TypeCon 2010: A New Birth Of Type

08.20.2010

As good as digital gets there is still no replacement for face-to-face. Never will be. The only thing that a human really understands is other humans. Facial expression, tone of voice, body language – the real people deal – there’s just no way to get that from afar. Technology allows us to adopt a persona [...]

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Playing Up WOFF At TypeCon, LA

08.18.2010

[Los Angeles, CA]The W3C is seizing the opportunity to publicize WOFF – the Web Open Font Format – in conjunction with TypeCon here in LA. Here are some relevant links: W3C Opens Typography on the Web WOFF Frequently Asked Questions W3C Leads Discussion at TypeCon 2010 on New Open Web Font Format (WOFF) The Lions [...]

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TypeCon 2010

08.16.2010

The yearly font fest, TypeCon, is being held in Los Angeles this year. As last year, Readable Web will be there to report. TypeCon is sponsored by SOTA – The Society Of Typographic Aficionados. Posts and pics from last year: Web Font Players Converge At TypeCon 2009 Web Fonts At TypeCon 2009 Fun stuff. And [...]

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Harvey Pekar In A Time Before Google

08.13.2010

Harvey Pekar, Not Long After We Met Comic Book innovator Harvey Pekar died last month at the age of 70. I met Harvey a long time ago when I was a young musician and on-and-off student at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. This was well before his comic book series American Splendor, or his [...]

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Microsoft WOFFles On SVG Web Fonts In IE9

08.07.2010

In a post on the IE Blog, the following excuse was given for not supporting SVG Fonts: “As IE9 has implemented more of the standards that developers use and value, IE9’s Acid3 score has continued to rise. The remaining points involve two particular technologies (SVG Fonts and SMIL animation of SVG) that are in transition. [...]

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Fixing Web Fonts, A Case Study

08.03.2010

Zoe Gillenwater writes about web design, especially Cascading Style Sheets. She’ll be speaking at John Allsopp’s Web Directions USA in Atlanta on Sept 21 in a presentation titled Efficient and Effective Design With CSS3. A few months ago she announced a new book in the works called Stunning CSS3. I went to the book’s dedicated [...]

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E-Book Publishers Go Delusional

07.29.2010

Book publishers seem lately like a group of prep-school kids who’ve gotten into an altercation with a bunch of gang-bangers on their way home. Pepper spray versus automatic weapons. Yeesh. An article today in the NYTimes, E-Books Fly Beyond Mere Text, tells of publishers once again revisiting the fantasy land of “multimedia”. This latest phase, [...]

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To Kindle Or Not To Kindle

07.28.2010

Decisions, decisions. Today my wife the doctoral candidate asked my advice on whether to buy a book she needed as a P-Book or the Kindle edition. (We have the Kindle DX.) The name of the book is The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn. (Strangely, I remembered both the book and the author’s name. [...]

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Two Joes On The State Of E-Books

07.26.2010

Everybody knows that books are special. Books require special “formatting”. And special E-Readers, of course, which will – via small nasal attachments – give you that special new book smell, too. (Don’t believe it? It’s already available as an aerosol.) Just remember that what “everybody knows” is useless information. And upon close inspection, usually flat-out [...]

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On Facebook, Nobody Knows You’re A Dick

07.12.2010

My wife spends at least as much time online as I do. But there’s a few things about digital tech that she just doesn’t quite grasp. She doesn’t get that computers are basically stupid. And that, if you set up an account on a site using a particular spelling of your name or an email [...]

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