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Hot new pixel font site: UltraFonts
Creating pixel fonts for hinting emulation might not be that useful anymore, but original “pixel” font design is still alive and kicking; now more conscious of Flash’s limitations (erratic filling and blurring) than ever. One of the newest exponents of such trend is UltraFonts, a slick new site by Truth In Design.
Joining the ranks in which Miniml.com and FontsForFlash belong, UltraFonts is a “pixel” font foundry, selling original fonts strongly suited for use in low-res devices, and specially customized for correct rendering in Flash. From what I see from their catalog they already have a respectable font collection, offering a wide variety of fonts as well as family variations. Nice.
Comments (3)
Although Flash does offer aliased fonts now, there are limitations: Specifically, it’s Flash Player 7 only for dynamic and input text fields and there can be, depending on the fonts, tremendous file-size savings in using a pixel font over a non-pixel font. All this to say that I basically agree that there’s still a place for pixel fonts 🙂
Posted by aral on 27/Jan/2004 at 8:53 am
Yep, I don’t mean “wooow bitmap fonts are dead!”, that title was just a prediction on the future not in the immediate present. After all, I’m not using Flash 7 myself…
Posted by zeh on 27/Jan/2004 at 1:13 pm
Here is another one: http://www.ductype.com/
(A friend of mine founded this) 🙂
Posted by sascha of H1DD3N.R350URC3 on 15/Jan/2005 at 6:05 am