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At long last, designers can use real fonts on the web. But what now? Where do we go from here? Tim Brown has been studying type on the web for seven years, and has lots of ideas to share. In this talk, Tim will guide you through using typographic tools and perspectives that will change the way you design websites. Typography is an ancient art and craft; we are merely its latest practitioners. By looking to our tradition for guidance, we might once more attain our finest typographic achievements in this new medium.

Tim Brown is Type Manager for Typekit. He studies, promotes, and advances the craft of web typography on a daily basis, and shares what he knows at Nice Web Type. Tim has written for A List Apart, and he helps web designers with tools like Web Font Specimen.

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  • Cole Henley 1 year ago
    So much valuable stuff in Tim's talk and so resonant with what is now currently possible with fonts online.

    Particularly loved as just getting into letterpress myself.
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  • Joshua Sortino 1 year ago
    Tim's tool mentioned in the video can be found at modularscale.com/scale

    I have found this concept to be very beneficial to my design process. My suggestion to everyone is to watch the video and give it a try!
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  • Tim Brown 1 year ago
    Wow, folks. Thanks for these very kind words and for taking the time to watch my presentation.

    modularscale.com is where you'll find the calculator I made. Joshua's link points to the page you land on after having created a scale, and that URL may change in the future. Best to visit/bookmark the main page. (But thanks for linking to the site, Joshua! Lots of people found it this way.)

    Feedback and ideas welcome!
    twitter.com/nicewebtype

    UPDATE: I wrote an article for A List Apart:
    alistapart.com/articles/more-meaningful-typography
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  • Ben Hayes 10 months ago
    Inspiring talk from a truly excellent speaker. Great to hear someone explain so clearly how things can be made to "feel right" with minute changes which are not consciously discernable to most people at first glance.
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  • Isger Janson 8 months ago
    First I read your article on "ala.com" then I watched your speech and now I really want to thank you for your helpful advices about typography. I like the way you comprehend the meaning of it in modern times – to keep the golden mean between the laws of design that were discovered years ago and todays full artistic freedom. Tim, thank you very much!

    I'd like to talk about that stuff more too!
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  • Felipe Ribeiro 4 months ago
    Brilliant! Very helpful and inspiring indeed.
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  • BrunoG 2 months ago
    Really inspiring!
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