I had a wonderful time at SXSW this year and met tons of fantastic folks who came out to my presentation. Thanks to everyone who was there, I had a blast and I hope you all did too!
Get Stoked on Web Typography SXSW 2010
Click here to listen to the Podcast as you check out the slides! (updated 3/26/10)
Photo
by Keith Muth:
Mike Rohde’s Sketches:
Inspiration Examples:
- Beast Pieces Letterpress Blog
- Save the Dates
- Anthropologie Window Display
- Dart Swinger
- Site for the surf movie “Sprout”
- http://www.jrvelasco.com
- http://www.dollardreadful.com
- http://www.objectifiedfilm.com
- http://seedconference.com/seed.php
- http://jontangerine.com
- http://www.eljefedesign.com
- http://www.3131clement.com/blogs
- http://www.jeffcanham.com
- http://www.andoandfriends.com
- http://chirp.twitter.com
- http://www.spreadfirefox.com/5years/en-US
- Pentegram’s Truvia
Fonts Used & Mentioned
- Semilla
- Groovin’ font
- Buttermilk Font
- Archer
- Tungsten
Resources to find fonts:
Articles about Web Typography:
CSS3 Examples
- David Desandro
- Beercamp
- TweetCC
CSS3 resources
- Owltastic
- Up to Speed on HTML 5 & CSS3
Create Your own Font
- Fonstruct
- Fontlab
- Your Fonts
… & if you made it all the way down to the very bottom of this you may as well check out my flickr photos from the whole conference:
12 Comments
Here are the notes I took during your talk—not as pro as Mike Rhode’s.
http://mikeyanderson.com/blog/sxsw-getting-stoked-about-web-typography/
— March 23, 2010
Awesome, Mike!!! Thanks so much for sharing your notes. I hope you had a good time at the talk & all of SXSW!
— March 23, 2010
Hey Samantha, the podcast has been posted:
http://audio.sxsw.com/2010/podcasts/Interactive/2010-03-12/Get-Stoked-on-Web-Typography.mp3
— March 25, 2010
Hi Samantha. Looks like a great overview of typography. Wish I could have witnessed it in person. Can you tell me what you mean on slide 84 when you say there is “no pricing” for @font-face? FontShop has released downloadable EOT/WOFF fonts that you can use via @font-face right now.
http://www.fontshop.com/blog/?cat=80
— March 26, 2010
Hi Stephen,
Thanks for that great question. When I included that in my slide it was to point out that when you are using a font service versus DIY @font-face you are paying for the benefits of the “service” (in addition to… in some cases the rental fee for using the font). When using a service like Typekit they are taking care of the font hosting and they are automatically detecting your user’s browser and serving up the corresponding font file type (.eot for ie, .otf for firefox etc..) In the case of an open source font a web savvy DIY web person may decide to host the font themselves, convert the various font files, and write the code that detects each user’s browser and then not have to pay any sort of additional fee.
Thank you for pointing that out and I will definitely clarify that in any future versions of this presentation I give.
— March 27, 2010
Ok, just to be clear: Web FontFonts are indeed downloadable and hostable by the user. The license is a one-time fee. Typekit service is purely optional.
— March 27, 2010
Listening to this podcast mad me soooooo jealous of not being there! Really, really great to hear someone so buzzed on web typography, it’s really spurred me on, AWESOME.
Wanted to pick your brain if I could Samantha, as I’ve been looking for a font that has some elegant, delicate, swirls in its arsenal. Similar to some of the swirls that you have on your site. Can you suggest a typeface?
Would really appreciate any suggestions that you might have. Keep up the great work ; )
— March 31, 2010
Will,
I am glad you enjoyed the podcast, thanks for listening!
I would suggest you check out the Scripts section on Veer.
If you find a font you like and navigate to the “characters” tab you can often browse to see if the designer included extra glyphs.
I am a big fan of the work of Alejandro Paul, many of his scripts have really nice swashes and embellishments. I wrote a post about how much I love his scripts, you should check it out for ideas.
Thanks for your interest and good luck!
— March 31, 2010
You legend, I know how I’m going to be spending my long weekend now!, thanks and Happy Easter.
— April 2, 2010
Thanks for posting those slides! Quite inspirational. =]
— April 16, 2010
Good presentation overall, I really liked it… but!
Bunch of the examples you’ve used had really bad line spacing and kerning :(
— April 18, 2010
Hey Mariusz,
Thanks for the comment. I agree, the web still has a ways to go with spacing and kerning. Were there particular examples that you noticed?
~Samantha
— April 18, 2010
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— May 21, 2010
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