Comments on: Sites we like: Pentagram, New Adventures in Web Design, and Mom, this is how Twitter works https://blog.typekit.com/2011/01/07/sites-we-like-pentagram-new-adventures-in-web-design-and-mom-this-is-how-twitter-works/ News about Typekit Tue, 11 Jan 2011 01:26:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 By: Slide Buddy https://blog.typekit.com/2011/01/07/sites-we-like-pentagram-new-adventures-in-web-design-and-mom-this-is-how-twitter-works/#comment-2142 Tue, 11 Jan 2011 01:26:13 +0000 http://blog.typekit.com/?p=2817#comment-2142 Is there a site that shows parents how to text as well?teehee. I’ve been reading some rather hilarious excerpts from tumblr that re-posts texts from parents, and they are entertaining. Getting back to the twitter tutorial site, I’m kind of glad my dad doesn’t do anything Internet-related, it would be all sorts of awkward if he replies to my random rants and raves on Twitter.

]]> By: k.l. https://blog.typekit.com/2011/01/07/sites-we-like-pentagram-new-adventures-in-web-design-and-mom-this-is-how-twitter-works/#comment-2141 Sat, 08 Jan 2011 16:43:23 +0000 http://blog.typekit.com/?p=2817#comment-2141 In reply to Dragos.

It is! (Looking at browser statistics, people seem to be pretty up-to-date when it comes to FireFox, Chrome, Opera and are using the current or at least last version. So I am optimistic.)

]]> By: Dragos https://blog.typekit.com/2011/01/07/sites-we-like-pentagram-new-adventures-in-web-design-and-mom-this-is-how-twitter-works/#comment-2140 Fri, 07 Jan 2011 23:06:27 +0000 http://blog.typekit.com/?p=2817#comment-2140 @ k.l.

Thx for the article, I thought is not yet avaliable but I just installed IE9 on my testing PC and FF Tisa Web Pro and Dagny Web Pro are looking fantastic.

The questions are: what took them so long? and how long will take the people to upgrade to IE9 and Firefox 4 since some of them are still using IE6?

Anyway, the future of web typography is bright 😀

]]> By: Dragos https://blog.typekit.com/2011/01/07/sites-we-like-pentagram-new-adventures-in-web-design-and-mom-this-is-how-twitter-works/#comment-2139 Fri, 07 Jan 2011 22:54:43 +0000 http://blog.typekit.com/?p=2817#comment-2139 In reply to erik spiekermann.

By classy I meant with a little more style. In other words Museo is both strong and powerful but also chic and stylish.

MetaSerif is just strong and powerful, but as you said, it does this job very well, especially on web, where it looks quite well on Windows.

So, no offense about this Erik, is just a personal opinion, I’m not even a typography specialist, just a designer passionate about type design.

PS In the meantime I found out another great serif font that looks even better than MetaSerif on web use:D, it’s FF Tisa Web Pro, I think is somewhere between Museo and MetaSerif as design but better than both on web rendering.

]]> By: k.l. https://blog.typekit.com/2011/01/07/sites-we-like-pentagram-new-adventures-in-web-design-and-mom-this-is-how-twitter-works/#comment-2138 Fri, 07 Jan 2011 22:39:30 +0000 http://blog.typekit.com/?p=2817#comment-2138 In reply to Dragos.

DirectWrite is the rewrite you are asking for, see this blog post. Yet browsers need to start using it. Currently they only do in beta versions.

]]> By: erik spiekermann https://blog.typekit.com/2011/01/07/sites-we-like-pentagram-new-adventures-in-web-design-and-mom-this-is-how-twitter-works/#comment-2137 Fri, 07 Jan 2011 21:42:41 +0000 http://blog.typekit.com/?p=2817#comment-2137 I know that my MetaSerif doesn’t look as “classy” as Museo, whatever that means. But since we designed it to be a workhorse, that could be a compliment. Classiness for the text on Jessica’s site means that the type is actually too thin. On my MacBook Pro screen I get more grey pixels than black ones.

]]> By: Jose Riveros https://blog.typekit.com/2011/01/07/sites-we-like-pentagram-new-adventures-in-web-design-and-mom-this-is-how-twitter-works/#comment-2136 Fri, 07 Jan 2011 20:14:31 +0000 http://blog.typekit.com/?p=2817#comment-2136

Until then I think FF Meta Serif is the next best font to use, not so classy as Museo but it looks a bit better on Windows.

Absolutely agree with Dragos here. The other nice thing about the FF Meta Web family is that it comes with small caps. Giving you more flexibility along with great rendering on Windows.

As an aside, and although I know designers dislike criticism, using full justification without hyphenation is still problematic on the web. Despite Jessica’s efforts, that paragraph on her site looks gappy.

Please consider hyphenator.js.

]]> By: Dragos https://blog.typekit.com/2011/01/07/sites-we-like-pentagram-new-adventures-in-web-design-and-mom-this-is-how-twitter-works/#comment-2135 Fri, 07 Jan 2011 19:47:50 +0000 http://blog.typekit.com/?p=2817#comment-2135 Can’t wait for it Tim!

Until then I think FF Meta Serif is the next best font to use, not so classy as Museo but it looks a bit better on Windows.

Is there something you can do by working on the fonts or Microsoft should rewrite from scratch that dirty little DirectWrite render?

]]> By: Tim Brown https://blog.typekit.com/2011/01/07/sites-we-like-pentagram-new-adventures-in-web-design-and-mom-this-is-how-twitter-works/#comment-2134 Fri, 07 Jan 2011 19:29:05 +0000 http://blog.typekit.com/?p=2817#comment-2134 In reply to Dragos.

Improvements to the Windows rendering of both Museo Slab and Museo are on the way, Dragos. We’re constantly working with our foundry partners to improve the fonts in Typekit’s library — and when we do have updates, all it takes to get them is a kit republish.

]]> By: Dragos https://blog.typekit.com/2011/01/07/sites-we-like-pentagram-new-adventures-in-web-design-and-mom-this-is-how-twitter-works/#comment-2133 Fri, 07 Jan 2011 18:52:52 +0000 http://blog.typekit.com/?p=2817#comment-2133 If we all had Macs or Apple products, Museo Slab would be a divine font, but unfortunately such world doesn’t exist, and Museo looks pretty messed up on Windows, no matter the browser.

Otherwise I love it!

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