Tuesday Apr 22

Beautiful Web Typography

Last Sat­ur­day I had the plea­sure of pre­sent­ing my first pre­sen­ta­tion on typg­ra­phy, at Canberra’s very first BarCamp. The talk was titled “Beau­ti­ful Web Typog­ra­phy: 7 tips on de-​sucking the web” and is avail­able via:

First slide of the presentation

I think I crammed too much into the 20-minute time slot—I didn’t leave time for com­ments and questions—on the other hand I’d love to give future iter­a­tions of this pre­sen­ta­tion so I can add many other tips and tricks I left out.

I’d like to add addi­tional CSS exam­ples and make more of a note of the YUI library’s CSS which almost anyone can make instant use of. A few screen­shots of exist­ing web appli­ca­tions and web sites show­cas­ing the tips in action also can’t go awry.

In closing I should note that I owe thanks to a few type nuts – see the last slide in the pre­sen­ta­tion.

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6 comments

  1. 1. Lindsay Holmwood
    Apr 22, 23:56

    Your slides were great, and I’m sure your pre­sen­ta­tion was fan­tas­tic. :-)

    I espe­cially liked the 7th tip(s).

    You might also want to check out Ellen Lupton’s “Think­ing With Type”. http://​tinyurl.​com/​4​6xyg5. It’s a great general ref­er­ence to the world of typog­ra­phy, and she cares about the web too!

  2. 2. Pascal
    Apr 23, 00:25

    @Lindsay Holm­wood: I’ve had my eye on Think­ing With Type for while but haven’t ever ordered it or wan­dered into a book­store to grab it—I think I now know what to get with my 50-dollar voucher from Bar­Cam­p­Can­berra tomor­row!

  3. 3. Ycros
    Apr 23, 09:27

    Great set of slides, I’ll have to have a listen to the mp3 when it is released. It would be good to set the slides to the mp3 in a video, as there are a few people I’d like to throw the pre­sen­ta­tion at.

  4. 4. Pascal
    Apr 23, 11:59

    @Ycros: Thanks. I believe video footage was taken of each of the pre­sen­ta­tions but I’m not sure what will be hap­pen­ing with that—I’ll ask.

  5. 5. Olivier
    Apr 23, 21:58

    Great pre­sen­ta­tion! I really enjoyed watch­ing it – sleek pre­sen­ta­tion, very good content, I learned a lot. Would it be pos­si­ble for you to share it as a PDF? The link on Slideshare requires reg­is­tra­tion, and the Slideshare slide­view is only mod­er­ately con­ve­nient…

    Thanks a lot in any case!

  6. 6. Pascal
    Apr 23, 23:49

    @Olivier: Thanks. I’ve uploaded it and added the link in the list above.

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