Typography Enhancements for Drupal

Track: 
Theming
Experience: 
Beginner

This session will show themers how to include non-browser default fonts into their themes the drupal way. Emphasis on how to build your font libraries so that they can be easily maintained and added to all of your sites. This session will show how to find the best resources for free fonts and how to use commercial licensed fonts in your sites. CSS and coding strategies for how to make everything work correctly in all browsers along with fallback techniques will be discussed. The session will discuss methods for using your fonts with themes and modules UI settings. (ie skinr, fusion)

Intended audience: 

Themers, designers, site builders, site administrators.

Questions answered by this session
Question 1: 
Where can I get quality free fonts.
Question 2: 
How can I make fonts available for most browsers.
Question 3: 
What can I do for a fallback if the users browser does not support @font-face.
Question 4: 
What tools can I use to build a solid font library css file.
Question 5: 
How do I use commercially available fonts.
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Interesting and different

This could be an interesting discussion and might help the design of Drupal themes.

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