Gave this talk to a group of sophomore Interaction Design students at CCA in San Francisco. Covering web fonts, their relation to the history of typography, and the differences and opportunities in how we can use typography on the web.
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medium, and often desire in the web medium, is simply a function of the limitation of the printed page. We should embrace the fact that the web doesn’t have the same constraints, and design for this exibility.” John Allsopp, “A Dao of Web Design”