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!

There will be another panel discussion about web fonts, this time at the 2009 ATypI conference, Mexico City on 26-30 October.

Type design legend John Berry will chair the panel about font embedding: “It’s all about getting new fonts onto a web page, so the content doesn’t all end up in default Times or Arial. After a wide-ranging but inconclusive panel on web fonts at TypeCon in July, this time around some of the browser makers will be represented — and the focus will widen to include *how* fonts are used on the web. ”

You can listen to the TypeCon panel here. Its provides a good overview of the debate so far.

Too lengthy to comment on, no time to do so….so here is a bunch of links that capture the main arguments.

• Web fons, where are we? article on ILT blog.
• Nice Web Type is another typography blog, but dedicated to web typography issues and fonts.
• Podcast episode about Web Fonts on Read Between The Leading.
• Mark Wubben’s talk about siFR3 at Geek Meet in Stockholm.
• Typekit will be a web licensing font foundry. At the moment its a blog about web fonts.
• The Potential of Web Typography by Ian Lynam & Craig Mod.
• Article about web font embedding by John Allsopp.