Good Design in any field demands that the designer know materials with which he is working. It is an unfortunate product of today's industrial methods that the man who knows typographic material most intimately because he 'sticks' type day after day is no longer the designer of printing.
– Carl Dair
Abstract
Beyond the world of css toolkits and web design patterns, a typographer’s point of view simplifies the layout of a crowded page. In this talk I will share a writer and an engineer’s story of how he taught himself Typography, what he learned by reading Carl Dair, Ellen Lupton, and Jason Santa Maria, how he wrote lousy typo libraries on github and began his journey into Type.
We will explore the essence of responsive typography with key CSS3 text and font properties, transformations, and use scripting libraries to inflate and kern letters on responsive grids. I will end with a demo where we’ll typeset a Poem written in HTML5 and transform it into a responsive page.
This talk is a part of my ongoing research on responsive typography.
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Learning Responsive Typography
Beyond the world of css toolkits and web design patterns, a typographer’s point of view simplifies the layout of a crowded page. In this talk I will share a writer and an engineer’s story of how he taught himself Typography, what he learned by reading Carl Dair, Ellen Lupton, and Jason Santa Maria, how he wrote lousy typo libraries on github and began his journey into Type.
We will explore the essence of responsive typography with key CSS3 text and font properties, transformations, and use scripting libraries to inflate and kern letters on responsive grids. I will end with a demo where we’ll typeset a Poem written in HTML5 and transform it into a responsive page.
This talk is a part of my ongoing research on responsive typography.
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