A List Apart’s most recent issue is about web type. There is a lot of chatter on this topic. Some of it has to do with the launch of Typekit, a web ser­vice that allows licensing of fonts for use on the web. In addi­tion to Typekit, ALA also men­tions Typotheque and Kernest. I’ve been using a few good free fonts from FontSquirrel for my web­sites along with my own font. Clearly, web fonts are going to explode in 2010. Along with mobile web­sites, this is clearly the next leap web designers have to take.

The arti­cles also had numerous links to online resources for web designers. I liked:

• Web Font Spec­imen a tool for testing the dis­play of fonts that are applied to a web page using @font-face
• Litmus a fee-based ser­vice for browser testing. This is a much more user-friendly and reli­able ver­sion of what Browser­shots does for free.
• 960.gs is a CSS resources for devel­oping a web­site using the very pop­ular 960px grid system. Grid sys­tems are a good idea in gen­eral. This is just one of many pos­sible systems.