Plugins

Coda Plugins For WordPress

Those are not WordPress plugins, but Coda plugins for people who work with WordPress. Check it out if you develop websites with Coda and WordPress.

Themes

Clean response

As its name suggests, a free responsive WordPress theme. Downloadable for free on ThemeFurnace.

News

Redesigning the WordPress Post Editor

An interesting take on the WordPress editor design by Binary Moon.

BuddyPress 1.7.2 released

Not a major update, but it still good to upgrade if you are using BuddyPress, it will fix some security issues.

Tutorials & Snippets

Non-Destructive Customisation of WordPress Themes using a Child Theme

A great tutorial on WPlift to learn how to use child theme for better development.

Offer sharing options after the content

An overview of plugins that let you offer “share this” buttons after the content of your post.

MEGA Design bundle

A huge design bundle with tons of vectors, textures, backgrounds, icons,… and much more.

$49 instead of $1067 – Get it now!

Hiruko

A modern japanese typeface.

$9 instead of $300 – Get it now!

STREAMIFIED: Full Social Media Management

Manage your social media activity easily.

$11 instead of $24 – Get it now!

Mighty Mac Bundle

Get Audio Recorder, ClipBuddy, W3capture, Screen Capture and Screen Rulers very cheap.

$12 instead of $117 – Get it now!

If saving bandwidth and having fast loading pages is important for you, don’t worry too much, it doesn’t mean you have to give up on typography. There are a few fonts that you can use to make sure your website is looking right without using Arial or Times New Roman. In this post we take a look at some fonts that are already installed on your visitors computers most of the time.

Serif fonts

1. Baskerville

A classic serif font published by Bitstream. Baskerville is an elegant and stable serif font that will give your webpages a beautiful look.

Usage: Windows 60.3% – Mac 93.3%

Font stack example

font-family: Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Goudy Old Style", Garamond, "Times New Roman", serif;

2. Palatino

Palatino was superstar type designer Herman Zapf’s first very popular font, it was based on his own calligraphy.

Usage: Windows 99.3% – Mac 83.1%

Font stack example

font-family: Palatino, "Palatino LT STD", "Palatino Linotype", "Book Antiqua", Georgia, serif;

3. Bodoni MT

Widely used in the luxury industry, Bodoni MT or Didot are synonymous with elegance.

Usage Bodoni: Windows 55.8% – Mac 0%

Usage Didot: Windows 0% – Mac 93.5%

Font stack example

font-family: "Bodoni MT", Didot, "Didot LT STD", "Book Antiqua", Garamond, "Times New Roman", serif;

4. Georgia

Many designers already use Georgia on their website, a great option if you want a highly-readable font.

Usage: Windows 99.4% – Mac 97.5%

Font stack example

font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif;

Sans-serif fonts

5. Century Gothic

Century Gothic is a clean, rounded sans-serif font to give your site a modern look.

Usage: Windows 87.6% – Mac 53.2%

Font stack example

font-family: "Century Gothic", CenturyGothic, Geneva, AppleGothic, sans-serif;

6. Tahoma

Tahoma is a sans-serif font that was designed specifically for on-screen display, it is very legible at small sizes.

Usage: Windows 97.8% – Mac 91.7%

Font stack example

font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif;

7. Arial Narrow

Arial is one of the most despised fonts by designers, but its condensed version looks actually quite decent (unless you compare it to Helvetica Condensed, then it looks bad).

Usage: Windows 88.4% – Mac 94.8%

Font stack example

font-family: "Arial Narrow", Arial, "Helvetica Condensed", Helvetica, sans-serif;

 8. Trebuchet MS

Trebuchet is a humanist sans serif typeface designed for good screen readability by Vincent Connare, the guy who designed Comic Sans.

Usage: Windows 99.7% – Mac 97.1%

Font stack example

font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", sans-serif;

Monospaced fonts

9. Consolas

Consolas is a nice monospaced font, perfect for programming or sharing code on your website.

Usage: Windows 83% – Mac 34.8%

Font stack example

font-family: Consolas, monaco, monospace;

10. Lucida Sans Typewriter

Lucida Sans Typewriter is a monospaced sans serif typeface with subtle curves and a good display on screen.

Usage: Windows 74.8% – Mac 99.6%

Font stack example

font-family: "Lucida Sans Typewriter", "Lucida Console", Monaco, "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", monospace;

Blast is a branding and communication studio formed in London in 1996. They create original designs that have been awarded for their creativity.

Hossein Zare creates surreal worlds by taking his photos and photoshopping it into something awesome. Via Fubiz.

A series of almost 40 prints created to promote the University of Tama Art, commonly referred as Tamabi. Those ads were created by Kenjiro Sano, aka Mr Design. Via Spoon & Tamago.

Free font: Frozen

A nice bold sans-serif font brought to you by  Ricardo Veloso and downloadable for free on Typography Served.

Two.js

Two.js is a two-dimensional drawing api geared towards modern web browsers. It is renderer agnostic enabling the same api to draw in multiple contexts: svg, canvas, and webgl.

Gridwax

Vertical rythm made easy with this bookmarklet.

Free font: Muchacho

Muchacho is a western-style serif font with quirky legs.

Daniel Mackie creates stunning animal illustrations with a psychedelic style. He won multiple awards for his awesome work.

Miloslav Druckmüller, a Czech photographer from the Brno University of Technology, created this stunning image. The photographer chose a remote location to get more clarity, and shot over 40 pictures he assembled to achieve this wonderful effect. Via Colossal.

Robot on a t-shirt, want! Via Stacey Burr.

A vintage illustration taken from Harpel’s typograph. Via Flickr.

A lovely typographic print. Via Design Taxi.

The infinite ampersand. Via Creattica.

Ana Second Hand Bookstore Advertisement. Via Gutewerbung.net.

A typographic statement that looks quite wrong. Via Daily Dishonesty.

Danny Schiltz forest friends illustration. Via Designspiration.net.

Cool wall clock.

Self-promotion poster for WAAITT studio. Via WAAITT.