Episode 65: Tim Brown
Jeffrey Zeldman interviews Tim Brown of Typekit and Nice Web Type on where we are with web fonts, real web type in real web context, using Dribbble to develop a tone of voice, how saving small snippets of other people's content can turn you into a blogger
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Show Notes
Jeffrey Zeldman interviews Tim Brown of Typekit and Nice Web Type on where we are with web fonts, real web type in real web context, using Dribbble to develop a tone of voice, how saving small snippets of other people's content can turn you into a blogger, Samantha Warren's Style Tiles, molten leading orbital content, pages versus chunks, the type-driven design, web font fallbacks, the connection between leading and font family, transitioning from university work to Typekit, and much more.
Links for this episode:
- FacitWeb on Typekit
- Responsive typography
- Modular scales — meaningful numbers for layout
- More Meaningful Typography
- Build talk
- Web Font Specimen
- Real Web Type in Real Web Context
- How I use Twitter
- On leaving Vassar
- Font Events – Typekit Blog
- Ffffallback – a webfont fallback app
- Nice Web Type
- Typekit
- Adobe
- The Articulate Web Designer of Tomorrow – 24 Ways
- Orbital Content – A List Apart
- Fonts in Use
- Facit web font
- Typekit blog
- Nice Web Type
- Build Conference
- Design by Front
- Typecast app
- Style Tiles – Samatha Warren
- Responsive Summit
- Molten Leading – Nice Web Type
- Tim Brown on Dribbble
- Principles of Typography on the Web