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Keep this email. It was created specifically for your work in web design.
Unlike standard FontShop newsletters, we send Industry Focus updates to a select group of professionals in each field and they’re not yet found on our website or anywhere else. Another exclusive: get 15% off any purchase until Apr. 30, 2009 with the code WEB1.
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Welcome to the first edition of a special newsletter series tailored specifically to your line of work. In these periodic updates we’ll keep you abreast of FontFeed articles related to web and interactive design and handpick fonts ideal for typography that appears on-screen and online.
Each Industry Focus email is completely unique and speaks directly to a specific area of design. If you do other kinds of work or would like to receive other editions of the Industry Focus, visit your account settings and update your Professional Profile.
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In Use: Trade Gothic
A typographic animation describing the American cost of the Iraq War proves once more that the straight-sided Trade Gothic is a timeless classic that performs very well in varying contexts.
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Create Word Clouds with Wordle
A web app by IBM researcher Jonathan Feinberg automatically creates word cloud diagrams using the user’s text or text from any web page.
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In Use: Hermes
UK-based designer Andrew Townsend effectively employed the Font Bureau’s underused sans serif Hermes for his gallery of self-initiated art and design projects.
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Elements of Web Typography
Web designer Richard Rutter is bringing Robert Bringhurst’s bible of typography online with useful guidelines relevant to web design.
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The Logos of Web 2.0
Our comprehensive guide to web type trends is now updated with new typeface alternatives under each style (the Softies, the Futurists, and the Classics).
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Tondo  
In step with the modern, friendly World Wide Web, Tondo is a professionally produced round face. Always soft, never blobby. Consider it a gentler VAG with more sophistication.
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Slate
With its open, legible forms, two sets of widths, and range of weights, this undiscovered sans family is well suited for web graphics and other low-res, interactive environments.
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FF Netto
Daniel Utz’s typeface has the barest, most minimal forms possible. This clarity, along with a set of stylish and useful icons and arrows makes FF Netto ideal for web navigation and app design.
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Eclectic Web
The ultimate web dingbat tool with 80 icons for e-commerce, navigation, and interface design. Optimized to anti-alias beautifully down to 20 point. Use the pixel version for smaller sizes.
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Sysflash
Designed to be used in Flash™ for crisp aliased text, Sys is a compact, readable screen font. Also available in vector form for print.
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Jacobs Web
42 pixel fonts in multiple widths, sizes, and styles from Text to Soft, Square to Rounded. Bitmappy dingbats and arrows available too.
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Font used in title graphic: FF Netto& FF Unit.
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