Category: webtype
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Web typography: a refresher and history
A refreshing dip into what we’ve learned about web typography over the past 20+ years.
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This Web of Ours, Revisited
Why did leading designers in 2000 look down their nose at the web? And are things any better today?
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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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@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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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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An Event Apart: On Web Typography
IN HIS TALK at An Event Apart in Atlanta, GA 2011, Jason Santa Maria outlined the current state of web fonts and how to approach typography online. Here’s my notes from his talk: LukeW | An…
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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…
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An Event Apart Seattle 2011
I’m enjoying An Event Apart Seattle 2011 and you’re not. Despair not, help is available: For real-time Twitter aggragation, watch afeedapart.com. Enjoy AEA Seattle photos in our Flickr group. Watch Luke Wroblewski dance. Watch An…
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2010: The Year in Web Standards
WHAT A YEAR 2010 has been. It was the year HTML5 and CSS3 broke wide; the year the iPad, iPhone, and Android led designers down the contradictory paths of proprietary application design and standards-based mobile…
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Cure for the Common Webfont, Part 2: Alternatives to Georgia
For nearly fifteen years, if you wanted to set a paragraph of web text in a serif typeface, the only truly readable option was Georgia. But now, in web type’s infancy, we’re starting to see…