The Big Web Show

Long-time (since 1994) web design practitioner Jason Pamental, author of Responsive Typography from O’Reilly, is Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest. For more than an hour, the two designers geek out over responsive typography, the history of type on the web, and the explosive creative potential of the new variable fonts. Multiple Masters. FF Meta. Storing the offsets of the curve points. The three second timeout. Why FOUT is a feature, not a bug. Compensating for the differences between the web font and the backup font. The tragedy of Typecast, the new hope of Figma. Adidas. Nick Sherman. Paula Scher. Mandy Michael. And more. Links for this episode:Hi, I’m Jason | Responsive Web TypographyResponsive Typography: Using Type Well on the Web: Jason Pamental: 9781491907092: Amazon.com: BooksVariable Fonts | Responsive Web TypographyThe evolution of typography with variable fonts: an introduction | Responsive Web TypographyAbout Jason | Responsive Web TypographyJason Pamental (@jpamental) | TwitterVariable Fonts Experiments