Tag: Typography

  • WPNYC: Typography – What You Should Not Do

    WPNYC: Typography – What You Should Not Do

    I had the privilege of giving at talk on typography at the New York WordPress Meetup. The video has been posted to WordPress.tv, I hope you enjoy! Note: This talk’s focus is on choosing fonts, not typesetting. There are some mis-uses of quotes and dashes here. Mostly due to bad habits developed as a result…

  • Typography, how to choose fonts for your site – WPNYC

    Typography, how to choose fonts for your site – WPNYC

    In this talk I covered what you should consider, and avoid, when choosing fonts for your site. Note: There are captions below the slides when it is in slideshow mode. For expedience, I resisted the temptation to mess with the caption styling. **Also note: **This talk’s focus is on choosing fonts, not typesetting. There are…

  • Web Typography – A quick and dirty guide to Enqueuing Fonts in WordPress

    Web Typography – A quick and dirty guide to Enqueuing Fonts in WordPress

    This coming Tuesday I will be speaking at WPNYC, the official New York City WordPress Meetup, on the topic of WordPress and Typography. Having started out as a front-end developer, I have always been inspired by beautiful typography used properly. I will post my slides once the recording of the talk goes live, but for…

  • “The Crystal Goblet or Printing Should be Invisible”

    “The Crystal Goblet or Printing Should be Invisible”

    This metaphor is truly stunning and puts into words the careful balance between that must be maintained between content and container. This is as true for a site’s design and the content it contains as it is for typography and the text it contains. “Imagine that you have before you a flagon of wine. You…