Delicious Web Typography with Oliver Schöndorfer of Pimp My Type

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This final episode of 2024 features Austrian interface and app designer and fellow type geek, Oliver Schöndorfer. In this episode, you’ll learn LOTS about web typography, specifically:

• How Oliver defines web typography
• Web font hierarchy
• The ins and outs of choosing a typeface for the web
• The difference between ‘web fonts’ and ‘web safe fonts’
• A brief history of web typography
• The crossovers between typography for print and typography for the web
• The way that screen size plays a role in setting type
• Why variable fonts are a game-changer for the web, including how optical sizing works
• Best practices for accessible web typography
• The difference between absolute and relative units and why this matters
• Why we shouldn’t trust AI-generated type (yet)
• And finally, Oliver indulges Diana’s improv game to summarize key takeaways about web typography in to a dessert metaphor (yum!)

I encourage you to check out my two previous episodes with Oliver, Episode 134: Pairing Type with Oliver of Pimp My Type and Episode 156: Untapped Typography Potential.

Check out the show notes for some links to articles Oliver mentions in the episode at www.talkpaperscissors.info.

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