Typesetting @typesetting@mastodon.social
Here, @timbrown shares ideas about how to practice typography, and how the craft is changing. He also wrote Flexible Typesetting, available from A Book Apart.
Pick fonts, tailor layouts, and find out how typography has changed because of the web.
📗 Flexible Typesetting, from A Book Apart: https://abookapart.com/products/flexible-typesetting
Great first day of office hours: choosing typefaces, variable fonts, design tools. It’s fun talking with smart people! Sign up here: https://calendly.com/typesetting/30min
I’m holding office hours this month, and there are still slots available. Sign up and let’s chat: https://calendly.com/typesetting/30min/09-11-2018
I’ve been thinking about how to distill all this advice about web font loading into a single ✅ checklist of important items that you can apply to today’s loading strategies and the next thing too.
The Web Font Loading Checklist https://www.zachleat.com/web/font-checklist/
The variable fonts tool in Firefox 62 basically make it the best browser. https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/09/variable-fonts-arrive-in-firefox-62/
Okay yes, Firefox 62 is coming out this week—the last major evergreen to include Variable Font support—but can we talk about this Firefox Devtools Fonts tab with Variable Font axis sliders??
https://caniuse.com/#feat=variable-fonts
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/09/variable-fonts-arrive-in-firefox-62/
I thoroughly enjoyed this conversation with Thomas Jockin, in which we delve deeper into some of my book’s definitions and reasoning: https://medium.com/type-thursday/how-can-flexible-typesetting-make-you-a-better-designer-62b7b2cf0061
The Italics for Source Serif were just released, and I am very happy about it!
https://blog.typekit.com/2018/08/16/source-serif-italics/
“If someone prefers an extreme default font size, that’s not wrong; it is absolutely right for that person.”
—@timbrown
Pick fonts, tailor layouts, and find out how typography has changed because of the web.
📗 Flexible Typesetting, from A Book Apart: https://abookapart.com/products/flexible-typesetting
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Here, @timbrown shares ideas about how to practice typography, and how the craft is changing. He also wrote Flexible Typesetting, available from A Book Apart.
