Brick. Webfonts that look good

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Post by alfredxing » Sat, Mar 15, 2014, 8:34 PM UTC

Brick. Webfonts that look good
github.com

Re: Brick. Webfonts that look good

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Post by greytwo » Sat, Mar 15, 2014, 8:42 PM UTC

How does one incorporate this into a webpage?

Re: Brick. Webfonts that look good

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Post by alfredxing » Sat, Mar 15, 2014, 8:42 PM UTC

Brick is a free and open source webfont service that serves fonts in their original form for beautiful rendering and full feature sets (kerning, ligatures, etc.)

Site: http://brick.im

GitHub: https://github.com/alfredxing/brick

Usage: https://github.com/alfredxing/brick/wiki/Usage

Re: Brick. Webfonts that look good

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Post by alfredxing » Sat, Mar 15, 2014, 8:43 PM UTC

greytwo wrote: post #2

How does one incorporate this into a webpage?

Usage is at https://github.com/alfredxing/brick/wiki/Usage

Re: Brick. Webfonts that look good

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Post by jamiesonbecker » Sat, Mar 15, 2014, 9:26 PM UTC

Why do the demo pages have different styling (esp line-height, it looks like).. makes it harder to see differences in two different windows.

Re: Brick. Webfonts that look good

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Mar 15, 2014, 9:27 PM UTC

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Post by jejones3141 » Sat, Mar 15, 2014, 9:32 PM UTC

OK, the only difference is in the link to show the other sample and the use of Brick versus Google Fonts.

The ligature is nice. My eyes aren't good enough to notice kerning differences--but that may be because the HUGE difference between the two samples is the line spacing. Brick jams those lines together like sardines, and while Google Fonts goes at least somewhat overboard in the other direction, if I had to choose, that so-tight-it-squeaks line spacing makes Brick painful to read.

UPDATE: Whew, thanks! Much better. I'll have to take a look and see what changed.

Re: Brick. Webfonts that look good

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Post by alfredxing » Sat, Mar 15, 2014, 9:33 PM UTC

jamiesonbecker wrote: post #5

Why do the demo pages have different styling (esp line-height, it looks like).. makes it harder to see differences in two different windows.

Sorry about that! It's probably a difference between the fonts served by Brick and those by Google.

Just pushed the commit, should be fixed now.

Re: Brick. Webfonts that look good

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Post by huhtenberg » Sat, Mar 15, 2014, 9:35 PM UTC

Alfred, I applaud the effort, but take a look at the baseline of /w/ and the stem of /a/ - http://imgur.com/O3QoCO8

Top is Brick, bottom is GF, both rendered in Firefox 27 on Windows.

Re: Brick. Webfonts that look good

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Post by alfredxing » Sat, Mar 15, 2014, 9:39 PM UTC

huhtenberg wrote: post #9

Alfred, I applaud the effort, but take a look at the baseline of /w/ and the stem of /a/ - http://imgur.com/O3QoCO8 Top is Brick, bottom is GF, both rendered in Firefox 27 on Windows.

Thanks! Hmm, seems to be an issue. Renders fine in Chrome though, and there doesn't seem to be anything wrong in FontForge either.

I'll look into it for sure.