Jordan Isip

Jordan Isip is a User Experience Designer and startup junkie in Seattle, WA. This is a blog about Design, Development, Startups, and his attempts at Photography.

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Posts tagged Development

Joe's Nerd Party: Fancy HTML Emails with Rails 3.1 

joevandyk:

Getting HTML emails to look nice is a pain. Most email clients can’t use stylesheets, so you have to embed all the styles inline in the HTML. You also have to write a separate plain-text version of the email. And popular email clients (Outlook, Windows Live Mail, etc) render html email using some…

Joe Van Dyk in the Matrix.

Font Squirrel’s FontFace Generator

Spent ten minutes playing around with Font Squirrel’s FontFace Generator.  Uploaded The League of Moveable Type’s “Chunk” font and uploaded the results to Staticloud (free static site hosting): http://chunk-test.staticloud.com/.

Looks promising. Looking forward to implementing this on an actual app and testing to see how it works/degrades across browsers and devices.

Update:

@fixie I’ve used Font Squirrel’s FontFace Generator a whole bunch. It’s totally aces. In fact, I’ll reprocess other fonts with it to be sure

- @veganstraightedge

@fixie I’ve used it. Worked great!

- @jordanwlee

@fixie I use font squirrel all the time. Love it. Only way to embed fonts.

- @bluejack

Don’t give your customers what they ask for; give them what they want.
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