For almost 15 years, Web designers have had a list of 10 "Core Web fonts" to choose from. Many ask, "Why can’t I just download a font file from my Web server the same way I can an image?" Well, actually, you can. The verbiage for font linking is a little different than images, but the syntax for Webfont linking has been around for over 10 years as a part of the CSS standard. Web typography expert Jason Cranford Teague shows you how to apply the principles of fluid typography, to choose, find and use Webfonts and create your unique typographic voice. Come and find out why 2010 is going to be the year of Web typography.
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CSS and Fonts: Fluid Web Typography
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The Big Web Show 1: Web Fonts
Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin grill Ethan Dunham of Fontspring and Font Squirrel and Jeffrey Veen of Typekit (and other sites, too numerous to name) about one of your favorite subjects, “real fonts on your website” in this, our inaugural episode.
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The Art and Science of Setting Type
Tagged with typography type
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Read Between The Leading — Elliot Jay Stocks
On this episode we talk with Elliot Jay Stocks. We discuss his web work, his book, and his upcoming periodical “8 Faces,” as well as a few other things.
Tagged with typography design book:author=elliott jay stocks
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Get Stoked on Web Typography by Samantha Warren
Typography can make or break a design, but there are big differences between what makes jaw-dropping type offline from what makes great type online? In this presentation, Samantha will evaluate interesting offline lettering and discuss how you can translate those principles and leverage CSS3, @font-face, and new font-as-service web apps to create engaging online typographic experiences.
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Typographic Design with Mark Boulton
This week, Matt Magain (@mattymcg) catches up with Mark Boulton at Web Directions South 2009 to discuss web design, typography, and why they aren’t the separate things they may appear to be.
http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/11/09/podcast-35-typographic-design-mark-boulton/
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Typography’s not on the Web, it IS the Web
Mark Boulton at The Future of Web Design in London.
Tagged with typography type web design book:author=mark boulton
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Please Explain: Typography
Our latest Please Explain is all about typefaces and typography. Typeface designer Jonathan Hoefler, type designer and president of Hoefler & Frere-Jones and Steven Heller, co-chair of the MFA Designer as Author program at the School of Visual Arts and author of the VISUALS column for the New York Times Book Review, will explain how typefaces are created and why typography is important to communication and design.
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2009/09/11/segments/140481
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Jason Santa Maria on Read Between The Leading
This week on the show we were joined by web and graphic designer Jason Santa Maria. We got a chance to talk to Jason about his work at Happy Cog, his personal work, projects like the Wordpress admin, the differences in designing for print and web, and we got to ask him some listener questions.
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Michael Bierut on Typeradio 2/2
Michael Bierut talks about words, and why design can’t fix bad content. Writing well is a challenge. Initiating Design Observer, his motivation and what he found the hardest. And finally the most important lesson he has learned.
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