Category: webfonts
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The Next Generation of Web Layouts
Who will design the next generation of readable, writerly web layouts? Layouts for sites that are mostly writing. Designed by people who love writing. Where text can be engaging even if it isn’t offset by…
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The Web We Lost: Luke Dorny Redesign
Like 90s hip-hop, The Web We Lost™ retains a near-mystical hold on the hearts and minds of those who were lucky enough to be part of it. Luke Dorny’s recent, lovingly hand-carved redesign of his…
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A Helvetica For Readers
A Helvetica For Readers: behind the site design for Robert Slimbach’s new Acumin type family—fresh at zeldman.com.
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@font-face and Web Performance
Unfortunately, the main issue with @font-face now is what many wanted to avoid years ago: the FOIT, or Flash of Invisible Text.
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Typelab interview with Jeffrey Zeldman | Typetester
The interview was conducted by Nick Sherman at TypeLab on June 13, 2015. The website is part of Typographics TypeLab and is a demonstration of what can be done with web typography within 24 hours. Source:…
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Webfonts with Stylistic Sets from Hoefler & Co.
Now there’s a way to transform your web typography at the touch of a button: introducing Stylistic Sets for webfonts at Cloud.typography. www.typography.com/blog/webfonts-with-stylistic-sets/
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Responsive Typography
“NOT EVERYTHING always works in your favor when you design for the screen. Interaction design is engineering: it’s not about finding the perfect design, it’s finding the best compromise.” Responsive Typography: The Basics | Information…
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Web Design Manifesto 2012
THANK YOU for the screen shot. I was actually already aware that the type on my site is big. I designed it that way. And while I’m grateful for your kind desire to help me,…
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Big Web Show No. 65 | Tim Brown of Typekit and Nice Web Type
IN EPISODE NO. 65 of The Big Web Show (“everything web that matters”), I interview Tim Brown of Typekit and Nice Web Type on where we are with web fonts, real web type in real…
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Web type links from an interview with Typekit and Nice Web Type’s Tim Brown
MY BIG WEB SHOW INTERVIEW with Tim Brown of Typekit and Nice Web Type will be posted tomorrow. Meanwhile, here are some of the links our rapid-fire idea exchanged touched upon: FacitWeb on Typekit: https://typekit.com/fonts/facitweb…
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A Better Franklin
I’VE TWEAKED the layout here with ITC Franklin Condensed from Webtype. It’s funny. My daughter always asks what’s my favorite color, and I can never answer, ’cause I love them all. With color, it depends…
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The Web Comes of Age – DIBI Keynote Address by Jeffrey Zeldman
Jeffrey Zeldman – The Medium Comes of Age from Codeworks Ltd on Vimeo.
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An Event Apart Atlanta 2011
YOU FIND ME ENSCONCED in the fabulous Buckhead, Atlanta Intercontinental Hotel, preparing to unleash An Event Apart Atlanta 2011, three days of design, code, and content strategy for people who make websites. Eric Meyer and…
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HTML5, CSS3, UX, Design: Links from An Event Apart Boston 2011
Meeting of the Minds: Ethan Marcotte and AEA attendee discuss the wonders of CSS3. Photo by the incomparable Jim Heid. THE SHOW IS OVER, but the memories, write-ups, demos, and links remain. Enjoy! An Event…
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The Big Web Show No. 46: Get Your Web Type on with FontDeck co-founder Richard Rutter
RICHARD RUTTER, designer, technologist, information architect, writer, and co-founder of Fontdeck and Clearleft, joins Dan Benjamin and me to discuss the technical, aesthetic, and business aspects of putting real type on the web in Big…