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Mar 2, 2012 47 min

Episode 65: Tim Brown

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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

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