The Big Web Show

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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