Category: Web Type Day

  • My Love/Hate Affair With Typekit

    My Love/Hate Affair With Typekit

    GEORGIA and Verdana, Lucida and (to a lesser extent) Arial and Times New Roman have served us well. For fifteen years, these cross-platform default fonts have been faithful stewards of our desire to read, write,…

  • FontShop Fonts on the Web

    FontShop Fonts on the Web

    FontShop announces that they are ready to deliver their font library as web type: [S]tarting today, Typekit users can pick from dozens of FontFonts, including FF Meta, FF Dax, and FF Netto. Plus, the Typekit…

  • More Web Fonts

    More Web Fonts

    Ellen Lupton and Jeffrey Zeldman talk about web fonts, part 2. That is all. This has been a belated part of Web Type Day.

  • Web Type: Lupton on Zeldman

    Web Type: Lupton on Zeldman

    Today in Print, Ellen Lupton interviews Jeffrey Zeldman (that’s me) on web typography, web standards, and more. Part one of a two-part interview. Ellen Lupton is curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum…

  • Get Real With Real Fonts

    Get Real With Real Fonts

    Web fonts are here. Now what? In Issue No. 296 of A List Apart for people who make websites, Nice Web Type’s Tim Brown debuts Web Font Specimen, a handy, free resource to see how…

  • Web Type Day is Coming

    Web Type Day is Coming

    Tomorrow, 17 November 2009, I’ll be speaking at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, delivering the keynote address at its Interlab ’09 conference. Tomorrow is also Web Type Day at zeldman.com. Please stand…