Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Notes on typographic decisions
Gerry Leonidas
September 16, 2013
2
340
Notes on typographic decisions
Six slides for an introduction to a panel at the W3C Open Web Platform workshop in PAris
Gerry Leonidas
September 16, 2013
Tweet
Share
More Decks by Gerry Leonidas
See All by Gerry Leonidas
Enabling modernity: innovation in modulated Greek typefaces
gerryleonidas
0
530
Helvetica is dead!
gerryleonidas
0
520
Putting type in from of eager eyes: type for global audiences
gerryleonidas
0
730
A framework for discourse in typeface design
gerryleonidas
0
330
Zombie Typography
gerryleonidas
0
530
Swift strokes and sampled constructs (Pt. 1)
gerryleonidas
2
1.7k
On minimum quality in typeface design
gerryleonidas
3
990
Typefaces for screens
gerryleonidas
7
1.7k
Notes on multi-script typeface design
gerryleonidas
1
1.7k
Featured
See All Featured
What's in a price? How to price your products and services
michaelherold
229
9.4k
How to name files
jennybc
40
63k
Refactoring Trust on Your Teams (GOTO; Chicago 2020)
rmw
21
1.4k
The Power of CSS Pseudo Elements
geoffreycrofte
47
4k
Fireside Chat
paigeccino
13
1.4k
Web development in the modern age
philhawksworth
197
9.3k
The World Runs on Bad Software
bkeepers
PRO
57
5.4k
How GitHub Uses GitHub to Build GitHub
holman
465
280k
Clear Off the Table
cherdarchuk
79
290k
The MySQL Ecosystem @ GitHub 2015
samlambert
239
11k
Debugging Ruby Performance
tmm1
65
10k
Distributed Sagas: A Protocol for Coordinating Microservices
caitiem20
316
19k
Transcript
Notes on typographic decisions Gerry Leonidas University of Reading @gerryleonidas
Monday, 16 September 13
Start with complex typography Monday, 16 September 13
For typographers, semantic and pragmatic dimensions are integrated. > Decisions
on sequence, grouping, continuity > Levels: document, article, paragraph, line [hierarchy!] Monday, 16 September 13
But the authoring environments determine options for makers. These move
closer to the first content maker, and away from fixed ideas of rendering. Monday, 16 September 13
Biased authoring environments Monday, 16 September 13
We are working on models for structural + semantic markup
at the time of authoring. content content content content content Monday, 16 September 13
Easy environments with deep specification potential Monday, 16 September 13