Got a pile of rendering to do on the old computer so I wont be able to post until it’s done. Hopefully tomorrow but it’s a lot of frames. Hoping to try out some less.js things in the future. Maybe some popcorn.js experiments too because that library is very cool.
More cool typography nerdiness
Okay I’ll admit it, I’m a bit of a typography nerd. I think it has to do with making websites way back in the mid to late 90s when type was…well less than pretty. Back then you didnt have many options except to work with what you had. Websafe fonts and paragraphs that looked more mechanical than pretty often exposed the reality and limitations of the web. Reading and writing large amounts of text often we’re more impractical than not because it wasn’t easy on the eyes to have to read a bunch of ugly text and lessened the effect of the copy.
Thankfully, now we live in more civilized times and our typography has caught up. In previous posts I outlined how to use font-face and lettering.js to get the typography you want & deserve. Now, I’d love to point out another handy javascript to make kerning even easier: Kern.js.
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Download my theme!
I’ve uploaded a copy of my current WP Theme for you to download and deconstruct modify to your heart’s delight. It’s an HTML5 theme and it works pretty good. Ive included the graphic so if you want to know how I got the header sprite going.
I’m debating switching this theme over to HTML5 Boilerplate just to make it more robust and so I can work out some of the plugin bugs a bit easier.
Jailtown - wpTheme (40)Creating a custom post template in WordPress
Ever had a situation where you need to create a unique style for a single post for WordPress? It’s actually quite easy to do.
In order to create a unique post template for WordPress you need to create a template file. This is the easiest part of the entire process as you need to duplicate the single.php file from your theme folder and give it a unique name. In my case the unique template I needed to create was for the font-face posts so I named mine single-fontface.php. Pretty easy so far but the next challenge that I found was creating a unique header and footer to contain my javascript and extra stylesheet.
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CSS3 – The Font Face Attribute – Font-face & lettering.js
So I wanted to add a bit more control to my typography and I have combined the powers of @font-face and lettering.js. As a Designer/Developer, I like to avoid using technologies and techniques such as flash and javascript if possible but sometimes the javascript approach just does things that I can’t come close with in HTML/CSS. Lettering.js is one of those scripts.
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