Podcast appearances and mentions of jason pamental

In this episode, John Picozzi and Jason Pamental explore the connections fostered by using Drupal across different geographies, the evolution of conferences, and how design systems are being utilized at Chewy. We also delve into the application of AI in e-commerce and coding, and discuss the practicalities of maintaining governance in large organizations. Join us for an engaging discussion filled with personal anecdotes, professional insights, and future prospects. For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/503 Topics John Picozzi John Picozzi is the Solutions Architect at EPAM Systems, where he helps organizations implement scalable and sustainable digital solutions—most often using Drupal. With over a decade of experience in web development, John has become a trusted voice in the Drupal community for his commitment to open source, user-centered design, and thoughtful architecture. John is a contributor to Drupal and an active member of the community as the organizer of the Drupal Providence Meetup and New England Drupal Camp. He's also well known as a co-host of the Talking Drupal podcast, a weekly show focused on all things Drupal, where he interviews community members and shares insights on development, strategy, and community engagement. Outside of podcasting and coding, John frequently speaks at DrupalCamps and conferences across the U.S., offering sessions that span technical deep dives to community and career development topics. You can find more about his work and speaking engagements at picozzi.com, or follow him on Drupal.org Jason Pamental Jason Pamental is a designer, strategist, and technologist specializing in typography, variable fonts, and digital design systems. He is currently Principal Designer at Chewy, where he leads their design system efforts and helps guide their mobile app architecture and strategy. With over 30 years of experience, Jason has worked with organizations such as Adobe, ESPN, Fidelity, and the State of Rhode Island to shape impactful digital experiences. He's a globally recognized expert in web typography and the author of Responsive Typography. His work has helped define how variable fonts are used on the web today. Jason is a frequent speaker at conferences like Beyond Tellerrand, An Event Apart, and SmashingConf, and he shares his knowledge through writing, teaching, and open source contributions. His articles, presentations, and resources can be found at rwt.io — short for Responsive Web Typography — and many of his talks, videos, and associated resources are available on https://noti.st/jpamental An active supporter of the open web and the Drupal community, Jason is committed to bridging the gap between design and development. Outside of work, he enjoys riding bikes, making espresso, spending time with his family in Rhode Island, and following Leo and Henry around Turner Reservoir, posting photos on Instagram. Hosts John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Jason Pamental - rwt.io.

Chris Strahl sits with Juli Sombat from Spotify and Jason Pamental from Chewy as they unravel the evolution of digital typography, emphasizing the shift from dictation to suggestion. They explore the dynamic between designers and users and the transformative power of user customization.View the transcript of this episode here.Register here for our upcoming webinar, ‘What Really Matters in Design Systems' on October 25th.GuestsJuli Sombat is the design lead for Encore, Spotify's family of design systems. Her passion for cross-functional collaboration and her deep understanding of the principles and practices that underpin successful design systems help her evangelize for systems thinking at all levels. Prior to Encore, she led the multi-brand design system at Conde Nast.Jason Pamental is a Principal Designer at Chewy working on their design system, an Invited Expert on the W3C's Web Fonts Working Group, and a deeply nerdy fan of variable fonts and web typography. Or just another hack with a camera phone, walking around at sunrise posting pictures of a really photogenic collie.Link to the Monotype article Jason wrote: https://labs.monotype.com/caseco-a-case-for-variable-fonts-2d86960a0c19HostChris Strahl is co-founder and CEO of Knapsack, host of @TheDSPod, DnD DM, and occasional river guide. You can find Chris on Twitter as @chrisstrahl and on LinkedIn.Sponsored by Knapsack, the design system platform that brings teams together. Learn more at knapsack.cloud.

Designer, tinkerer and typographer Jason Pamental joins me to chat about what creative possibilities variable fonts bring. We also dive into web font performance, how to improve loading speed with practical tips, and why this all will become obsolete in the nearer future. From this easy going conversation, you'll learn: ➡️ What's different with typography for screen design. ➡️ About the most common typographic challenges on the web. ➡️ What effect bad web typography has on people. ➡️ About the adoption of variable fonts in 2022.

In the first episode of Season Two, I got to sit down with my good friend, Jason Pamental, and talk about variable fonts. Lots of great discussion about what variable fonts are, favorite fonts, usage, and we talked about Jason's projects and his new role at Chewy as Principal Designer of the Design Systems team! Intro/Outro music graciously given permission to use called, "Settle In" by Homer Gaines. Sound editing by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions. Transcripts can be found at: https://toddl.dev/podcast/transcripts/pamental #variablefonts #fonts #designsystems Show Notes https://rwt.io - Jason's website https://rwt.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=0019faab58713ad49bce9acc3&id=b35d41a2eb - Jason's newsletter https://twitter.com/jpamental - Jason on Twitter https://instagram.com/jpamental - Jason on Instagram https://www.linkedin.com/in/jpamental - Jason on LinkedIn https://medium.com/@jpamental - Jason on Medium https://codepen.io/jpamental - Jason on CodePen https://github.com/jpamental - Jason on GitHub https://letterfromjail.com/ - Letter From Jail Variable Font project https://mobydick.wales - Moby Dick Variable Font project https://css-tricks.com/dark-mode-and-variable-fonts/ - Robin Rendle article on CSS-Tricks https://djr.com/font-of-the-month-club - David Jonathan Ross Font of the Month Club https://variablefonts.io/ - A Variable Fonts Primer https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/proxima-nova - Proxima Nova font https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/marksimonson/proxima-vara/ - Proxima Vara font https://www.marksimonson.com/ - Mark Simonson's site https://georgia.gov/ - State of Georgia web platform https://rwt.io/blog/2021/08/quahog-design-system-web-platform-state-rhode-island - About the Quahog Design System https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/responsive-typography/9781491907085/ - Responsive Typography on O'Reilly --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/frontendnerdery/support

Today we are talking about Non-Code Contribution TalkingDrupal.com/317 Topics What is Talking Drupal Podcast with audio and video We recorded our 300th episode in June, over 175 guests, 700K audio downloads Weekly episodes covering a variety of topics Most recent 315 with Tara King, Director of Developer Relations at automatic, Comparing Drupal and Wordpress Communities Visit www.talkingdrupal.com This may be a different keynote than you are accustomed to. Talking Drupal is a discussion, and that's what we are having today. Today we are talking about Non-Code Contribution: Using your passion and skills to power open source. What is contribution in an open-source project? Providing your time, skills or resources to benefit the project Today we're talking about non code contributions Early on contribution was considered writing code Over time we have learned to value non-code contributions just as much as code contrib Rather than defining non-code contribution by what it is not, we need a term to define it by what it is Community is built in meetups, camps, and cons Majority of contribution has nothing to do with coding at a camp Attending Speaking Training Organizing Organizing a camp (NEDCamp.org / Nov 19th) Volunteering at a camp Stephen - Sponsorship, lead for many years Nic - Website & Signage John - Current Lead, Day of Logistics, Venue coordination Some other examples of contribution Mentorship Documentation Training Summits Being on a committee/Board Answering questions in issue queue Answering questions in slack Who is a contributor? Is it a self designation or a community designation? Why would you contribute? Contribution is a relationship Give and receive Makes you feel good Benefit Skills Technical Communication Project Management Benefit Career Skills Visibility Building Personal Network Networking at Events Financial Compensation Contribute does not always mean nights and weekends Usually starts that way Contribute as part of your job Employers are open supporting open source, there are benefits got both company and employee Contribute to external project or contribute internal project to open source Will your company support your time to make NCC 315 we learned about Wordpress' contribution goals Launched in 2014, Five for the Future encourages organizations to contribute five percent of their resources to WordPress development. Government 2016 Federal Source Code Policy Support for open source usage, encourage sharing across agencies 20 percent created code should be open source Start the Dialog with your company Why do we contribute - Contribution can be personal like donating to your favorite charity or playing your favorite game. Nic I was asked I enjoy giving back Helps my career Stephen Sharing and Learning John To help people and solve technical challenges for people Education and knowledge sharing To support something larger than myself / make the world a better place How did TD Start Long before Joe Rogans podcast deal with Spotify of 100 million 2008 - With Liberty and Justice for All - 5th grader Obama McCain 7 episodes Mechanics of podcasting,work involved with pre and post record production Virtual book club with Jason Pamental - pick a web design book, assign weekly chapters, Google Hangout Like to learn - similar Drupal journeys - makings of an interesting podcast… great reason to talk every week When did we start considering it a contribution? When did we start giving contribution credits on Drupal.org How did Talking Drupal come to be a non-code contribution? It always was a non-code contribution, we didn't consider it at first because the Drupal community was code focused. Drupal.org Credit for TD started 20 November 2020 Community Projects When did the drupal community start supporting NCC Why is this important How has the show & other non-code contribution impacted our lives / careers Stephen Friendships Have helped others Nic Friendships Clients John Connections - Hey you are that guy Given me a sense of value Gives me a sense of supporting the community Why are non-code contributions important As valuable to the health of a project as code contributions. There are non-code requirements for all projects Not everyone is a developer/coder Get's more people with a variety of skills involved in the community Moves open source forward Challenges of Contributing Contribution Imposter Syndrome My Contribution isn't valuable Dealing with concerns that it's not helpful Focus on your skills and passions Work, life, contribution balance Work it into your work Build a career based on contribution Contrib doesn't have to be Nights and Weekends Add 30 min to the start or end of your day If you do tackle one thing a night Provide contrib during your workday Sustainability Projects are easy to do short time, Energy is high Newness interesting Most podcast don't make it past 8 episodes Long term is a challenge Pre-show guest scheduling, content planning, shownotes Post Production audio and video Release and marketing 1 hour show = 6 - 8 hours Priorities and interests change over time NCC easier to transition in and out Had to make transition out of my primary roles and I did that, projects have thrived in those transitions Be honest with yourself How to get involved / How to contribute Just get started Look at your skill set Look at your interests Ask in the issue queue or drupal slack for a starting point You can also reach out to most camp organizers for recommendations Takeaways John Anyone can and everyone should contribute Stephen Your contribution is valuable Nic Code and non code are equal to the long term health of the project Resources www.talkingdrupal.com www.talkingdrupal.com/315 www.nedcamp.org Hosts Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Stephen Cross - @stephencross

Today we are talking with Jason Pamental about his most recent project Quahog, the new website platform for the State of Rhode Island. www.talkingdrupal.com/301 Topics John Security Alert RSS Feed Jason Launched 10 Sites and visiting family Nic Suprise Birthday party What is Quahog? Technology powering the platform Site Factory Drupal 9 Pattern Lab Other technology options Length of planning to first launch Number of sites on platform End goal Pattern Lab Pros of Site Factory Resources Drupal Security RSS Feeds Core - https://www.drupal.org/security/rss.xml Contrib - https://www.drupal.org/security/contrib/rss.xml Example Sites https://ltgov.ri.gov/ https://covid.ri.gov/ https://dhs.ri.gov/ Components Module https://www.drupal.org/project/components Drupal Providence Video https://youtu.be/MXOwt8V-26 Guests - Hosts Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Jason Pamental - rwt.io @jpamental

Today is a special episode of Talking Drupal, we look back over 300 episodes and pick out some of our favorite moments from Talking Drupal's past. We also bid farewell to Stephen the founder of Talking Drupal. www.talkingdrupal.com/300 Topics Stephen - Blink critter camera John - Thank you Stephen! Jason - Bike ride with the family Nic - Rebuilding API Dries - In Belgium Drupal Community End of Life for Drupal 8 John's Favorite episodes The Night before DrupalCon (79) Drupal 8 Cache System (233) Dries' First Episode (38) Nic's Favorite episodes Jono Bacon (265) First Episode (000) Wade Wingler (49) Stephen's Favorite episodes Off the Cuff and This and That Pre and Post Show discussion Jeff and Jacob guest appearances Jason's Favorite episodes Site vs System (55) Mobile Friendly Drupal (72) Tim congratulations Jacob congratulations Favorite moments Dinners / Game nights First NEDCamp afterparty Meeting Rob at NEDCamp Seeing fans live Resources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dries_Buytaert The Night before Drupal Con https://talkingdrupal.com/079 Drupal 8 Cache System https://talkingdrupal.com/233 Dries' First Episode https://talkingdrupal.com/038 First Module of the week Episode 2 https://talkingdrupal.com/002 Last Module of the week Episode 154 https://talkingdrupal.com/154 Jono Bacon https://talkingdrupal.com/265 First! https://talkingdrupal.com/000 Wade Wingler https://talkingdrupal.com/049 First OTC https://talkingdrupal.com/019 Longest break https://talkingdrupal.com/017 https://talkingdrupal.com/218 Site vs System https://talkingdrupal.com/055 Mobile Friendly Drupal https://talkingdrupal.com/072 Stats 299 episodes (one missing) 206 5 hosts 5 guest hosts 120 guests Only person to be guest, guest host, and host (Jason) First Module of the week Episode 2 Module filter https://www.drupal.org/project/module_filter Last Module of the week Episode 154 Mailchimp # module of the week 116 First OTC Episode 19 5 total This and That 4 total Longest break between appearances 201 (17, 218) Jen Lampton Oct 2 2013, Jul 9 2019 Most Frequent guests (5 appearances) Kathy Beck Kevin Thull Jacob Rockowitz Tim Lehnen Recording Google hangouts Youtube over the air Zoom 2013 - 29 2014 - 49 2015 - 30 2016 - 34 2017 - 19 2018 - 34 2019 - 36 2020 - 42 2021 - 27 (so far) 37 Average Guests Dries Buytaertdri.es @Dries Hosts Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Jason Pamental - rwt.io @jpamental

Today we chat with our friend Jacob Rockowitz about the sustainability of the webform module and module maintainership sustainability in general. www.talkingdrupal.com/299 Topics Jacob's 5th appearance John got a new job! Jason launching 6 sites this week Nic went to the drive-in Jacob no more bike rides, just walks in the park Stephen finding Ansible useful Story: Recording episode 300 - get your recordings into show@talkingdrupal.com Elevator pitch for webform When did Jacob begin maintaining Webform What is sustainability? Open collective How to make Drupal more sustainable Ways to contribute Donations vs time contribution Why open collective? Is there an exit plan Resources https://www.jrockowitz.com/blog/webform-open-collective-funds-spent Open Collective Promotion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtlFTwZLKpc&t=1s jrockowitz.com Guests Jacob Rockowitz www.jrockowitz.com @jrockowitz Hosts Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Jason Pamental - rwt.io @jpamental

This week we are speaking to Jason Pamental, a design strategist, author, speaker, UX leader, technologist, an expert in web typography, and an Invited Expert on the W3C Web Fonts Working Group. He has worked with many organizations including Adobe, Audible, Condé Nast, GoDaddy, IBM—and given presentations and workshops at conferences all over the world. I also publish a newsletter on web typography. Responsive Typography Book https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/responsive-typography/9781491907085/ Jason's website https://rwt.io/ https://rwt.io/presentations https://rwt.io/resources --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/designhuddle/support

Today we are chatting with Matthieu Scarset about two modules he created to solve common Drupal problems. www.talkingdrupal.com/298 Topics Stephen - Moonlander Keyboard John - 300th Show call for videos Nic - Seeing friends again Jason - Launching 4 sites tomorrow for RI eCMS Matthieu - Moving back to Spain from France Menu Manipulator Solves language issue in core Hides non translated content Entity Media Usage No DB tables Essentially a view to show media or other entities on content type Can easily be disabled Approach to creating small modules that overlap with larger modules Prolific module creator User Info Block Twitter API Block Flag Rating Drupal version tag Resources https://www.zsa.io/moonlander https://drupal.org/project/menu_manipulator https://drupal.org/project/entity_media_usage https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/2466553 https://www.drupal.org/project/entity_usage Guests Matthieu Scarset @MatthieuScarset Hosts Stephen Cross - www.stephencross.com @stephencross Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Jason Pamental - rwt.io @jpamental

This is a talk from “beyond tellerrand // Berlin 2019”. Jason Pamental talking about “Dynamic Typography with Variable Fonts” at the sixth #btconf in Berlin.

Highlights · CSSCAMP Barcelona 2019 Таймкоды: 03:22 Interactive web animation with SVG by Cassie Evans https://youtu.be/8p5SDI4TNDc 13:40 App's Too Fast: How To Change The Pace For Better UX by Adam Argyle https://youtu.be/P11U3tUdk8g 22:30 When Houdini Met Goldblum by Oliver Turner https://youtu.be/aULlyfQOF18 34:55 Writing CSS Algorithms by Lara Schenck https://youtu.be/LPuLoB-eJYw 53:10 Dynamic Typographic Systems with Variable Fonts by Jason Pamental https://youtu.be/8BQaxNgkdUw 01:07:50 Mind over Matter: Optimize Performance Without Code by Stéphanie Walter https://youtu.be/tMteQurM-Ng 01:15:00 More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About Resource Hints by Harry Roberts https://youtu.be/APUJLTT9lUs 01:27:00 Building Socially-Inclusive Design Systems by Tatiana Mac https://youtu.be/KxT0EwGrXWU 01:29:30 Time Control in Web Accessibility by Sergei Kriger https://youtu.be/E__nqhAsGB8 01:35:22 потушили свет Мы в соцсетях: 1. Twitter: https://twitter.com/ProconfShow 2. Telegram: https://t.me/proConf 3. Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvasfOIImo7D9lQkb1Wc1tw 4. SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/proconf 5. Itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/by/podcast/podcast-proconf/id1455023466

In this episode we're talking about variable fonts. What are they, how do they differ from regular fonts, and how can they help in the design and performance of our websites? Drew McLellan talks to a font of knowledge on the matter, Jason Pamental.

In this episode we get to speak with Jason Pamental: Design Strategist, UX Leader, Typographer, Speaker, and Author. We discuss...

In episode #215 Jason Pamental joins us to talk about Component Based Theming. We also get an update from the Drupal Association with Tim Lehnen.  www.talkingdrupal.com/215 Topics CSS Layout: Subgrid lands in Firefox Nightly  What is component based theming? What problems is it trying to solve? Tools and technologies in play What is a component? What is the workflow? How is this integrated with the Drupal twig system? Does this impact the site build side of the project? Project by project decision or can be used for all projects?  Resources Jason’s website  Grids All the Way Down Brad Frost - Atomic Design Emulsify - Pattern Lab and Drupal Phase 2 - Particle  Ooomph Drupal 9 Webinar   Guest Jason Pamental  @jpamental  www.rwt.io Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan  

Long-time (since 1994) web design practitioner Jason Pamental, author of Responsive Typography from O'Reilly, is Jeffrey Zeldman's guest. For more than an hour, the two designers geek out over responsive typography, the history of type on the web, and the explosive creative potential of the new variable fonts. Multiple Masters. FF Meta. Storing the offsets of the curve points. The three second timeout. Why FOUT is a feature, not a bug. Compensating for the differences between the web font and the backup font. The tragedy of Typecast, the new hope of Figma. Adidas. Nick Sherman. Paula Scher. Mandy Michael. And more. Links for this episode:Hi, I'm Jason | Responsive Web TypographyResponsive Typography: Using Type Well on the Web: Jason Pamental: 9781491907092: Amazon.com: BooksVariable Fonts | Responsive Web TypographyThe evolution of typography with variable fonts: an introduction | Responsive Web TypographyAbout Jason | Responsive Web TypographyJason Pamental (@jpamental) | TwitterVariable Fonts Experiments - a Collection by Mandy Michael on CodePenThe New School: Year One — PentagramDavid Jonathan Ross (@djrrb) | TwitterBello | TypekitAn Event Apart: Orlando 2018 Special Edition Web Design & UX ConferenceFigma: the collaborative interface design tool.Design with web fonts in the browser - TypecastAmbientLightSensor - Web APIs | MDNJason Pamental – MediumJason Pamental on CodePenjpamental (Jason Pamental) · GitHubJason Pamental (@jpamental) • Instagram photos and videosvery able fontsBrought to you by: .TECH Domains (Visit the link and use the code TBWS to get 90% off on 1 & 5 year registrations).

Long-time (since 1994) web design practitioner Jason Pamental, author of Responsive Typography from O’Reilly, is Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest. For more than an hour, the two designers geek out over responsive typography, the history of type on the web, and the explosive creative potential of the new variable fonts. Multiple Masters. FF Meta. Storing the offsets of the curve points. The three second timeout. Why FOUT is a feature, not a bug. Compensating for the differences between the web font and the backup font. The tragedy of Typecast, the new hope of Figma. Adidas. Nick Sherman. Paula Scher. Mandy Michael. And more.

In episode 165 we re-unite with former co-host Jason Pamental to talk about front end development. www.talkingdrupal.com/165 Agenda CSS Grid Variable Fonts Firefox Dev Tools CSS Custom Properties & Calculations Resources Rachel Andrew’s Jen Simmons’ Layout Land YouTube channel Microsoft Variable Font Demo Site Axis-Praxis.org V-Fonts My Codepen Demos Variable Font and Future of Web Design Presentation Typography demo Lea Verou - talk on CSS variables Mozilla grid inspector docs Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan Jason Pamental - www.isovera.com @jpamental  

Jason Pamental is the author of Responsive Typography from O'Reilly Media. He recently won one of the Best Of awards for his web typography talk at the annual CSS Dev Conference 2017.

Jason Pamental is the author of Responsive Typography from O’Reilly Media. He recently won one of the Best Of awards for his web typography talk at the annual CSS Dev Conference 2017.

Jason Pamental is the author of *Responsive Typography* from O’Reilly Media. He recently won one of the Best Of awards for his web typography talk at the annual CSS Dev Conference 2017.

www.talkingdrupal.com/149 In episode #149 with Jason Pamental about the Typogrify module. Show Topics What is Typogrify? What does the Drupal module do? Who is this module for? Feature review Life as a module maintainer Resources Typogrify Module Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Guest Jason Pamental - www.isovera.com @jpamental

Welcome to the Secret Sauce, our short podcast that is typically around 10 minutes long and offers a quick tip on some small thing you can do to help your business run better. Account Manager Allison Manley is joined by our peer Jason Pamental, the Director of Design and Technical Strategy at Isovera in Massachusetts. Jason shares his thoughts about typography on the web, and how he got into it in the first place. TRANSCRIPT Allison Manley [AM]: Hi, and welcome to the Secret Sauce, brought to you by Palantir.net. This is our short podcast, up to 10 minutes, that offers a quick tip on some small thing you can do to help your business run better. I’m Allison Manley, an account manager here at Palantir, and today’s advice comes to us from Jason Pamental, the Director of Design and Technical Strategy at Isovera in Massachusetts. I caught up with Jason at DrupalCon, and he wanted to share with you his thoughts on typography on the web.  Jason Pamental [JP]: Hi, I’m Jason Pamental, I work at Isovera, a Drupal shop right outside Boston, Massachusetts, and I’m here to talk about web typography, and kind of how I got into it. Which, interestingly enough to me . . . I think about it when I’m here . . . I actually got into it because of people I talked to at DrupalCon. I started writing about web fonts when TypeKit came out in 2009. Studying graphic design many years ago, I always loved type, but couldn’t ever really do that much with it online. When TypeKit launched, I had already started using Drupal, and I was using TypeKit, and there were no modules. I found somebody had started one and I just got involved in that: I became the co-maintainer. And that was one of my first forays into using, actually getting into the contrib space.  But then it opened up into talking with a bunch of core developers at DrupalCon in Chicago. It was Al Stephan and Matt Tucker, and a couple other people, in a bar of course, at two in the morning. And I figured if I could convince them that web fonts were actually worth implementing, then I should really do something with that. Since then I’ve spoken about at DrupalCons on three different continents, and written a book about it, and absolutely love the way the sort-of art and science of using fonts fits with that same way that Drupal can kind of tie into how an organization works, and how you create websites, and that same sense of . . . that blend of strategy, and design, and technology all kind of in this one big platform. It’s been perfect. I spend a lot of time thinking about how to implement it, and teaching people how to do it and use web fonts and now I get to kind of spread that around with the rest of the technical team at Isovera too, which has been a lot of fun.  One of the things that actually struck me in how to use web fonts well was actually . . . one of the guys from Vox Media was talking about it in a session yesterday . . . he was talking about image performance, and font performance, and ads. One of the things he started talking about with font performance was something that I had actually written about a while ago: it was a way to balance that flash of unstyled text or unseen text when things are loading.  And that actually ties into a great way that Drupal 8 allows you to control the loading of Javascript. So it really comes down to when you’re loading the web fonts, the first thing that happens is the browser sees the listing for the web font in the CSS, and it has to think about whether or not that web font has loaded. Most of the time it hasn’t yet, so the browser default behavior is to not show anything. That’s actually how all the browsers behave now. The problem is that when you have all these other things going on in the loading process of a page from Drupal, if you’re also then waiting for a web font to load, you’re creating a pretty big delay, and it could be a significant delay in actually seeing any content show up on the page.  So the trick is to actually use something called the Web Font Loader, or something like it that will inject a class into the page. You set the font loading to be asynchronous using Javascript, and that’s something you can easily do now in Drupal 8 to control where the font, the script is executing. And in doing so, you get the unstyled text on the page right away by tapping the CSS into this web font loading class. Then you can style that fallback: you can set the line height, the font size, the letter spacing, all through CSS that is sort of scoped to the presence of that WF inactive class in the loading pattern.  And this is something that the guy from Vox was talking about using on The Verge, on the Vox Media site itself . . . it’s a loading technique that is the easiest thing in the world to set up. I actually have it built into a couple of frameworks and a theme that I maintain on Drupal.org called Beep Edition that will give you some pretty simple hooks to try this stuff out for yourself.  So that loading process  . . . getting the text on the screen right away . . . is another one of those ways to achieve better perceived performance and minimize the difference for people when they are loading stuff.  So if you’re interested in checking that stuff out, if you look at the theme that I have up for D7 and D8 on Drupal.org, Beep Edition, it has a lot of that stuff built in.  AM: Thank you, Jason, and so nice to meet you at DrupalCon New Orleans! For more great tips, follow us on Twitter at @palantir, or visit our website at palantir.net. Have a wonderful day!    

This week on the Boagworld show we are joined by Jason Pamental to discuss how the shape of our organisations impacts the users experience. For a transcript of this week's show and all links mentioned go to: https://boagworld.com/season/13/episode/1311/

Using real typefaces on the web creates amazing design opportunities. But how do you deliver web fonts while not messing up the rest of the experience? Jason Pamental joins Jen Simmons to talk about tips and tricks for optimizing web font performance.

Show Topics - Statistics  - Where does Drupal fit in Education - Why is Drupal a good fit - Examples of effective use of Drupal - Business model for development shops Module of the Week - Book Made Simple - https://drupal.org/project/book_made_simple Drupal 8 Topic of the Week - Discovering Changes in D8 - how to deal with issues. Links - http://funnymonkey.com/ - https://www.acquia.com/drupal-education - https://drupal.org/project/julio - http://funnymonkey.com/content/sally - http://w3techs.com/technologies/segmentation/tld-edu-/content_management - http://www.schoolyard.com/ Hosts - Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross - Jason Pamental - www.hwdesignco.com @jpamental - John Picozzi - www.RubicDesign.com @johnpicozzi  - Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan Guest - Bill Fitzgerald - @funnymonkey

Show Topics - Starting Point - Responsive - Mobile Friendly - WYSIWYG, In-line editing - Views integration - Admin forms  - Block as Entity - Configuration System  - Theming - Drupal 8 resources Module of the Week - MultiSelect - https://drupal.org/project/multiselec Links - https://drupal.org/drupal-8.0 Hosts - Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross - Jason Pamental - www.hwdesignco.com @jpamental - John Picozzi - www.RubicDesign.com @johnpicozzi  - Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

Our hosts interview web strategist, designer, technologist, speaker, writer, and teacher Jason Pamental! Recorded on 09/11/2013. Jason’s Links: H+W Design Instagram Twitter Things We Mentioned & Jason’s Work:

Show Topics - What is SASS  - Benefits  - How SASS works - What is Compass? - Key features - Getting started with SASS - SASS and Drupal Module of the Week - ThemeKey - https://drupal.org/project/themekey Links - SASS - http://sass-lang.com/ - Compass - http://compass-style.org/ - Why SASS - A List Apart - http://alistapart.com/article/why-sass - Book: Sass and Compass for Designers - http://www.amazon.com/Sass-Compass-Designers-Ben-Frain-ebook/dp/B00CITNQI4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1384973043&sr=8-1&keywords=sass+and+compass+for+designers - Mixins - http://compass-style.org/index/mixins/ - Drupal Nights - Jason’s giving a talk on ‘Thinking Responsively’ at BioRAFT: https://groups.drupal.org/node/373083 Hosts - Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross - Jason Pamental - www.hwdesignco.com @jpamental - John Picozzi - www.RubicDesign.com @johnpicozzi  - Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan - Tim Dickens - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @Tregonian 

Show Topics - BuildAModule Winner of the Week - Sending Mail - text and HTML - Email on System Actions with Rules - Subscription based emails - E-mail/Newsletter Signup Services Module of the Week - Style guide - https://drupal.org/project/styleguide Modules - SMTP Authentication Support - https://drupal.org/project/smtp - SimpleNews - https://drupal.org/project/simplenews - Mime Mail- https://drupal.org/project/mimemail - Notifications Module - https://drupal.org/project/notifications - Rules - https://drupal.org/project/rules - Views Rules - https://drupal.org/project/views_rules - Views Send - https://drupal.org/project/views_send - VBO - https://drupal.org/project/views_bulk_operations - Flag - https://drupal.org/project/flag - Mandrill - https://drupal.org/project/mandrill - Mailhandler - https://drupal.org/project/mailhandler Links - Webfonts in Email - http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/post/3897/ - Mail Chimp - http://mailchimp.com/ - Constant Contact - http://www.constantcontact.com/ - Campaign Monitor - http://www.campaignmonitor.com/ - Login Reminder Email - http://nodeone.se/en/reminders-for-inactive-users Hosts - Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross - Jason Pamental - www.hwdesignco.com @jpamental - John Picozzi - www.RubicDesign.com @johnpicozzi  - Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvanv

Show Topics - BuildAModule - Drupal Meetups - our experiences - Creating a Meetup - Tips and Ideas - Challenges Module of the Week - Auto Node Title - https://drupal.org/project/auto_nodetitle Links - Drupal Association Webinars - https://association.drupal.org/webinars Hosts - Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross - Jason Pamental - www.hwdesignco.com @jpamental - John Picozzi - www.RubicDesign.com @johnpicozzi  - Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

Show Topics - What is Views? - Installing Views - Basic Steps for creating a view - Some Advanced Settings - Features & Tips - Contributed Module - Resources Module of the Week  - CDN Module - https://drupal.org/project/CDN Resources - Drupal 7 Views Cookbook http://www.packtpub.com/drupal-7-for-views-module-cookbook/book  - Site Building with Views (subscription required) http://drupalize.me/videos/site-building-drupal-using-views - Views Askew (recorded webinar - free registration required) http://www.acquia.com/resources/acquia-tv/conference/views-askew-using-many-forms-drupal-views - Intro to Views for Drupal 7 Series - http://drupalize.me/series/intro-views-drupal-7-series  (first two tutorials free) Modules - Views - https://drupal.org/project/views - EVA - https://drupal.org/project/eva - Views Bulk Operations - https://drupal.org/project/views_bulk_operations - Views Accordian - https://drupal.org/project/views_accordion - Views PHP - https://drupal.org/project/views_php - Views Data Export - https://drupal.org/project/views_data_export - Better Exposed Filters - https://drupal.org/project/better_exposed_filters - Viewfield - https://drupal.org/project/viewfield - Calendar - https://drupal.org/project/calendar - HTML 5 Tools - https://drupal.org/project/html5_tools - Fences  - https://drupal.org/project/fences Hosts - Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross - Jay Lee - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @jayrlee - Jason Pamental - www.hwdesignco.com @jpamental - John Picozzi - www.RubicDesign.com @johnpicozzi  - Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

Show Topics - Design 4 Drupal - Working on local machine - Tools and software stacks - Update two Drupal systems (keeping things in sync) - Backup and Migrate - Team development - Source Code Management - Drupal configuration in dev environment - PHP Time Limit and Memory Size - Admin and test user accounts - Module of the Week - Devel Module - Drupal PVD - http://www.drupalpvd.org/ Hosts: - Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross - Jason Pamental - www.hwdesignco.com @jpamental - John Picozzi - www.RubicDesign.com @johnpicozzi  - Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan Modules: - Drush - https://drupal.org/project/drush - Features - https://drupal.org/project/features - Strongarm- https://drupal.org/project/strongarm - Backup and Migrate Module - https://drupal.org/project/backup_migrate - Boost Module - https://drupal.org/project/boost - Masquerade -  https://drupal.org/project/masquerade/ - Devel Module - https://drupal.org/project/devel  Links: - Design 4 Drupal - http://boston2013.design4drupal.org/ - Cygwin - http://www.cygwin.com/ - Virtual Box - https://www.virtualbox.org/ - MAMP - http://mamp.info - Coda - http://panic.com/coda/ - Tower - http://www.git-tower.com/ - Git - http://git-scm.com/ - Drush - https://drupal.org/project/drush