Web Typography

No, it's simply another word for stroke thickness.

Looks like it's Bistro script from the Suitcase Type Foundry: http://www.suitcasetype.com/inde...

A great resource for finding out the name of a font is www.whatthefont.com. Grab a screenshot and plug it in. This tool won't know every font, especially if it's a boutique font that isn't as well-known, but it's a great starting point.

CSS3 introduces a new unit of measurement called REM (root em) which clears up some of the complexity of nested inheritance when using EM's. Your document can never be truly responsive when using pixels, so therefore I would use REM over pixels and EM's to make my document as future proof as possible.

Read Jonathan Snook's article about the REM unit of measurement for more information.

http://snook.ca/archives/html_an...

Free: fontforge. And it's very good. Just nuts to get running on anything other than linux, and then not the best interface.

if you have 700$, I second the fontlab recommend.

The relatively new cool kid on the block is RoboFont, a solution built around the time-tested UFO font file format: http://www.robofont.com

Through its architecture, it's more of a centerpiece for an eco-system of software than an all-in-one package. Through Python programming everybody can write extensions, and it interfaces heavily with some other widely spread professional font creation software like Metrics Machine (for the spacing) or Superpolator (for creating a variety of weights and width of a given typeface family). In this sense it's really a pro-tool, and it lacks certain functions that you've grown accustomed to with Fontlab Studio.

While RoboFont is still new on the block, and has to fight with its own problems, its interface has won it accolades, especially compared to the pain type designers have to go through by using Fontlab Studio day in day out. There's even a Twitter account mocking the asinine workings of FLS: http://www.twitter.com/fontlaber...

Quite a few professional type designers have made a complete switch to RF while others work in both, keeping projects started in FLS there, but starting new ones in RF. It's important to note that FLS is even more unstable than normally in OS X Lion, so especially if you have already made that switch, RoboFont may be of interest to you.

The one I keep hearing about is Fontlab Studio: http://www.fontlab.com/font-edit...

Fontographer is also pretty good. It's essentially a lighter version of Fontlab studio. I use it to convert TTF and PS Type 1 fonts to OpenType PS.

While some may argue this is a subjective answer, I assert the most pleasing use of the <Caps lock> key is to be remapped to the <Control> key, to enhance the joy and convenience of command line administration and Vim editing. 'Tis a joy I did not even experience until a programmer friend of mine snuck the change on my computer.

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Great question.  But you forgot to mention the crucial issue, which is, as always, what is the purpose for which the font is being designed.  Function drives form.  In a font designed for presenting numeric or technical information (Calibri) the numbers are arguably a higher priority than they would be in a font designed for body type in children's books.

Personally I start with the lowercase letters, usually 'a', 'o', 'd', 'n', and build my alphabet from there. I combine words with these letters to see if they are visually appealing. If you have a 'd' or 'n', for example, it makes it fairly easy to create 'b' or 'm'. The rest will be, as you say, downhill.

You can check out these online resources also :

http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/02...

and

http://www.design-by-izo.com/201...

Nevis looks very similar but only has one weight. http://www.fontsquirrel.com/font...

Overwrite it with BACKSPACE, Backspace is too far away for ergonomic use. It will increase your typing speed like no other measure.

I am a huge fan of Alfred for Mac, found at www.alfredapp.com

I would recommend using the caps lock key to bring up Alfred.

Step 1: Go to the black apple in the top left, system preferences, keyboard, keyboard tab, and click on modifier keys.

Step 2: Change caps lock to control, option, or command, whichever you may use with Alfred.

Step 3: PROFIT.