The making of the Octicons icon font
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You hear a lot about icon fonts. This post takes you into the nitty-gritty details of actually creating an icon font. Along the way you might also pick up a few tips on Photoshop 6.
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Icon Fonts are Awesome
What's better than telling a web designer how great icon fonts are? Showing them. CSS Tricks does a more than convincing job of showing why you should use icon fonts to display icons on your website, including the ability to resize, recolor, shadow, and transform them on the fly.
Free fonts from Lost Type Co-op
I love this. They don't just present you with a list of free fonts, they create a beautiful sample image using each typeface. I immediately wanted to download half a dozen of them.
Font sizing with rem
Jonathan Snook takes a look at the new(ish) CSS font unit, rem, and how it can be used to create text resizeable text with no inheritance issues. I'm going to try this on my next project.
The New Bulletproof @Font-Face Syntax | Fontspring
Get web fonts working in Safari 5.03, IE 6-9, Firefox 3.6-4, Chrome 8, iOS 3.2-4.2, Android 2.2-2.3, and Opera 11!