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Web Developers, Type Designers & Browser Supporters: Ally!

Event Interactive 2010
Format Panel
Organizer Bram Pitoyo Link En Fuego
Description Every panel on web typography features interactive designers/developers. This is not that panel. Folks behind the design, use and support of typography—type design, font embedding technology and browser—will talk about their practice and proposed solutions to rich typography on the web.
Questions
Answered
  1. How many ways can you embed type on the web?
  2. Is it okay to use a ‘hacky’ font embedding vs. a standard-compliant one?
  3. How far has modern browser support the latest in OpenType font technology?
  4. Web developers like as much freedom to use type as they can, but how does this impact type designers?
  5. What has the W3 foundation done about this? Are new ideas still being published every day? Has there been any consensus?
  6. What is coming in the next CSS specification? font-variant? Small caps? What else?
  7. What goes in through a type design process for a font that’s fit for the web and low resolution displays?
  8. Knowing all this, what is the best way to embed type?
  9. I know all about the standards! Now tell me all the fun, hacky ways to embed type!
  10. How do you allow designers and developers do what they want with web type, yet allow foundry to keep their properties?
Level Beginner
Category Accessibility / Web Standards, Business / Entrepreneurial / Monetization, Design Thinking, Digital Distribution, Visual Design