Google Fonts VS og-image

Head over to a font repository like Google Fonts and choose a font you like. Let's say we pick "Briem Hand" from the search input. Download the font files by clicking Get Font, usually provided in a zip format.

Thanks!, hadn’t come across Mebinac.

I’m also a big fan of Igino Marini’s recreation of the Fell typefaces:

The Fell Types took their name from John Fell, a Bishop of Oxford in the seventeenth-century. Not only he created an unique collection of printing types but he started one of the most important adventures in the history of typography. — https://web.archive.org/web/20240128075552/https://iginomari...

The IM Fell fonts themselves seem to live on Google Fonts these days: https://fonts.google.com/?query=Igino+Marini

I use Doves Type for… everything. One day I started to find my monomaniacal obsession a bit funny and sort of to spite myself I set every font in Firefox to Doves Type. Serif, sans-serif, monospace, no other fonts allowed, as well as the UI font by tweaking the Firefox user profile iirc.

And it was just… very good. And I kept using it.

I use Doves Type for everything, and to be able to do that on my phone I use iFont: https://apps.apple.com/is/app/ifont-find-install-any-font/id...

Or yeah I do use IBM PC VGA 9x16, IBM BIOS 8x8, and Eagle Spirit PC CGA Board Alternate 3 a little :) From the Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack: https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/

I even munged together a combination of Doves Type Regular and IM Fell Great Primer Italic that matches the character scale and linespacing to both each other and to the IBM PC VGA 9x16 font at 1:1 size. FontLab did the trick!: https://fontforge.org/en-US/

(FontForge can autogenerate italics for any font. If you’re bored, I suggest loading up the classic VGA font and pressing the ITALICIZE button on ot. It’s… interesting!)

In general, on Windows I much prefer MacType’s fomt rendering: https://www.mactype.net … it’s kind of amazing that this kind of surgery is even possible.

Choose and download font When choosing a font for your application design, you need to consider the factors such as the font's readability, its contrast, how well it can scale on different devices, and whether it matches your application's brand and color scheme. After deciding the font, download its .tff files. One can get these files from Google Fonts. In this example, we will download 'Sedan SC' font.

I first checking out any good fonts on Google font that fits the theme of the website. I select the Nunito as I could feel the playful vibe behind it.

Visit Google Fonts and search for Lusitana to see what options are available.

Next I spruced up my form's visuals a bit by heading to Google Fonts and finding one that had camping vibes - eventually landing on Amatic SC. Then I had the wild idea of making the form look like a piece of paper, so that I could make the submit button fold the paper up into an envelope or paper airplane and fly off screen if it was submitted successfully (This was EXTREMELY high hopes and I didn't even get around to trying to start this animation in the time I allotted myself 😂). I started by trying to find a crumpled paper look on sites like Hero Patterns, but eventually found myself on this codepen:

BeerCSS supports Material Fonts by default, here is the list of all icons: https://fonts.google.com/

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Now here's the thing since these are part of the meta tags, and The image shown in the tags are ... well! images, making them dynamic is a bit tricky. generating images isn't a menial task that just every web server can do ... it's resource intensive, time-consuming and all the other nightmares. and making it part of your dynamic web app is another ball game altogether. So what's new? well, @vercel/og is, this library lets you build image content from HTML/React that too insanely fast, like really fast . and you can pair this with any edge network like AWS Lambda on the edge, Cloudflare workers, etc to make it even faster.

It’s not embedding. When you paste that image url a serverless function running a headless browser requests say a next app which loads up a page based on the params in the url. Then we take a snapshot and image data is sent back as response to you hence the image appears. You can check out this: with NextJS and puppeteer

The other day I was looking through a repo and stumbled across someone using Vercel’s open graph image generator (https://og-image.vercel.app/), something I had no idea existed. I was able to set it up and replace my own implementation of something similar on my blog in an evening. My implementation involved generating images at build time with Gatsby, why I ever thought that was a good idea is beyond me.

But what if the content of the page is not visual at all, and no photo really suits the contents of the page? And what if we have a lot of these pages, with dynamically generated content? Luckily we are not limited to photography, we can use text! The prime example of this is how GitHub generates previews for issue URLs: they generate an image containing enough info such that users know what they will click on. These images are generated on-demand, as storing an image for every GitHub pull request or issue would be unfeasable. Another example is Vercel, which even open sourced their Open Graph Image as a Service that they occasionally use on blog posts or announcements.

Hi, it is basically a embedded, better and easier (API-wise) version of https://github.com/vercel/og-image

Vercel has a really good simple generator if you don’t want to spend time on graphic design: https://og-image.vercel.app

After some research, I found out that Vercel made an app (https://og-image.vercel.app/) that was really good, but did not quite fit what I was looking for, so I largely cloned the idea (but with my own code).

Nice work. But I am using my custom fork of https://github.com/vercel/og-image.