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Lecture at WebExpo Prague 2011 conference
This September, I will be giving a lecture at WebExpo (enjoy their psychedelic web!). I have never attended this conference so far, so I am quite excited. Apparently it is the biggest event of its kind (that is the web* kind) in Central Europe. Here is what I plan to tell the web designers in my lecture called “Type is the most important thing on the Web”:
Many designers think that typefaces are full of unimportant details. That is wrong. They are stuffed with details! And very important ones! Every single letter makes text accessible to web users which is, after all, the most important thing of all.
The possibilities of type on the web are extending at promising pace. However, it happened only with a notable delay that web and typeface designers started learning how to use type properly on the Web and how to achieve better readability on screen. What does contemporary Web mean to typeface design and what is web typography missing to become an equal partner to current print typography?