There is no style like typographic style
I never had much of a bad feeling about missing out on SXSW, until now. All day and all night the better-known SXSW attendees showered me with tweets about their whereabouts and adventures. These Twitter messages varied from interesting comments about the panels people attended to the more trivial experience of a tipsy Canadian web-accessability hero who couldn't gain access to his hotel room - because of a faulty keycard. All this and of course the Flickr shots of Jeremy Keith Tanteking were making me green with envy.
But what really got to me, being a lover of typography, was missing the presentation on web typography by Richard Rutter and the great Mark Boulton. If you aren not familiar with their work, please check out the awesome Web Typography project by Richard and the insightful blogposts that Mark gradually incorporates into a book.
With their presentation Web Typography Sucks the two Britons put their finger on the trouble with online typography. In print for instance, even the papers with the worst content use correct typographical styling, whereas on the web the greatest thinkers end up being quoted between inches or feet. Luckily, there is hope: several examples and resources were shown. And the best is, you can go and download the presentation slides.
Go and improve your typography!
Labels: clearleft, sxsw, typography, webdesign, webdev
