In this week’s question time video I talk about the different image file formats available when designing websites and when you should use each one. Plus, I share my choice of font management application to help you arrange, control and sort your ever growing font collection.
This week’s questions
Bilal Khettab:
Which image format do you use most often (jpg, jpeg, png?)
Mike:
Quick question for you – apologies if it has been asked before – Fonts. What tools do you use to manage yours? And is there something out there that can preview and sort into groups?
Font Explorer X Free (v1.2.3) – I’m pretty sure this is a copy of the early free version of Font Explorer X before it was made ‘Pro’. It lacks some features of the new Pro version, which can be purchased at FontExplorerX.com, but it does the job as a basic font management tool.
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Hi Chris, thanks for the advice re file formats.
Here’s a question: where did you get that hoody from with the yellow stripe? You are a web design fashion icon.
It was almost like a formula1 race car driver giving tidbits about his performance. Thanks for the tips!
I used to use Font-Explorer until I found Fontcase for OSX. It has “collections” which does exactly what you need it to do. Check it out it’s damn good.
Cheers for the response Chris – helpful as always
While I can write CSS, HTML and know my way around PHP and Javascript, I am a much stronger front-end designer. I have worked with several outsourced programmers, and their design format of choice is Photoshop 90% of the time. While I know and love Photoshop very well, I find Illustrator is a stronger program for web designs that are mostly vector based for a number of reasons. However, programmers buck at the Illustrator file — even though it has layers, slicing and saving images for web the same as Photoshop.
Can you tell me why 90% of web designs are done in Photoshop and why programmers hate my Illustrator files?
Any good font management software for PC?
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