Berlin Typography – Text and the City // Buchstaben und die Stadt

February’s Font of the Month: Warbler Text | David Jonathan Ross

A lovely font based on the Bulmer typeface.

Text Effects - a Collection by Mandy Michael on CodePen

Mandy’s experiments with text effects in CSS are kinda mindblowing—I can’t wait to see her at Ampersand at the end of the month!

The New Web Typography › Robin Rendle

A wonderfully thoughtful piece on typography, Jan Tschichold and the web. This really resonated with me:

It’s only been over the past year or so in which I’ve recognised myself as a ‘Web designer’ with a capital W, as I now believe that something happens to information and technology, and even typography itself, when people pass through these interconnected networks and interact with hypertext.

It’s for these reasons that I don’t believe in “digital design” or “designing for screens” and it’s why I’m often attracted to one particular side of this spectrum.

Robin proposes three “principles, suggestions, outlines, or rather things-that-I-ought-to-be nervous-about when setting text on the web”:

1. We must prioritise the text over the font, or semantics over style.
2. We ought to use and/or make tools that reveal the consequences of typographic decisions.
3. We should acknowledge that web typography is only as strong as its weakest point.

There’s an in-depth look at applying progressive enhancement to web type, and every single link in the resources section at the end is worth investigating.

Oh, and of course it’s beautifully typeset.

Typography Effects with CSS3 and jQuery

Most of these are pretty over the top but they’re good proofs of concept.

this is a working library

I love the design of this site almost as much as I love the content.