips to sort out what might be the problem. Fonts not showing in any browser This sounds like you need to work on the...
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The Font Squirrel API
Back in June 2010, we silently introduced an API that allows you to get at all our fonts that are @font-face ready. In all cases the data that is returned is in JSON format, which you can easily...
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The Official "How to Use the Generator" Post
What does the Generator do? The Generator offers web designers the ability to convert any font into easy to use @font-face webfonts. Some of you find it so easy and intuitive that it requires no...
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Big Generator Upgrade
We're pleased to announce some really great new features in the Font Squirrel Generator. New Menu Options First off, we've reconfigured the base menu: OptionDescription BASICRunning fonts through the...
View ArticleSVG Support In the Generator
In the past, we have occasionally allowed SVGs file types through the generator. However, they keep crashing the server. We know that this is a huge inconvenience for some of you out there with icon...
View ArticleType Designersand Web Fonts
Some type designers are criticized regularly for not allowing @font-face embedding in their licenses. We too have admittedly said some things we regret in hindsight, like telling one type designer he...
View ArticleFiltering... FREAKING FINALLY
The best part of my day is reading all the kind emails from our fans. You guys are the best and we don’t tell you enough how much we appreciate you. I also love hearing your suggestions because I want...
View ArticleMeet IM Creator
We want to take a minute to introduce to you IM Creator, a partner of ours for over 2 years. IM is an online, drag n’ drop website builder that allows anyone to effortlessly build a website that is...
View ArticleFont Filtering (continued)
A few months have passed since we released some cool filtering options for finding fonts on Font Squirrel. Since then we have been tweaking away… language filtering being the most notable change....
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Font Talk Forum
Today we are launching a new forum that replaces our old Squirrel Chatter forum that long ago died. Please share your licensing questions, Web Font Generator issues, Matcherator insights etc. We’d...
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