Screen Fonts, Web Fonts, Now!

TYPO Berlin 2009 Space | Saturday, 23 May | 11:00 am | english

The time has come that graphic designers have been waiting for a choice of fonts on the web. This is both a great opportunity and a threat for type designers, but it is inevitable. Black, a New York designer known for the use of custom fonts in print, shows the use of screen fonts in real projects, currently and in the near future. He’ll vent some of the technical issues, and suggest an appropriate web standard and a way to get it done.

Roger Black

Roger Black

Roger Black is known for staying slightly ahead of societal and technological changes. A publication designer at Rolling Stone in the 70s and The New York Times in the 80s, he was an early adapter of »desktop publishing«, with Smart. In the mid-90s, he lead the design of innovative content-rich…

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