brianburns + fonts 15
What the iPad is Missing (No, it’s not a Camera)
january 2011 by brianburns
Stephen Coles examines the state of typography on the iPad for The FontFeed.
ipad
typography
fonts
readability
january 2011 by brianburns
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march 2010 by brianburns
Font Squirrel's tool for creating @font-face kits that are fully compatible with Internet Explorer's EOT format.
css
font
fonts
typography
march 2010 by brianburns
TYPOBerlin Videoblog
january 2010 by brianburns
Check out these brilliant keynote videos from TYPOBerlin. The talks by Martin Majoor (the creator of one of my favourite typefaces — Scala) and the brilliant Jonathan Hoefler & Tobias Frere-Jones are a must watch. The presentations are from years gone by but they're still completely relevant… if not more so nowadays, given the sudden influx of typefaces at a web-designers disposal owing to Typekit and other @font-face platforms.
typography
design
blog
inspiration
typeface
fonts
january 2010 by brianburns
The Right Type of Education
january 2010 by brianburns
"The Type and Media masters program has a long history at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten in The Hague. Currently, the ten-month course is divided into two distinct parts, and limited to eleven students a year. The first five months comprise eight different weekly classes that expose students to numerous fundamental aspects of the type design process. The second half of the course is focused mainly on the development of individual final projects."
typography
education
fonts
type
january 2010 by brianburns
On Web Typography
january 2010 by brianburns
Jason Santa Maria on A List Apart: "As more typefaces hit the scene, we need to understand how they can best serve our designs, and to push ourselves to move beyond mere novelty in our selections. If much of the web is made up of text—and it is—web typography can be a very powerful tool indeed."
alistapart
typography
design
usability
fonts
january 2010 by brianburns
The problem with pixels
january 2010 by brianburns
Wilson Miner writes about sizing fonts in CSS — "Design for the ideal, build for flexibility".
css
typography
design
accessibility
fonts
january 2010 by brianburns
Relative readability
january 2010 by brianburns
Wilson Miner: "After years of wondering why browsers defaulted to 16pt text sizes I’m starting to be convinced that long text really is significantly more readable on screen at precisely that size."
typography
usability
readability
web
fonts
text
january 2010 by brianburns
A List Apart: Articles: Real Web Type in Real Web Context
january 2010 by brianburns
The gentleman that is Tim Brown (who was kind enough to invite me on to Dribbble) recently posted on A List Apart about his 'Web Font Specimen' resource. WFS allows for designers to see how typefaces imported via @font-face render in web-browsers.
typography
fonts
usability
alistapart
@font-face
type
january 2010 by brianburns
LAIKA
january 2010 by brianburns
With LAIKA, there is finally a font that can seamlessly use the whole spectrum of its cuts. A font that is able to move between its extremes in real time. An interactive font that is able to respond to its surroundings. A font that questions deadlocked dogmas and throws up completely new design questions, and thus has the potential to revolutionise the understanding of digital typography.
typography
design
fonts
type
typeface
ui
digital
january 2010 by brianburns
The 100% Easy-2-Read Standard
january 2010 by brianburns
Via iA: Most websites are crammed with small text that’s a pain to read. Why? There is no reason for squeezing so much information onto the screen. It’s just a stupid collective mistake that dates back to a time when screens were really, really small.
typography
usability
design
fonts
type
readability
UX
uxdesign
january 2010 by brianburns
Web Design is 95% Typography
january 2010 by brianburns
Via iA: "95% of the information on the web is written language. It is only logical to say that a web designer should get good training in the main discipline of shaping written information, in other words: Typography."
typography
design
web
fonts
usability
UX
uxdesign
january 2010 by brianburns
Just—My—Type™
january 2010 by brianburns
Just—My—Type™ is a side project of designer Jakob Nylund / Formconspiracy. All typefaces are free to download and free to use without any restrictions.
typography
fonts
design
free
type
inspiration
illustrator
typeface
january 2010 by brianburns
Favorite Underused Fonts Fonts
january 2010 by brianburns
Support typographic diversity. Use a few of Font Fonts underused fonts.
typography
fonts
design
typeface
fontshop
january 2010 by brianburns
Letterhead Fonts
november 2009 by brianburns
Typefaces For The Professional Artist
typography
fonts
design
type
inspiration
november 2009 by brianburns
Tungsten
september 2009 by brianburns
Fantastic new typeface from Hoefler & Frere-Jones. Just when you think they can't do any better…
fonts
typography
typeface
tungsten
type
september 2009 by brianburns
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