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Press Checks in the age of Web Type Erik Vorhes · TypeCon2012: mke shift

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Every society rewrites its past, every reader rewrites its texts, and, if they have any continuing life at all, at some point every printer redesigns them.” — D.F. McKenzie, Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts “

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Newton MessagePad 2100 screenshot courtesy Grant Hutchinson: http://flic.kr/p/bzK9Hp

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Newton MessagePad 2100 screenshot courtesy Grant Hutchinson: http://flic.kr/p/bzK9Hp

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Photo courtesy Luke Dorny: http://flic.kr/p/2SchtC

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Photo courtesy Scott Boms: http://flic.kr/p/a4GhwF

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Photo courtesy Corey Holms: http://flic.kr/p/pqZy3

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really?

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really. not

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Image not to scale. See: https://twitter.com/Zerofee/status/231759450036396032 “Type rendering beautifully in “Win7, as ever *sarcasm*” — @Zerofee, August 4, 2012, 7:32 a.m.

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.pre%ie9%opacity-{ --background:-white; --filter:-alpha(opacity=100); } .pre%ie9%opacity-{ --background:-transparent; --filter:-alpha(opacity=100); }

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http://drbl.in/bcPd /*-Artificial-bold‽ -*-Uh,-we're-only-loading -*-font%weight:-normal.-OOPS. -*/ h1-{ --font%family:-herb,-serif; --font%weight:-bold; }

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xScope http://xscopeapp.com Color Oracle http://colororacle.org

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enough practice!

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//-Load-webfonts-by-using-JavaScript! WebFont.load({ --custom:-{ ----families:-'Vista-Sans-Web', ----urls:-'/css/fonts.css' --} }); WebFont loader: https://github.com/typekit/webfontloader

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.banner-{ --h1,-h2-{ ----font%family:-"Vista-Sans-Web",-"Lucida-Grande"; --} --h1-{ ----font%size:-(13em/16); ----.wf%active-&-{ ------font%size:-(14em/16); ----} --} --h2-{ ----font%size:-(32em/16); ----line%height:-(37/32); ----margin%bottom:-(7em/32); ----padding%top:-(6em/32); ----.wf%active-&-{ ------font%size:-(36em/16); ------line%height:-(37/36); ------margin%bottom:-(7em/36); ------padding%top:-(6em/36); ----} --} }

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Thanks! Press Checks in the Age of Web Type TypeCon2012: mke shift August 4, 2012 Erik Vorhes · @erikvorhes