True to Smashing form, they have collated a bunch of useful information about the technical aspects of web typography, everything from glyphs to grids. Its a very useful reference. Note of caution however, there are some errors in the article in relation to type measurement on the web, mainly the part about em values. Em is a relative measurement on the web and is a handy work around W3C standards for designers who want to control type size but want to avoid fixed size settings in pixels.

Earlier this month Smashing also did another piece on web typography which focuses on the @font-face rule and the various aspects around embedding fonts on the web.

Another useful reference is Khoi Vinh’s book published just before Christmas on grid principles for web design.

There are more and more resources on web typography emerging every day, so here is a list of some of the most useful web font sources with @font-face licenses:

1. FontSpring – Open type fonts for your desktop and webfonts for your sites.
2. Fontdeck – Fontdeck is the professional webfonts solution. You only pay for the fonts you need, when you need them.
3. FontShop Webfonts – Web font service on selection of their fonts deemed suitable for web use. Includes handly little tool Fontfonter to see how the fonts look in a website.
4. Typekit – One of the first web font services, also has quite a useful blog.
5. Typotheque – Web Font Service enables you to use custom fonts in your website using the @font-face rule in CSS.
6. Fonts.com from Monotype – Web font service using Monotype fonts.
7. Extensis WebInk – High-quality fonts for your websites. Easily use professional type from trusted foundries in the sites you design.

Nice Web Type – One place for web typography, using our collective knowledge for the betterment of typographic style and practice. A web type blog written by by Tim Brown.

Also worth mentioning some of this year’s Atypi workshops which is being held in Dublin which focus on web typography and web fonts.

This is another group that have sprung up fighting the cause to make more fonts freely available for web design using @font-face. It is still embryonic but there are some nice fonts available (Raleway by Matt Mc Inerney for example) – and its hard to criticise anything that is free. The fonts can be used subject to the SIL Open Font License.  It will be interesting to see how it grows over the coming months. Also, check out the Open Font Library (OFL), but the new site is quite buggy.

Well designed grids form the backbone of a site design and layout.  Here’s a couple of interesting links to two long time proponents of grids:

Khoi Vinh has written about the process of creating a WordPress theme called Basic Maths.

The Myths and Misconceptions About Grid Systems from AisleOne here.

These days, I just don’t have much time to blog!