Typefaces are the most important thing on the Web
David Březina
Design Hall, fri 23rd sep 10:55
35 min., cs › en
Many designers think that typefaces are full of unimportant details. That is wrong. They are stuffed with details! And very important ones! Every single letter makes text accessible to web users which is, after all, the most important thing of all.
The possibilities of type on the web are extending at promising pace. However, it happened only with a notable delay that web and typeface designers started learning how to use type properly on the Web and how to achieve better readability on screen. What does contemporary Web mean to typeface design and what is web typography missing to become an equal partner to current print typography?
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David Březina
type designer & typographer, Rosetta type foundry
Czech type designer and typographer, writer and lecturer, co-founder of the multi-script type foundry Rosetta, and the impresario of the TypeTalks conference. You may know him as a designer of the award-winning type family Skolar. So far, he has designed typefaces for Cyrillic, Greek, Gujarati, Devanagari, and various extensions of Latin.
More about David at www.davi.cz.
