Fundamentals of Web Typography on Skillshare
I love typography, so I made a Skillshare class to help you learn all about the fundamentals of using type on the web.
I love typography, so I made a Skillshare class to help you learn all about the fundamentals of using type on the web.
Important cultural works get saved, documented, and written about. But do they paint an accurate picture of history?
I register a lot of domain names. They may not take up physical space, but they definitely take up a lot of mental space.
Something old and something new. Two books shaping how we approach responsive design.
Erin Kissane expertly outlines why our gatherings need a code of conduct. If you are a member of the web community, or really any community, this is required reading.
I’ve recently tried just using Twitter less, not engaging as often or as deeply to see if I could somehow keep it around. But not participating feels weird too.
Tim Ahrens and Shoko Mugikura of Just Another Foundry have released an updated and expanded edition of Size-specific adjustments to type designs.
My book On Web Typography is out! *deep breath*
In the back of my head is always a thought: What will I do when I stop designing websites?
Have you ever seen something that someone else made that you just hated? What happened next? Did you rush to Facebook or Twitter to share your disdain with the world?
The New York Times has been doing a great job covering the 2014 Winter Olympics, but also a spectacular job of giving the games a bit more context.
Today is National Punctuation Day (it’s totally a thing). To celebrate, I made a single-serving site to spread awareness of a horrible vestige in today’s typography: dumb quotes.
Last week brought another wonderful title to the A Book Apart library, Just Enough Research by Erika Hall.
All signs are pointing to a revamp of iOS being announced at Apple’s WWDC next week, and with it, a lot of speculation around what it might look like.
We’re making a new platform for writer and editors called Editorially. Our goal is to make the very best tool for writers — one that helps you collaborate, and so helps you write better.
Over 7 years and 167 issues later, the time has come for me to step down as creative director for A List Apart.
New from A Book Apart, Karen McGrane’s Content Strategy for Mobile.
It’s with a heavy heart I write that today is my last day at Typekit.
A response to a Branch discussion about the usefulness of baseline grids on the web.
The wonderful folks over at UPPERCASE Magazine invited me to participate in a fun typographic project called Beautiful Bitmaps for their latest issue.
Look ma, I’m on PBS! Or at least the PBS website.
Symbolsets are semantic symbol fonts that replace words with icons via OpenType ligature support.
New from A Book Apart, Mike Monteiro’s Design Is a Job.
Stamen has released some beautiful alternative takes on map tiles.
Kickstarter expects to provide more funding to the arts than NEA.
One of the best annual wrap-ups returns after a hiatus in 2009-10, Our Favorite Typefaces, from Typographica. Welcome back!
The latest issue of A List Apart is one of my favorites in recent memory, and has three articles you can’t miss.
Jason Santa Maria is a graphic designer living and working in sunny Philadelphia, PA. More