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...
View ArticleQuestions, Please: Jeffrey Zeldman’s Awesome Internet Design Panel today at...
HEY, YOU WITH THE STARS in your eyes. Yes, you, the all too necessary SXSW Interactive attendee. Got questions about the present and future of web design and publishing for me or the illustrious...
View ArticleThe Big Web Show No. 46: Get Your Web Type on with FontDeck co-founder...
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...
View ArticleHTML5, 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...
View ArticleAn 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...
View ArticleThe Web Comes of Age – DIBI Keynote Address by Jeffrey Zeldman
Jeffrey Zeldman – The Medium Comes of Age from Codeworks Ltd on Vimeo.
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleWeb 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:...
View ArticleBig 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 web context, using...
View ArticleWeb 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, I actually do know how the...
View ArticleResponsive 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...
View ArticleWebfonts 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/ The post...
View ArticleTypelab 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....
View Article@font-face and Web Performance
Some time in 2009, Firefox and Opera began shipping @font-face support with the former behavior: text would render with fallback fonts until downloadable font resources became available. But this...
View ArticleA Helvetica For Readers
ACUMIN by Robert Slimbach is a new type family from Adobe that does for book (and ebook) designers what Helvetica has always done for graphic designers. Namely, it provides a robust yet water-neutral...
View ArticleWeb type news: iPhone and iPad now support TrueType font embedding. This is...
TrueType font embedding has come to iPhone and iPad, Hallelujah, brothers and sisters. That is to say, Mobile Safari now supports CSS embedding of lower-bandwidth, higher-quality, more ubiquitous...
View ArticleCure 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 some valid...
View ArticleEpisode 32: Mandy Brown on publishing, Typekit, and more
MANDY BROWN (@aworkinglibrary) is our guest today, Thursday December 23, 2010 in Episode No. 32 of The Big Web Show, co-hosted by Dan Benjamin and recorded at 1:00 PM Eastern before a live internet...
View ArticleThe Big Web Show: Mandy Brown is up. Dana Chisnell is next.
BIG WEB SHOW EPISODE 32 is now online for your listening and viewing pleasure. Mandy Brown (Typekit, A Book Apart) joins Dan Benjamin and me to discuss the value of customer support, the present and...
View ArticleThe 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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