Ah, web typography. When I did my first website back in 1997, things were pretty much limited to a choice between Arial and Times New Roman. Then Microsoft introduced Verdana and a couple of others, and people found out they could get away with really small font sizes. Georgia was lovely but not for everyone, and Trebuchet… well it just replaced Arial in my mind. The fact remains, for the last twelve years designers had less than a dozen sure choices for web type, fonts readily available in both Windows PCs and Macs. Windows Vista introduced a few pretty good fonts (such as the Candara that used to be this blog’s first choice), and that had designers writing ridiculously large CSS font stacks in order to maintain a small amount of control. Some did go all the way and wrote scripts that replaced HTML text with Flash movies which had some font embedded, but that’s a pretty crude solution to a problem that should be easier to solve.

It took ten years but finally most browsers support font embedding. Internet Explorer is a nuisance, as always, because despite being the first browser to support embedding (since I first started making websites, in fact!), it does so through some peculiar font format which is incompatible with everything else. Anyway, I finally jumped right into the @font-face bandwagon. You should be reading this text in CartoGothic (Font Squirrel also has a pretty friendly tool to help with the CSS and the conversion to IE format); and the headlines should be set in Jos Buivenga’s Delicious. If you are using one of the latest browsers, that is. Enjoy!

Update: screw that, using CartoGothic brings too much of a lag on page load. So it’s back to Trebuchet. But I’m keeping the titles set in Delicious.

Quentin Tarantino himself curated an exhibition of alternative posters for Inglourious Basterds.

When I saw this I imagined Wes Anderson directing a horror film in which three brothers go on a journey to India… but somehow end up in the jungle (not in the desert like in that other movie) being chased by killer elephants. Perhaps it’s the Futura. I’ll print a t-shirt. (via Pedro Quintas)

Reminds me of this. (via Igor Pascoal)

Not long ago I wrote about my first computer, which my father got me for my seventh birthday. But I had never seen an advertisment for it before. (via Pedro Quintas)

Rodney Ascher’s The S From Hell. A docu-horror short film about… a corporate design Manifestation of Evil?

I really dig Xplanes’ Sunday Fantasy feature. This is a Goodyear advertisement published right after the end of World War II in Europe. Why are airships such a cliché in positive views of The Future? Perhaps because airships are quiet and gentle.

I beg to differ: In my opinion, if airships ever become a common feature of our skies, that only means we’ve really scorched our atmosphere for good.

Hm. Perhaps I can, actually.

I can’t explain my fascination over this image. But it stays with me. (via Pedro Quintas)

Jason Kottke has been doing a great job tracking 2000s Best Of lists. And to be honest, you could devote a whole blog to those. I’ll do some lists of my own in due time, but this one I did enjoy: Movie Posters of the Decade. (via Natalia on Facebook)