Posts Tagged ‘font’

Pretty Fonts and the Web

Monday, February 16th, 2009

People who have never had to make a website often wonder, why don’t people use nicer or unique fonts?

People who make the websites wish that they could!

I know that I’m bored with Verdana, Arial, and Times New Roman (or their Apple equivalents).  But, since we can’t guarantee that every computer will have every font, that’s pretty much what we are stuck using.

While we can’t change the font of the main content of our webpages, we do use some tricks to get nice headers.  In fact, we’ve just updated print-bingo.com’s decorative font headers.  We’ve had them for a couple years, but our (now) older software tool didn’t work with the latest Adobe Flash Player, version 10.  We’ve also changed the font that we use… we hope you like it.

For the geeks: We’re running SIFR 3 v.436.  The font file was built with a free online sIFR font generator, and we were formerly using sIFR 2.

When will we see the day where crazy steps aren’t needed for a nicely rendered web page?

Full Unicode Support at Print-Bingo.com

Friday, January 11th, 2008

After much work and delays, print-bingo.com now supports unicode. Back in the day, people only worried about the 26 letters and 10 numbers… not so anymore. Thanks to Chinese, Japanese, Russian, and many other languages, we have a lot more letters/glyphs/symbols to display.

We’re still working out some of the kinks, but once we do, we’ll generate some template designs to show off our new international language support.

So, try out the new and improved custom bingo card generator with international language support!