Dave, Reagan and I had a great time conferencing at Converge SE this summer. If you missed it or want a refresher you can check out the example site from our Designing With Web Type workshop on GitHub, and view the slides from my talk, Controlling Web Typography on SlideShare. Thank you to Gene Crawford, the ConvergeSE team and to the attendees. We had a fantastic time.
My site is now responsive. The more I work with flexible images & grids and media queries, the more I appreciate what can be achieved. Any apprehension I may have had about whether or not a responsive approach would harmonize with my design sensibilities and Paravel’s workflow was erased while working on the redesign of The Do Lectures website. We didn’t have to overhaul our process, were able... Read more
Trophy Barbershop is a magical place. With wild game stuffed & mounted on the walls, leopard skin chairs, and scrappy old tattooed barbers slinging shears, it was the place in Baytown, TX, to get your standard-issue bowl haircut when I was growing up. My barber’s name was Randall Ashby. I loved being there, sitting on my booster seat and listening to stories while Randall feigned interest in my own.... Read more
The work you take on can define you—it’s what you practice, what you get recognized for, and what you’ll be hired to do next. I recently had a nice sum up the year chat with Frank Chimero. We talked about important things like tacos, paying bills, and how what we work on affects not only our bank accounts, but our careers and lives in general. I like to think... Read more
Lettering.js was built to solve a problem. As web typography improves, web designers want the same level of control print designers have. Just as we’ve moved beyond Helvetica and Times New Roman, we’ve begun to think about web type in finer detail than <h1> or <span> tags currently (semantically) allow. For example, when Dave Rupert and I prepared to markup the 3 sites for the Lost World’s Fairs... Read more
We were thrilled at the Paravel office to see such a great use of Lettering.js on Twitter’s 2010: Year In Review site- specifically on the headline for The 10 Most Powerful Tweets of 2010. Josh Brewer, and the rest of the Twitter design team used it to split up the words within the title h1 to resize, position and change fonts; achieving a none-too-shabby intro to the page. If... Read more
