Putting the Fonts into Webfonts
summary
Describes concrete work: building a cloud.typography service, a WebKit drawing tool for proofing, and new screen smart fonts engineered for 9–18px. Gives numbers: a 42-style family, fractions up to 140,000, an 18-person team, and one launch that sees 11 million hits in ten minutes. Documents what changes (weight, proportions, single‑story g, stylistic sets, character‑subset controls) and shows those changes improve legibility on Windows and mobile and actually deploy at scale.
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chapters (38)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:00Who are you
- 1:42How did you start out
- 2:49Type Designers
- 3:25Team
- 4:30The Journey
- 4:51The History
- 5:43The Boneshaker
- 7:02Philosophical Questions
- 7:17Typography
- 8:00Technical Challenges
- 10:15Original
- 11:44Type Phases
- 14:21Hepler Text
- 15:11TrueType GX
- 17:09Knockout
- 18:04Sports Illustrated
- 19:36Mercury Text
- 21:43Media Strategy
- 23:45Webfonts
- 26:51Design of Webfonts
- 27:38Size
- 28:14Tools
- 28:41Gotham Screen Smart
- 31:14Font Families
- 33:59Font Weights
- 37:00Fonts Features
- 37:29The Everyday World
- 39:06Digital Presentation
- 39:35Web Fonts
- 40:24Web Fonts as an extension of the font
- 41:29Changing character sets
- 42:25Sharing with user
- 43:20Mercury
- 43:58New Feature
- 47:07Obama for America
- 49:20May Inspire
- 50:44OurDo
