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Archive 2012

On type gurus, or those who follow them, via @typophile, by @joeclark: http://bit.ly/6bnawZ
On Kraftwerk concerts at MoMA, by @newyorker: http://nyr.kr/I3xOD7 Exhibition? Retrospective? Curated? Creative use of the English language!
[exhibition] Guy Tillim. Second Nature. Amsterdam, Huis Marseille: http://bit.ly/wDKoCu He delivered a wonderful talk ...
... at Museum Folkwang, Essen, about photo(journalism) stereotypes and how to deal with them: http://bit.ly/JlHpT2
[archive] NYC Municipal Archives Online Gallery: http://on.nyc.gov/a1xJ4m Photos, maps, recordings. Via @SPIEGEL_Kultur
On @robothonconf, by @typeoff: http://bit.ly/I3vYRo Presentations: http://bit.ly/xudSsL Program: http://bit.ly/welg4D
[exhibition] Robert Crumb. From Underground to Genesis. Paris, MaM: http://bit.ly/xejLk3 Review, via & by @nytimes: http://nyti.ms/Ix9Yln
@NickSherman & @underware & @klimtypefoundry Maybe show actual effects? http://bit.ly/Evs5P at 00:20:00. The real thing: http://bit.ly/IbQDAw
@NickSherman & @underware & @klimtypefoundry Maybe a non-issue – someone who buys a pen is supposed to know vocabulary and grammar already.
@NickSherman & @underware & @klimtypefoundry Reminds me of my attempt seven years ago. Maybe you are more successful now.
One of those truely entertaining days.
On Google's Project Glass, via @petrvanblokland: http://youtu.be/9c6W4CCU9M4 That was a core feature of Star Trek's Borgs. Who were the evil ones.
@letterror Someone missed to read your tweet. Via @Tosche_E: http://typophile.com/node/91646
@essaime & @commercialtype & @vllg Thank you. Needed this reminder right now.
@clauseggers Look at it from normal viewing/reading distance. Nose touching screen is too close.
Font support for Mac Word user: "Some italics are missing in the font menu." – "Install fonts." – "I. Did." – "Again!" – "Still." – "Again!"
@typotheque Or not. Trying two more machines. Turns out: It is repeated reinstalling that brings up more styles. Mac Word making fun of me.
@hardwig Including ITC Golden Type! #secretlove
On what it's all about, or not. Or: Being there, creating things, and? Via @ilovetypography: http://bit.ly/yz2Ept
On new fonts, or being busy making more of the same, via & by @typotheque: http://tptq.com/no_fonts (Of 2011 but still relevant.)
On the value (or maybe: function) of type competitions, via & by @typotheque: http://tptq.com/competitions
If type looks skinny on iPad3, it's not display's, type's or rasterizer's fault. The typographer simply made the wrong choice, ...
... choosing a too light weight. Which so far he would get away with, thanks to low resolution and/or hinting. Now it shows.
@cole_peters & @iA Sure? Have not seen the device yet but my guess is that finally fonts look like they should.
@iA Sure? Have not seen the device yet but my guess is that finally fonts look like they should.
@clauseggers Perhaps save the link for whoever dares to complain about font EULAs.
On different types of creatives, work and audiences, by Steven Soderbergh: http://bit.ly/zwF22k
[self-observation] Disabled webfonts. Want to scan text efficiently, in familiar i.e. invisible medium, do not want to be reminded ...
... of the medium itself by every other site.
On true book love, in Darmstadt, by @sz: http://bit.ly/zEzB4W
@espiekermann And every text has every other text in it. Amen.
@espiekermann Maybe. Salden solved these problems earlier, though, and Polo does not remind of past and (then) present typefaces.
@espiekermann Ok. Only thing, if Polo was not on the analysis list, how come that Meta sketches in your Post Mortem article show Polo-isms?
On personal computing considered as a brief historical interlude, by @nytimes: http://nyti.ms/yxJBD3
@espiekermann & @klimtypefoundry & @typegirl Question was what inspired Meta – not what was widely available but what was available to you.
@espiekermann & @klimtypefoundry & @typegirl Your list misses the important one, Polo.
@espiekermann & @typegirl & @klimtypefoundry 1984 according to Berthold Types catalog.
On harmonics, patterns and dynamics, by Frank Blokland: http://lettermodel.org Intro: http://bit.ly/wwiwGO
@klimtypefoundry & @typegirl I don't care what he said. I've got two eyes. Btw, in 1985 said "look at 20 faces" was mere 6 faces ...
@typegirl & @klimtypefoundry Those I named are bigger influences on Meta then Letter Gothic could ever be, as should be evident to designers.
@klimtypefoundry & @typegirl Letter Gothic?! The spirits present in Germany at the time Meta was made were Polo, Formata, Syntax, Today, &c.
On how to get a Feature Documentary Oscar: http://bit.ly/ya2tut Involves hard work of mobilizing voters. Like this: http://bit.ly/Axj7fa
On teaching yourself anything in ten years, (kind of) via @underware, by Peter Norvig: http://norvig.com/21-days.html Encouraging.
@klimtypefoundry Sadly, 'amazing' and 'automagic' and other hyperbole is common when designers advertise self, fellows, and respective work.
@klimtypefoundry Think of anchors that aren't mere dots but visualize accents associated with them. That's it. http://kltf.de/anchors (PDF)
@frodebohelland If still in original shrink-wrap it should be possible.
On Hans Eduard Meier, designer of Syntax, via @typotheque: http://tptq.com/meier (With links to the article in English, French and Spanish.)
On EU's signing of ACTA, via @ultrasparky, by its 'rapporteur': http://bit.ly/xQUjGM
@MyFontsDE & @jenskutilek Brilliante parodie. Gestus der gelehrsamkeit bei gleichzeitiger vermeidung derselben. Endlich ein setzer mit humor!
While everybody is discussing SOPA, ACTA is in the making, via @clauseggers: http://bit.ly/5pMQA
@opentype & @jenskutilek For non-experts it needs to be even more precise. Reminds me of the 2004 'postscript' exhibition & book ...
@opentype Even with the "major" added, this is not a "development of" but rather an overview of what remained of it.
On CID-keyed CFF-based OpenType fonts, in 3 parts, by @ken_lunde: http://adobe.ly/svY5tQ & http://adobe.ly/zVOxsX & http://adobe.ly/wwGZea
@typegirl Still better than a roll of toilet paper in hand-knitted sleeve. That said ... haven't seen one in a long time. Dead as Beetle.
On the art of appropriation, via @vllg: http://nyti.ms/sgLHC9

Archive 2011

On licensing fonts, via & by @fadebiaye: http://bit.ly/tzM84Q
On the Blacklecker exhibition at Mota Italic Gallery. By @ultrasparky: http://bit.ly/tAHFDM By @motaitalic: http://bit.ly/ulZHi8 Now ...
... with a Making Of: http://bit.ly/vEt103 Today and tomorrow is the last chance to see it!
On relying on otherones' hardware, by @@IndyWorld: http://ind.pn/voGRBO Still in love with the cloud?
@rnkeller & @ultrasparky So much used to it, I didn't even notice ...
On clever marketing, via & by @iA: http://yfrog.com/h6rn2ip Pay for advertising Wired instead of getting paid for doing so.
@JanMiddendorp Definitiv. Lese aber designerblogs genug, um voraussagen zu können, daß einige "lesefreundlich" nachplappern werden, ...
... ohne diese feinen unterschiede zu machen. (So wie l-mit-schwänzchen-schriften per se für "lesbar" genommen werden.)
@JanMiddendorp Bei "lesen" denke ich eher an texte ab 200 seiten denn an viertelseitige produktbeschreibungen. Bin altmodisch. Zugegeben. :)
@MyFontsDE Ich nehme an, daß "lesefreundlich" hier nicht als "buchlesefreundlich" zu verstehen ist.
@shedbot (Am aware of it.)
On installing bundled fonts in OSX: http://kltf.de/ifonts
@ilovetypography & @typotheque A mere variant, an axis in MM/GX, not constituting a style of its own. Worth mentioning but not counting.
On using webfonts, via @opentype, by @fontdeck: http://bit.ly/uJIluu (PDF)
@typotheque I'd count weights, widths, slopes. All that needs a separate font. And mention smallcap, numeral and other variants as extras.
On having an idea after having been presented it, a recurring theme in Isaacson's Jobs biography, by @newyorker: http://nyr.kr/urlYiH
@klimtypefoundry He disagrees for the wrong reason. It isn't too analytic. It's pseudo-analytic: Counting. But counting irrelevant features.
On different approaches to spacing letters, via @MyFonts, by @PaulShawLetters: http://bit.ly/sGWBuN
On Raskin vs Jobs, by @iA: http://bit.ly/ugh8n6 (Bonus: The inevitable decoration designer comments suggesting it is a mere style issue ...)
On mistaking hype for insight, a review, by @evgenymorozov: http://bit.ly/puCMOt & http://bit.ly/s5LJu6 (German)
@underware With separate 'Like!' and 'Don't like!' flushes? In a social media era, experience not being shared is not experience.
@underware Does it maybe feature a built-in ebook reader on the lefthand side?
@underware Where are the bookshelves?
@RogerBlack You mean Weberian rather than Marxist, I assume.
On InDesign Liquid Layout: http://bit.ly/pqYMKw How cool is that. Addressing my feature request of 15 years ago!
When visiting http://buchmesse.de, don't miss the Island presentation in the Forum (level 1).
Thanks for inspiring TypeAmsterdam 2011 talks! http://bit.ly/nsSJPs
@WebINK & @TimAhrens You disagree with something I didn't say. I objected to @typographica's "adding new tech": Webfont services did ...
... not invent new (web & font) tech. Instead, they are new and valuable in being services, platforms, media, marketplaces. Foundries 2.0.
@typographica They are adding service not tech. (There is no tech in TypeKit that web developers could not do too.)
Adobe acquires Typekit, by @typekit: http://bit.ly/qHsoYH & http://adobe.ly/pKakIW
On writing, (kind of) via @rnkeller, by (the great) Gunnlaugur Briem: http://briem.net
@typotheque Indeed this (http://bit.ly/mSMzqr) is a good one, thanks! And one more, for the sake of completeness: http://irmaboom.nl
On the book, via @klimtypefoundry, by Irma Boom: http://bit.ly/armlxB Spot on: It needs to be an industrially made book. A book is made ...
... to spread information. It is about reproduction. It needs to be disseminated, in large numbers, all over the world.
Future E-ink with higher resolution, via @ThomasPhinney: http://bit.ly/peviCW
@gabrowitsch Not everyone.
@dberlow Keep things simple? ... New game: Classifying type by looking at the wrong details. Example: Bodoni as slab serif with thin serifs.
@dberlow Looking at it that way ...
On Adobe's Muse again, same criticism again, via @H_FJ, by @elliotjaystocks: http://bit.ly/qLyIIN
On Adobe's Muse & approaching web design as if it were print design, via @kupfers & @KauneHardwig, by @gerritvanaaken: http://bit.ly/qFHodd
On rendering text with DirectWrite in Firefox 6, via & by @nattokirai: http://bit.ly/nVNxJD On other things too. With rasterization viewer.
On the second type exhibition at @motaitalic, via & by @typeoff: http://bit.ly/nTOK7S
WOFF spec now a w3.org Candidate Recommendation, via & by @typesupply: http://www.w3.org/TR/WOFF/
@typeoff True. Though I cannot help thinking that later refined versions (on which digital ones are based) tend to be too streamlined.
@typeoff And 'y' too. Great use of it in 'Complete Sonnets of William Shakespeare' by Sylvan Press, 1955, typeset by Stempel in Frankfurt.
@t8y Heller bundles two unrelated books (an overview of organizational structures, political, a type sketching course book, unpolitical) ...
... and sells his bundle as one CI manual – that did not exist. A little research rather than looking at pictures only would have helped.
@opto Stop whining. Still using OSX 10.3.9 for my FLS5 font generation script which seems to be slower in newer OSX versions ...
@frodebohelland Not aware of another published tool either. Unless you want to produce webfonts soon (do you?), why not CFF-OTF for testing?
@frodebohelland Yes. WOFF is just TTF/OTF in another dress. It does not care whether you put glyph description into glyf or CFF table.
On the raster tragedy at low resolution, now with a how-to-read introduction. Via @jontangerine, by Beat Stamm: http://rastertragedy.com
On overdoing this grid thing, via & by @rnkeller: http://twitpic.com/5se1u7
Impressed by Ubuntu 11.04 with Unity (G)UI. Linux growing up.
On choosing typefaces, via @kupfers, by Matthew Butterick: http://bit.ly/pwqqZt Scroll down to the citation (indented & slanted & greyed).
On how incompatibility helps selling stuff, by @zeitonline: http://bit.ly/o2npKq (German)
@motaitalic Then Mr Carter chooses collaborators most wisely. Dead collaborators are the most pleasant ones – they don't discuss.
Not a fan of Capital Eszett. Whoever advertises Capital Eszett, though, MUST do so with this image: http://bit.ly/ooC7xi By @kupfers.
@mathieureguer & @rnkeller & @typeoff It sure does. And also helps understand why OTL does not allow implementing 'script grammar' (Milo), ...
... or in Gestalt terminology: OTL makers thought they could account for the 'whole' (law) by amassing a pile of 'parts' (phenomena).
@clauseggers Yes. I often think of turning to something else until font technology is there. And fear I would never get back to type again.
On font rasterization, by FreeType's David Turner: http://bit.ly/jcaAV7 Remarkable remarks on what's best.
On web fonts, an update, via & by @firefox's @nattokirai: http://bit.ly/mvcuIn (PDF)
Great weekend featuring @TypeTalks and @ampersandconf. (Missing both of them.)
@GoranSoderstrom & @dberlow Type designer's passion is one thing. Foundry's passion is another thing. Or in ...
... Vitali Klitschko's words: "Boxer kommen und gehen, Promoter bleiben, sie machen Geschäfte und verdienen an anderen." http://bit.ly/mBDhb3
@kupfers Question is how to define 'well-hinted, optimized' then. Does some y-direction-only half-hinting as most foundries offer count? :-/
Kermit: So I said to the waiter, I said, waiter what's this fly doing in my alphabet soup? & he said, standing in for the apostrophe. ...
... in The Muppet Show, John Cleese episode: http://amzn.to/kW4dyy
@WilliamBerkson Thank you, way better! Humans assisted by technology, with fallback to humans: http://bit.ly/joonnJ
@typeoff What about the Chicago model? http://bit.ly/m7srAO Unique ID per book, set up a database, and retrieve books by ...
... whatever category you want. (Makes me wonder how they will deal with loss of data, energy crisis, anything. Flood the whole thing?)
@pauldhunt Looking at past calendars rather than my clock tells me you're late, but congratulations nevertheless!
@FontFabrik's Lucas de Groot immersed in type, via @NickSherman, by @youknowcj: http://instagr.am/p/FdUYs
@delvew OS/2 version 3? We are at version 4 already. :)
Miracles happen: position:fixed to be fixed in iOS5, via @jontangerine, by David Calhoun: http://bit.ly/kNSvYD
Better late than never: Safari (as of upcoming OSX Lion) to support WOFF, via @nicewebtype & @TimAhrens: http://bit.ly/knsuGH
clauseggers & @GoranSoderstrom Thanks! (Kind of.) http://kltf.de/anchors
Apple still did not fix their not-CSS-compliant iDevice implementation of position:fixed, four years after first complaints? Wow.
On the humane interface, by Jef Raskin: http://amzn.to/kOCYkn Interface design myths deconstructed: customizability, icons, etc. Must-read.
@rnkeller Too sad everybody is trading stuff within a cage that I refuse to enter. So none of these apps is an option to me.
On creativity, kind of, via & by @petrvanblokland: http://www.petr.net/downloads/PetrTypo11.pdf.zip (PDF)
@jesseragan First @glyphsapp sketches for Athenian Extended Bold by @mrmucca? Via @chasnix: http://tdc.org/tdc/archives/2985 :)
@typeoff & @rnkeller & @sonja_keller This looks inviting!
@hardwig You are right, I think. Too sad. It would have been nicer the other way round.
On Atatürk's Latin script hand, via @jontangerine: http://bit.ly/loqEuJ Amused by the term 'harf marşı' or 'marschschrift' or 'laufschrift'.
Dear browser users. Font rasterization in FF4 and IE9 does not suck. Finally type looks like type. The b/w pixel-font look is so yesterday.
@letterror & @forcebold Such an FDK 3.0 might need GPOS 2.0 and GSUB 2.0.
[exhibition] Mitch Epstein. American Power. Paris, Fondation HCB: http://bit.ly/6KLLU Also: http://bit.ly/arUqsP
On going for the difficult and impossible things, by Terry Gilliam: http://bit.ly/l9SVBm [starting at about 04:30]
@letterror Thanks for the link!
@NickSherman Choice is always some ones' choice and by definition 'flawed'. Indeed it is compensated by the existence of many awards.
@NickSherman It would not hurt to gather some information about the trade before starting to hand out awards left and right. :)
TDC2 2011 winners, via @typedirectors: http://tdc.org/tdc/tdc2-2011-winners Belated congratulations!
On (@johnmaeda's) post-MIT insights, via & by @fastcodesign: http://bit.ly/dXxyfm Beyond techtoying, finally.
On misunderstanding 'digital book', via @typeoff, by Paul Luna: http://bit.ly/guIWhE Not representation alone but essence too was ...
... not understood. Not rethinking 'document' ('book' is just one incarnation) leads to 'digitized book' rather than 'digital book'.
@opentype It is not up to third parties to fix fundamental OS(x) issues and risk introducing additional ones ...
One more on MoMA's recently 'acquired' typefaces, at @DesignObserver, by Paul Shaw: http://bit.ly/hQDuyz Also: http://bit.ly/i6d98k & http://paulshawletterdesign.blogspot.com
On computers-as-we-know-them, by Ted Nelson: http://bit.ly/hVahNX A not-so-favorable account.
@klimtypefoundry Indeed every piece of work, regardless what, should be a statement. Too silly if nobody sees how it's made ...
... or what's inside. Even sillier if making otherones' work prevents one from making work of one's own. :(
On what a document is, via @hipertipo, by Ted Nelson: http://bit.ly/FM0qu
On Twitter's history, via @sgalineau: http://read.bi/feAmUK Interview: http://read.bi/ict8an More: http://fastcompany.com
Opera 11.10 out now, with WOFF support, via @jenskutilek & @opera: http://opera.com/browser Info: http://bit.ly/dEDmb3
Apple and Microsoft should love Switzerland: http://bit.ly/gt3lTw
@clauseggers Jens and me are speaking about the same thing. Not the but just a bug – kind odd expectations on apps' side. :)
@jenskutilek & @clauseggers @forcebold I consider it a bug. 'DFLT' script is non-standard & not in all fonts. Apps should fall back to 'latn' [or whatever else, if no 'DFLT' is found].
Raster Tragedy aftermath: http://bit.ly/ijD8qb Discussing technical details without first clarifying respective goals/ideals is pointless.
@iA Past weeks brought interviews with two energy bosses in Zeit and FAZ, with BASF boss in FAZ, plus similar remarks by Brüderle in SZ, ...
... same message everywhere. Of course these gentlemen are (in contrast to everyone else) rational & fact driven & entirely unbia$€d.
Glad to see that some do not follows every nonsense. Still curious to know more about MoMA's 'panel of expert advisors' btw ...
On MoMA's recently 'acquired' typefaces, via @forcebold & al, by Paul Shaw: http://bit.ly/i6d98k
@typesupply On machines with D2D enabled, DW is enabled too. Else set about:config's directwrite.enabled to true. ...
... (Rephrasing @nattokirai, in hope it is still true.)
Firefox 4 out now, via @jontangerine, by @firefox: http://glow.mozilla.org/ Like IE9 renders webfonts with DW-ClearType on Windows 7 & Vista!
On point size and the em square, or how to measure digital type, via @kupfers, by @thomasphinney: http://bit.ly/epFxEK
@kupfers U+e+umlaut is double favor! Via @kupfers: http://flic.kr/p/9rrk6Y
@typographica Good to know! And it occurred to me that 'grotesk' too is far from ideal when talking about Gill Sans & co in German.
@typographica & @typeoff A serious one. There is no excuse for translating 'grotesk' as 'grotesque', first denotes German and ...
... second British style. They better had used 'sanserif'. Now trying hard to not comment on the use of 'fonts' in this context.
IE9 out now, with WOFF support, via & by @IE: http://www.beautyoftheweb.com & http://ie6countdown.com For Windows 7 and Windows Vista only.
On the raster tragedy at low resolution, revisited. Via & by Beat Stamm: http://rastertragedy.com
On @ideo's new 'non-profit' business model, via @DesignObserver: http://bit.ly/i8LZbB If that's not creative I don't know what is.
On Doyald Young, a lovely portrait, via @ScottKellum, by @lyndadotcom: http://bit.ly/hgCdvJ Also: http://lettercult.com R.I.P.
On font-face syntax and other webfont tricks, via & by @opentype: http://bit.ly/flAAme And a font-face syntax update: http://bit.ly/dSMd5I
A great Matthew Carter interview, via & by @printmag: http://bit.ly/hJsRv1 Also: http://bit.ly/dTr4a8
@kupfers Thank you! There will be Grotext italics & updated uprights too. But first, re-writing my production workflow. Exciting year ahead.
On language-sensitive 'letterform segregation' in Sigmund Freud's handwriting, via & (annotated) by @hardwig: http://flic.kr/p/5ZnfzV
As long as smart-tech fonts like Legendum (http://bit.ly/Ycg9m) don't work anywhere, software developers better stop claiming ...
... OpenType/Unicode support. Wake up, Microsoft & Apple & Adobe! (Tip: Install Legendum, type any umlaut letter, and see what you get.)
@opentype Kerning alone is not enough. Browsers that do not apply OT layout features cannot legitimately claim to support TTF, OTF, or WOFF.
@espiekermann Almost missed the quiz! Q1: In chronological order, Mozilla's Mr Kew (WOFF format is essentially former ZOT format), ...
... @letterror & @typesupply (with former .webfont's metadata), Opera's Mr Lie (suggesting a cooperation). Q2: Among the earliest, ...
... Herr Herrmann & Herr Seifert (Graublau). Q3: Oh. Rhetorical questions. No prize? :-(
On how Jef Raskin helped invent the first Mac, via @JanMiddendorp, by @azaaza: http://bit.ly/g8Bxqd And finally, ...
... in a wonderful story, I learned it was him who "misnamed what should be the 'typefaces' menu the 'fonts' menu": http://bit.ly/hBTVpp
@espiekermann & @typedirectors It does not explain OpenType. It explains FF OpenType. A difference. Trust @gabrowitsch: http://bit.ly/fO6K1D
@typeoff I am jealous now.
And one more on bulletproof font-face syntax, via @MyFonts, by @FontSquirrel: http://bit.ly/fd8qql
On same-origin restriction and web platform consistency, via & by @annevk (Opera): http://bit.ly/fkYMBt & http://bit.ly/bsrmhs
And WebKit? Via @nattokirai: http://bit.ly/eoyNkR
Opera to support WOFF, via @opentype: http://bit.ly/fwBUWz So far without same-origin restriction as demanded by the spec.
@typesupply Especially when they should appreciate, at least, the built-in compression which WOFF offers ...
[book] Neurath's From Hieroglyphics to Isotype, via & by @hyphenpress: http://bit.ly/9zmfUG Making of, by Dr Burke: http://bit.ly/hAbqO1
Stephan Füssel to speak about Bodoni. Essen, Museum Folkwang (Gartensaal), 2 February, 19.00. Via @typeoff.
On OpenType layout feature support in applications, an updated overview, via @alepaul, by @typotheque: http://bit.ly/hmc4D9
(RT @commercialtype) Cap 'ß' is, and always has been, 'SS'. Anyone who tells you something different can be ignored.
Need to choose another typeface for (IBAN/)BIC code on invoices for, in all caps context, the 1 does not stand out enough as being a number.
On iKern (updated), via & by @IginoMarini: http://ikern.com
@thomasmaier_ & @skoda On 'rendering' vs 'hinting', a brief note because of too many words for a tweet: http://kltf.de/rvsh
On revisiting Ruzicka, via @typeoff, by @jesseragan: http://bit.ly/bR8WCE
[technology] In case you didn't know, via DecoType: http://bit.ly/U9CQ
The KLTF tweet archive: http://kltf.de/twitter
On font management in OSX, with background information, by @extensis: http://bit.ly/f0Hn9o (PDF)

Archive 2010

(RT @opto) A feature request (while waiting for DirectWrite) [...]: http://kltf.de/rasterdw
@opto Hm. For counters maybe? At larger type sizes? The complete image is even more intimidating. See page 4 of PDF: http://bit.ly/eSoNQq ...
On type, interview with @FontFabrik's Lucas de Groot: http://bit.ly/gP3U7U Published in Sabine: http://bit.ly/g4nLc5
Dear fellow foundries. Throwing technical terms like "kerning" or "hinting" at designers leads to nonsense like http://bit.ly/ijvW4j ...
... and http://bit.ly/fiI0N2 Authors say "subpixel hinting" when they mean "subpixel positioning" or "subpixel rendering" ...
... or rather the effect thereof. See: http://bit.ly/Zz6T7 & http://bit.ly/dPKvV9
[exhibition] David Hockney en perspective. Paris, Fondation PB YSL: http://bit.ly/hQPmga
[exhibition] Isotype. International Picture Language. London, V&A Museum: ttp://bit.ly/NN5dY Via @hyphenpress Also: http://gerdarntz.org
On WOFF and web font services, by @johndberry: http://bit.ly/f80a1q
@typographica Tweet had better been "Looks great on Mac & Win XP in IE7". Screenshots from FF 3.6, with "Standard" and no smoothing, please.
[non-type] On WikiLeaks and on revealing the secret that there is no secret, via @iA, by Umberto Eco: http://jr.ly/6adg
On keeping two InDesign documents' text in sync, via @indiscripts, by @indesigndocs: http://j.mp/i0FWG9 (Thanks @hipertipo for a correction!)
On DecoType's ACE & WinSoft's Tasmeem (for InDesign ME), by Robert Bringhurst: http://bit.ly/huTpAG
InDesign script for PDF export remembers settings & folder, via @indiscripts, by Peter Kahrel: http://bit.ly/eca1ed
On MyFonts statistics, via & by @MyFonts: http://myfonts.us/mfstats
On Webfontday in Munich 2010. Reviews: http://bit.ly/bks0mO & http://bit.ly/9ULm2w Program: http://wbfntdy.de
@opto Seems so: http://bit.ly/a0I8uw Yet it would make more sense to use this shape description in font( format)s too & avoid conversion ...
... and in addition, this description (as part of font formats) allows for built-in flexibility of shapes: shorten/lengthen curves nicely.
@ilovetypography More radically, imagine this multi-weight-path (http://bit.ly/atEKmo) as native OT glyph description format! Adobe? MS?
On DirectWrite being supported by Windows (7 & Vista SP2) browsers, via & by @forcebold: http://bit.ly/cM6DAw
@exljbris And like a cat. But it needs a dog nose.
@exljbris Could it be the dog just smelled another dog? And a cat?
[exhibition] Bilder einer Metropole. Paintings & photos of Paris around 1900. Essen, Museum Folkwang: http://www.bildereinermetropole.de ...
... which is particularly telling if approached with Hockney's Secret Knowledge in mind.
[exhibition] Steidl. Quand la photo devient livre. Paris, Monnaie: http://bit.ly/doIXfP Opening: http://lalettredelaphotographie.com & http://bit.ly/dbvuPM How To Make a Book: http://howtomakeabookwithsteidl.com
[exhibition] Larry Clark. Kiss the Past Hello. Paris, MaM: http://bit.ly/ap8PJT Missed it, too many waiting in line, no time to join them.
On future Firefox 4's support of OpenType layout features via -moz-font-feature-settings, via & by @nattokirai: http://mzl.la/aMHtX9
@typeoff Congratulations!
On Adobe's web font licensing policies, via & by Adobe's @ChristopherSlye: http://bit.ly/cOYLfQ
ATypI 2010 Conference attendees: Only 3 days left for 30%-off discount on KLTF fonts! http://kltf.de/atypi2010
ITC's legendary U&lc for download, via @typeoff: http://bit.ly/a0uLqn Right in time. Paper of my print issues is turning dark brown.
@hithro & @rnkeller Come on. That's not even a quarter of Arno Pro Italic's ca 1.25 million pairs. :)
DTL OTMaster 2.3 now available from FontLab too, via @ken_lunde: http://bit.ly/c2SaeC An older note: http://kltf.de/otm
[obituary] Thomas Harlan passed away: http://bit.ly/dB8dFW Interviews: http://bit.ly/bX28cP & http://amzn.to/8XEqmh
[obituary] Benoit Mandelbrot passed away, via @DesignObserver: http://nyti.ms/ahrBY4
On (web) font rasterization, via & by @thomasphinney: http://bit.ly/a1eKWz
@clauseggers Give books away but do not lend them. Books returned in bad shape, or not at all, are good reason for ending friendships.
@typeoff Strange world. Advertisement presented as articles (fact). Critical reviews written by external contributors and boxed (opinion).
[book] Program or Be Programmed, via @hipertipo, by @rushkoff: http://t.co/GX1fm0W & http://bit.ly/RushkoffDM
(RT @opto) A little bit of hinting is not enough, and swearwords are never enough, too: http://typophile.com/node/57993#comment-431834
@rnkeller Glad you liked it! For anyone who likes odd humor and is in Berlin right now: http://bit.ly/bn5hJw Matthew Carter among 2010 MacArthur Fellows, via William Berkson & @theorosendorf: http://bit.ly/caWxMx & http://bit.ly/bWxRrC IDEO's take on the future of book, via @swissmiss, by @ideo: http://bit.ly/91j1c5 Ouch.
On providing font source files, by Victor Gaultney: http://bit.ly/aTyTwJ
@hipertipo There is a printed version too: http://amzn.to/b81Vr4 & http://amzn.to/aMOX7H
On WOFF, ATypI 2010 Dublin presentation, by Vladimir Levantovsky: http://bit.ly/9emplv (PDF)
[book] Form+Code, including classics Mohr and Nake, via @letterror: http://www.formandcode.com
IE9 Beta (guide for developers): http://bit.ly/bWNCJ0
[exhibition] Do not miss the http://www.bookofkells.ie exhibition. This includes an Irish In India book exhibition in the Old Library. #ATypI
@typeoff There is no more exciting period. So much tension. Type: Koch (Claudius vs Kabel), Renner (Ballade vs Futura). Posters: Bernhard.
@typeoff Thanks! And congratulations. Dublin was the ideal place for your Hammer talk: http://kltf.de/atypi2010dr :)
@clauseggers Yes! This and the OS it requires. Admiring @FontFabrik for his OS in OS in OS games: http://bit.ly/9kZ9DJ & http://bit.ly/cwKkvQ
On historical font editors, by Adam Twardoch: http://vimeo.com/groups/62400/videos
Find a KLTF discount coupon in the ATypI Dublin bag: http://kltf.de/atypi2010 (Airport-to-city connection at the bottom of this page.)
DTL LetterModeller 3.0 available, via & by Frank Blokland: http://bit.ly/bSu5gL Also: http://bit.ly/aKbmro
A @rogerblack interview, via @jontangerine, by @DanBenjamin & @Zeldman: http://bit.ly/bl9W8b Also, by @PRINTmag: http://bit.ly/alJxD3
On CSS transparency applied to overlapping glyphs, via @dberlow (at @typophile): http://bit.ly/b9XEpV
On the TypeCon 2010 CSS3 Fonts discussion, by @nattokirai: http://bit.ly/aW84it (PDF) By @davelab6: http://bit.ly/cTfo2X
Web font service by Font Bureau, Ascender Corp, Roger Black, Petr van Blokland, DevBridge, via @opentype: http://webtype.com/
On license agreements and free fonts, via @extensis, by James Felici: http://bit.ly/904qs5
[film] @tomwaits is a stud, @rnkeller says: http://bit.ly/Q40TR
@sonja_keller You may find an answer in this talk: http://bit.ly/a0PhMe
Firefox 4 Beta 3 supports OpenType layout features, via Adam Twardoch: http://bit.ly/cdNW1u Beta download: http://mzl.la/1ePD15
@MyFontsDE Available from MyFonts too! http://kltf.de/tt-m
Friday 13 is Tiptoe day in Typodarium 2010: http://kltf.de/td2010 Enjoy and get Tiptoe at 50% off today: http://kltf.de/tt
On DIN Round, by Albert-Jan Pool: http://bit.ly/bY3MdA PDF: http://bit.ly/dawtRN
[type designers only] FLS5 script Make Kern Feature helps avoid "overflow of offset" error: http://kltf.de/mkf Manual: http://kltf.de/mkfpdf
On http://xierpa.com & why generative design is more than templates & needs programming, by & via @petrvanblokland: http://bit.ly/aXBcD9 ...
... and DocScape too is rule- rather than template-based: http://bit.ly/arGZ5k See: http://bit.ly/bO5m8U
@exljbris How will you arrange displays then? And where? Floor or ceiling? :)
And one more, by @motaitalic: http://bit.ly/aereOa (Rob, you killed my one tweet per conference approach!)
@typeoff & @hardwig & @dezcom Thank you for this and for your & @motaitalic's great reviews, and @MrBrezina for organizing TypeTalks!
Type conference reviews:
On TypeTalks 2010 Brno. By @hardwig: http://bit.ly/d7ZXOQ & http://bit.ly/9cQzCA By @typeoff: http://bit.ly/amLjrP
On ICTVC 2010 Cyprus. By @motaitalic: http://bit.ly/9vA4kR By @typeoff: http://bit.ly/bRPVWs
WOFF (draft) spec moved to w3.org: http://bit.ly/8ZuwTw
Web font service by URW++, via @opentype: http://www.urw.de/webfonts/
FontLab Fontographer 5: http://bit.ly/tCdAj Note the simplified font naming and metrics dialog.
@Shotype_EN Thank you!
On web fonts, via @shotype_EN, by @nattokirai: http://bit.ly/aP3Rez PDF: http://mozilla.org/...
@extensis Looks like wasting time with nonsense. Why not rather ask Apple to support real fonts not toy fonts on their iDevices?
IE9 PP3 with WOFF support, via @Typophile & @Typotheque: http://bit.ly/bJhbvR Sample pages: http://bit.ly/b8lCMC http://bit.ly/c8pRuh
[music] Just back from a http://tigerlillies.com show at http://ruhrfestspiele.de. Being deeply impressed.
On the meaning of "open", or: Apple, Safari and HTML5, by @PaulDHunt and @TimBray: http://bit.ly/9JL5he and http://bit.ly/cXwlN4
Web font service by Just Another Foundry, via @TimAhrens: http://bit.ly/npliD
Web font service by @fontdeck, via @jontangerine: http://fontdeck.com
Yet another web font service, via and by @extensis: http://bit.ly/bmuwTz
Web font services by Ascender, via @sgalineau: http://www.fontslive.com/ and by FontBureau: http://webtype.com ...
... and API by Google, via @TimAhrens: http://tiny.cc/8ibno Though I think there is no better API than a font & plain CSS at-font-face ...
... and browsers that support both, of course. May 21st
On WebKit CSS properties: http://tiny.cc/96e44 All the -webkit- prefixes don't go together with Apple shouting "Standards!" all the time ...
[Previous tweet via @dardenstudio and @schriftgestalt.]
Joshua Darden and Georg Seifert speaking at AIGA/NY's Fresh Dialogue this Friday 14 May: http://tiny.cc/7o3e5 Register: http://tiny.cc/4vey1
Adobe publishes Tin library for font manipulation, via @ken_lunde: http://tiny.cc/6m9vn
Stone Type Foundry offers project-based font licensing: http://tiny.cc/vov6d
IronPython for VS2010, via @scottgu: http://bit.ly/cfiSCu Dependencies: http://bit.ly/aQgZoA IronPython browser apps: http://bit.ly/ak9mzz
(RT @jontangerine) People think the Apple Adobe issue is about them but it really isn't. It's just about Apple and Adobe.
On iPad, Kindle, and the value of content, via and by @NewYorker: http://bit.ly/9Y8QaW
It's a BAT! It's a BAT! Via (in this order) @typeoff, @opto, @mathieureguer, @batfoundry, @rnkeller & @commercialtype: http://bit.ly/aDiOPz
On fonts in Creative Suite 5, via @ken_lunde: http://bit.ly/c8c6hK Also: http://bit.ly/apx4fm
@jontangerine On OpenType features supported in CS4, by @Adobe: http://bit.ly/9Nfmng (last page) What do you mean by "advanced"?
And WebKit? Via the former link: http://bit.ly/w7IpT
Chromium and Chrome to support WOFF: http://bit.ly/djDNX8 Also: http://bit.ly/aLAx0Z
Promising words on WOFF, by IE program manager @sgalineau: http://bit.ly/d2qjMy
WOFF submitted to W3C by Microsoft, Mozilla and Opera, via @sgalineau: http://bit.ly/c2M764
On DTL's revivals of Jan van Krimpen's typefaces Romulus and Haarlemmer, by Frank Blokland: http://bit.ly/djCYu8
[non-type] Interesting business model, via @iA: http://bit.ly/9Joqkh
On iPad and SVG fonts in Mobile Safari, via and by @opentype: http://bit.ly/cOu3Ic Calling SVG fonts "fonts" is rather euphemistic though.
On how much Apple and Microsoft care about type, via @jontangerine, by Joe Clark: http://bit.ly/cWXDEJ Also: http://bit.ly/Ks3Wj
iPad app designer perspective: http://bit.ly/9ecy3R
iPad user perspective: http://bit.ly/cyBfhh Warning: User is a typographer.
@typographica Indeed. A font is more than a collection of glyphs.
@realunderware Good idea! So here again Underware on designing Liza Pro: http://bit.ly/90MYFv Now in English.
@typotheque Thank you! Typotheque's multi-generation calendar: http://tptq.com/100y
DecoType's Thomas Milo on designing ACE layout technology and typefaces: http://bit.ly/a0PhMe
Tiro Typeworks' John Hudson on designing SBL Hebrew, MS Cambria Math, and the new Brill type: http://bit.ly/92uMye
Microsoft's Geraldine Wade on designing Gabriola which made its debut in Windows 7: http://bit.ly/Evs5P
Typotheque's Peter Bilak & Satya Rajpurohit on designing Fedra Hindi, via and by @DesignObserver: http://bit.ly/cW4wj8
Underware's Bas Jacobs on designing Liza Pro, via @RealUnderware: http://bit.ly/979T7a
@IE Too sad ... only EOT but no WOFF support in current IE9 preview. Via @letterror: http://bit.ly/aAgxMv
On web font history, via @jontangerine, by Bert Bos: http://bit.ly/a21RQp
Congratulations to TDC2 2010 winners, especially DecoType (Nastaliq), @ken_lunde (Kazuraki) and @sehstoerung (Aisha): http://bit.ly/cklpU7
Oracle's Larry Ellison on the notion of 'cloud', via @daringfireball: http://bit.ly/4haG0d Also: http://bit.ly/Ovtrx
The downside of cloud: http://bit.ly/bb1aTi
Obviously "being inspired" is a phenomenon not restricted to type design, via @designobserver: http://bit.ly/d86KUw http://bit.ly/bXhH9r
RMX Tools 1.6 out now, via and by @TimAhrens: http://remix-tools.com
CSS3 Fonts spec (draft) with support for typographic OpenType features, via and by @nattokirai: http://bit.ly/4BLvyR
The reflective mode of Adam's Pixel Qi screen sounds good. But it takes more than an iPad-like low resolution to make a type designer happy.
@typeoff Lieber nicht ...
Titus Nemeth's new site, via (in order of appearance) @sehstoerung, @opto, @mathieureguer, @typeoff: http://tntypography.com
Notion Ink's tablet Adam, with PixelQi screen, via @hipertipo & @pauldhunt: http://notionink.in http://bit.ly/cHeOdM http://bit.ly/by9emO
WIRED's take on the future of magazine, via @khoi: http://bit.ly/b4r2mf More info, via @pauldhunt: http://bit.ly/d5wEuN
Xierpa, online CMS for web and PDF output, via and by @petrvanblokland: http://xierpa.com
Even more on Microsoft, via @sgalineau, by @berkun: http://bit.ly/c7yQrg No ClearType in this one, though.
More on Microsoft and ClearType, Apple and iPad, via @hipertipo, by Bill Hill: http://bit.ly/a0fNBv
On Microsoft's Creative Destruction, via @a7an, by Dick Brass: http://nyti.ms/b2aWlK Do not miss the two paragraphs on ClearType.
Standard vs common, via @pauldhunt: http://bit.ly/agsR5T Same story for browser plugins, operating systems, and font technology. Related ...
... Mozilla's rationale for not supporting ActiveX, via @planetmozilla: http://bit.ly/8fIIko
@commercialtype Nice, the calendar pages are set in Kuester's Today Sans.
Firefox 3.6 out now, with WOFF support, via @firefox: http://bit.ly/blogfx36
Anti-piracy organization's logo made with ... pirated fonts. Via @opto and @typegirl, by @BaldCondensed: http://bit.ly/7qjDs4
@vllg @typegirl True. The typographer me likes "&c", so the type designer me never thought of an "etc" ligature. Could be funny though.
Re-enable LCD font smoothing for some monitors with Mac OS 10.6: http://bit.ly/13oe74
Firefox 3.6 Release Candidate available, via @firefox: http://bit.ly/4GbRuk
@MrBrezina Strange enough, I did not even know about Parnassus until recently. Nice 2003 Rushdie-Gilliam interview: http://bit.ly/3ih1K
[film] Forget Avatar, watch The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus!
InDesign scripting link collection, via @WinSoftTeam, by @indiscripts: http://bit.ly/58vodq Following @indiscripts now.
#10yearsago I worked on a student project, Litteratra, as a PST1 font. Now, 10 years later, I hope for something more sophisticated than OT.
New http://vllg.com site, with new releases by @commercialtype, @realunderware and @typesupply. Via @typegirl and @hithro.

Archive 2009

All the best for 2010!
Time/Wonderfactory's take on the future of magazine, via @commercialtype: http://bit.ly/6X29UI Related, via @chcs: http://tr.im/GY4t
Bonnier/BERG's take on the future of magazine: http://bit.ly/90Lycm Comparison of Time and Bonnier approaches is instructive: ...
... Time/Wonderfactory is pepping up 'magazine' with some motion. Bonnier/BERG is finding an essence of 'magazine' and reconstructing it.
On Windows font rasterization, via @opentype, by @thomasphinney: http://tr.im/ITtT
[documentary] Enlightening and saddening, Die Anwaelte: http://bit.ly/7HSmLl The contemporary press: http://bit.ly/7UEiX3 (vol 1)
DTL OTMaster 2.0 out now: http://bit.ly/5sEWww My preferred tool for inspecting and editing OTF/TTF fonts.
DTL Type & Design Conference 2009 presentations online now: http://bit.ly/4qVlps PDFs here: http://bit.ly/8QRlNz
@typeoff I told you so!
Jaywalking on fonts, via http://bit.ly/5BKG89, by Brian Lawler: http://bit.ly/Y9Btu
Typotheque's (online) Type Applications (for foundries), via @typotheque: http://www.type-apps.com/ Marvellous.
John Gruber on operating systems beyond Win/OSX, via @litl, by @daringfireball: http://bit.ly/YUoQK
IE9 to use DirectWrite (rather than GDI) for rasterization, via @typophile: http://bit.ly/1rTRSP Discussion: http://bit.ly/7BA7w9
@rnkeller Will do.
@exljbris Very nice indeed! And enjoyed DTL Type & Design Conference the next day. But missed A-J Pool's talk. (Treating my cold now.)
Albert-Jan Pool will be speaking about Constructed Sans Serif Typefaces (A Bauhaus Myth?) on Nov 20: http://bit.ly/1u2C5z
@commercialtype Was alluding to @opto's naming wish, your emphasis on editing, and @mathieureguer's request for consistent font support.
@opto @commercialtype It's late, so dreaming is allowed. @mathieureguer That's too much even for a dream.
Adobe's new proportional-width typeface Kazuraki, via @typegirl: http://bit.ly/3AdcW Tutorial: http://bit.ly/rbEGX (PDF)
On web fonts and mobile devices, via @paul_irish, by @greenideas: http://bit.ly/3U1B1X
@rnkeller Free? It is your specimen copy, for contributing. Nice: http://bit.ly/rgvbi
Typekit is live now, via @typegirl and @typekit: http://typekit.com
Good to see interfaces beyond Win/OSX, after http://laptop.org now http://litl.com, via @pentagramdesign: http://bit.ly/2f8ADP
@typegirl They support mark/mkmk/ccmp. But neither one-to-many lookups nor canonical (de)composition. No serious mark attachment possible.
@pauldhunt Then do it! Similar sentiment, I hate precomposed diacritic letters and would prefer using mark attachment. But: Adobe apps ...
... among others, to be fair. (Not an excuse, though, in year 10 of OpenType.)
Mozilla's Advancing Web Typography presentation, by (and via) @nattokirai: http://bit.ly/3x9o1Q Fill gap on p.67 with: http://bit.ly/2hQc4N
WOFF so far, via @hithro, by @arstechnica: http://bit.ly/4qJNsf
[documentary] For the latest gossip see Luke Holland's lovely documentary Looking for Mr Gill: http://bit.ly/1GuuHR
[adult content] Eric Gill, via @MrBrezina, by Tom Gauld (Guardian): http://bit.ly/3umu86
Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 available, via @firefox & @mozhacks: http://bit.ly/1d1ZzJ Info: http://bit.ly/fx36b1dev
Glyphs Beta available, by and via @schriftgestalt: http://bit.ly/PMhvv
[book] Crumb's Genesis, via @printmag: http://bit.ly/2IjWjp Saw a nice preview last year: http://bit.ly/3mVw9l
Register for DTL Type & Design Conference, The Hague, in November, with speakers J. Hudson, P. Karow, Th. Milo: http://tinyurl.com/yf5s8ad
@hipertipo The distinction is ok for type designers but confusing technicality for users. Wish I had never touched the rasterization issue.
@hipertipo Just stick to the term "hinting". Regardless of format. Even Microsoft's Greg Hitchcock does: http://bit.ly/VRG3j
Dr Peter Karow Award goes to Thomas Milo. Congratulations to the DecoType team! http://bit.ly/39f0G8 A note: http://bit.ly/1P0CTz
Mozilla testing DirectWrite for font rasterization in Firefox under Windows 7, by (and via) @nattokirai: http://tinyurl.com/yldremm ...
... which helps CFF-based OpenType fonts in particular. (In terms of rasterization, Windows is a problem child.)
Web based font tester, via @mozhacks, by @thecssninja: http://tinyurl.com/yha7mr4 Details: http://tinyurl.com/yhcl85o
Mozilla considers support of typographic OpenType features in Firefox 3.7, via @mozhacks: http://tinyurl.com/ykp9jfv
Official now: Mozilla Firefox 3.6 supports WOFF, via @typesupply: http://tinyurl.com/yjataxj Details: http://tinyurl.com/yhwqycv
Typotheque launches Web Font Service, via @typotheque: http://tptq.com/webfonts
MotaItalic offers web font license, via @typeoff: http://tinyurl.com/yjzqock
@FontSquirrel ... but convert fonts to web fonts only if you are a foundry or got the foundry's permission to convert!
Support Mr Nix's 26 Letters for 26 Miles & TDC Scholarships! Via @typedirectors: http://www.charlesnix.com/ Read: http://tinyurl.com/yzfjfw4
On reducing web font size, via @paul_irish, by @stoyanstefanov: http://tinyurl.com/yz4qyou Btw, WOFF has built-in compression.
@H_FJ Hm, but web fonts are drawing attention (the commentary) to issues which affect not shareware fonts or web fonts alone.
More on web fonts and performance, via @H_FJ, by Steve Souders: http://tinyurl.com/yh6xsso
On (web) font rasterization, by @thomasphinney: http://tinyurl.com/yhclq9z I do not agree with the conclusion though.
On reducing web font load time, by (and via) @paul_irish: http://bit.ly/1qtZi8
@petervanlancker For me it's more about seeing people and exchanging ideas – offline.
@petervanlancker ATypI in turn seems very FL. Only exception is @schriftgestalt's presentation of Glyphs: http://tinyurl.com/yhom547
Will not visit this year's ATypI Conference: http://tinyurl.com/yzakdku Unfortunately. But ...
... DTL Type & Design Conference, The Hague, in November: http://tinyurl.com/yf5s8ad
WOFF fonts to be supported in FireFox 3.6: http://tinyurl.com/yezytb6 (via http://tinyurl.com/ych9xre @H_FJ @hithro)
@MrBrezina Indeed a font should be as generic a text machine as possible. Too much language-dependence means structural incompleteness.
Video about Microsoft Gabriola and Publisher 2010, via @typegirl: http://tinyurl.com/nsyyd5 Regarding end-of-video comment by Jeff Bell ...
... it is MS apps which are late to the party! Fonts with typographic OT features are there, waiting for MS to join. No invitation needed.
WOFF font validator aka woffTools, via @hipertipo: by @typesupply: http://tinyurl.com/yff7yh8
@typotheque Critique exists not to consent or dissent (mere opinion is boring), but to dissect.
On (Xbox and Android) font rasterization, by @ascenderfonts's Steve Matteson, via @hipertipo: http://tinyurl.com/66gmvm
@typeoff & @MrBrezina I am embarrassed now.
@H_FJ @RogerBlack It is a Windows problem, or neutrally: a matter of rasterization "philosophy", ie what do OSX & Windows expect from fonts?
Web fonts now, presentation by @paul_irish: http://tinyurl.com/ncdgdz
[book] The ideal present, Ed Ruscha's On the Road: http://tinyurl.com/ruschakerouac
Command-line WOFF font validator, by (and via) @typesupply: http://bit.ly/HGlh7
More on bulletproof font-face syntax, by Mozilla's John Daggett: http://tinyurl.com/mhg7qn
And one more update. ZOT + .webfont = WebOTF = WOFF: http://tinyurl.com/nd5p2j Still supporting it. #webfont
On bulletproof font-face syntax, by (and via) @paul_irish: http://bit.ly/YPpgO
Typotheque shows web font service, via @typegirl: http://tinyurl.com/nqlmrg
Searching for (Google) Books, via @ellenlupton: http://bit.ly/1SU5v1 #google
Oh, and ... Adobe AIR font rasterization, by Miguel Sousa: http://tinyurl.com/rdehct
On (web) font rasterization at headline sizes, by @jontangerine (2008, with comments of 2009): http://tinyurl.com/656lys
On (web) font rasterization at display sizes, by @jontangerine (2007): http://tinyurl.com/nnflmr
It goes without saying that KLTF supports WebOTF. #webfont
And finally ... ZOT + .webfont = WebOTF: http://tinyurl.com/lvsfgu #webfont
The dark side of type, (web) font rasterization: http://tinyurl.com/m2kka3
For comparison, one more web font format candidate, ZOT: http://tinyurl.com/kse4y2
Typotheque announces web font service: http://tinyurl.com/l7y2nj
For comparison, said EOT format: http://tinyurl.com/nx26mk
KLTF supports the .webfont proposal: http://bit.ly/WgIFQ Not really a fan of EOT ... #webfont


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