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Adobe Muse Beta: First Impressions

Adobe have just released the beta for a product (code named) Muse. It’s aim is to let graphic designers design HTML sites using the kind of drag and drop interface you get in InDesign or Quark.

The plan is to make it really easy for a designer to pick up Muse and make a site without knowing any HTML, CSS or javaScript. This sort of things been tried before… How does the beta fare?

 

Google Web Fonts

Web typography so far has been a stunted and unlovely thing. Conflicting standards and licensing issues have prevented designers from deploying their typographic chops. For years now choices have been limited to the familiar faces of the Microsoft Core Fonts collection.

CSS has supported linking to fonts for years but cross-browser support for font formats has been patchy and unpredictable – however the days of Font Frustration are already behind us with superb initiatives like Typekit and, focus of this post, Google Web Fonts…

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