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Today we are talking about some things are on our mind including, The DOJ Accessibility ruling,Drupal CMS Event Recipes and Tooling for core development with our Hosts. We'll also cover @font-your-face as our module of the week. For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/476 Topics DOJ Accessibility Ruling Drupal CMS Tooling for core development Open University Resources Accessibility ruling PHPUnit testing https://www.drupal.org/docs/develop/automated-testing/phpunit-in-drupal/running-phpunit-javascript-tests https://github.com/ddev/ddev-selenium-standalone-chrome Drupal Events Recipes Guests Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu Hosts Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu Joshua "Josh" Mitchell - joshuami.com joshuami MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu Brief description: Have you ever wanted to add and manage web fonts for your Drupal site, directly within the admin interface? There's a module for that. Module name/project name: @font-your-face Brief history How old: created in May 2010 by Scott Reynen, but the most recent release was by Henrique Mendes (hmendes) of CI&T Versions available: 7.x-2.8 and 4.0.0 versions available, the latter of which support Drupal 9.4 and 10. Maintainership Actively maintained Security coverage Test coverage Documentation, but looks like it might be ready for a refresh Number of open issues: 48 open issues, 8 of which are bugs against the current branch Usage stats: 32,213 sites Module features and usage The module provides an interface to browse fonts from Google, Adobe, Typekit, and more License restrictions for fonts are clearly indicated When you find a font you want to use, you just click “enable”. You don't need to write any CSS or define a library, and it's easy to mix-and-match fonts from different providers. It can even make it easier to include your own local fonts The module includes submodules for the different font providers, so you enable the submodules based on where you want to use fonts from Then you can import the fonts for those providers, though you do need an API key to import fonts from Google The module does also have an API, so you can write your own modules to integrate with other font providers, or access the information about available fonts

Jeff Veen is design partner and head of platform at True Ventures. He brings his design and product experience, management skills of large-scale programs, and common sense knowledge of being a founder to the mission and initiatives of True's Founder Platform. Jeff was the vice president of design at Adobe after the company acquired Typekit, the startup he co-founded and ran as CEO. Jeff was one of the founding partners of the user experience consulting group Adaptive Path. While there, he led Measure Map, which was acquired by Google. INTERVIEW VIDEO:https://youtu.be/CeRkpEOrhWUCONNECT WITH JEFF VEENTwitter - https://twitter.com/veenLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreyveen/Podcast - https://www.relay.fm/presentableCONNECT WITH MELinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal 

Adobe Fonts Deep Dive Hands up if you enjoyed our conversation with DJR last week. It's proving a popular episode - thanks for listening, we hope you enjoyed it. This week we've got some fresh new links to talk about, and a nerd alert that segues from last week's interview. We've got some rather beautiful examples of 3D lettering created by a text to image AI generator, a riff on color fonts, UI chats, and a cool bespoke typeface out of Brazil. Our big nerdy chat this week is all about Adobe Fonts. The good, bad, and ugly of the evolution from Typekit to Adobe Fonts and how some of the mechanics work behind the scenes if you're a designer putting fonts into the catalogue. As usual, if you've seen something that you think we should talk about, let us know! Hit us up on Twitter or Instagram. You can find us @theleagueof on both platforms. PS. No podcast next week as we're taking some time off for the holiday weekend here in the US, but we'll still drop into your inbox to give you something to read between servings of pie.  Weekly Typographic Newsletter Links

Those of you who remember the glory days of web design, Web 2.0, Flash and ActionScript, when the FWA and Deviant Art were just getting started, and when everything felt new and exciting, almost like a Wild West of the Internet, then our next guest will make you smile. Elliot Jay Stocks is a legend in the web design world. He began working as a junior designer for EMI Music, which he admits was a lucky break thanks to his portfolio, which had all the websites he'd designed and built for friends' bands while studying Contemporary Media Practice at university. Some of you will remember Elliot's time spent at Carsonified – the website he designed for that agency went down in the web design hall of fame and today is still seen as a turning point for the industry. With all that experience, Elliot has done a ton of talks around the world and written for magazines such as Computer Arts and Dot Net. In 2010, he launched a print magazine called 8 Faces, dedicated to type, typography and lettering. Later on, he joined Typekit as Creative Director, which has since become Adobe Fonts. Then, after getting married and becoming a father, he and his wife Samantha launched their own magazine on the elusive idea of work-life balance. Today, he's working with Google on Fonts Knowledge, a library of original guides to the world of typography. Interestingly, he's been remote since 2013, working from his peaceful garden office near Bristol and where I was invited to sit down and chat about his journey so far. Surrounded by many keyboards and instruments, showing a clear passion for making music on the side, we wanted to know if Elliot ever sits still and whether side projects and experiments have always been a focus. We wanted to ask how he feels about working for Google. And whether he's managed to achieve that ultimate goal that we all dream of – to balance life with work and be happy. Season Four of The Creative Boom Podcast is kindly sponsored by Astropad Studio.

In today's episode, I speak with Jeff Veen. Jeff is a Design Partner and Head of Platform at True Ventures, where he spends his time helping founders create better products. He does this as an advisor, as well, for companies like about.me, Medium, and WordPress. Previously, Jeff was VP of Design at Adobe after they acquired Typekit, the company he co-founded and ran as CEO. Jeff was also one of the founding partners of the user experience consulting group Adaptive Path. While there, he led Measure Map, which was acquired by Google. During his time at Google, Jeff designed Google Analytics and led the UX team for Google's apps. Much earlier, Jeff was part of the founding web team at Wired Magazine, where he helped build HotWired, Web Monkey, Wired News, and many other sites. During that time, he authored two books: HotWired Style and The Art and Science of Web Design.We dive into ways in which trust is established at work and how it's necessary in order for people to be as creative – and successful – as possible. 

What does it mean to be a Gen-Z professional? It's about bringing your authentic self to the table in new ways and unapologetically searching for transparency and truth. In this episode, four Gen-Z Edelman colleagues chat about how they show up as their authentic selves—at home, at work and when interacting with brands.    TRANSCRIPT Dani Jackson Smith [00:00:01] It's who you are at work after hours and back at home exploring every layer, finding out what makes you uniquely you and letting that shine back out into the world. It's authentic 365, a podcast that takes a glimpse into how some of the most inspiring people among us express themselves and make magic happen. I'm your host, Dani Jackson Smith, VP at Edelman by day, community enthusiast and lover of the people Always Edelman released the power of Gen Z Trust and the Future Consumer Report. The data identifies Gen Z as the generation of sensibility, breaking through myths and assumptions that Gen Z is simply the influencer generation cancel generation or TikTok generation. On this episode of Authentic 365, our London co-host Jermaine Dallas will be leading a conversation on Gen Z and authenticity from time spent at home and work to interacting with brands and finding truth in a sea of opinions. You will hear personal stories direct from people that identify as Gen Z. Jermaine Dallas [00:01:09] My full Gen-Z guests are from four different countries, and they have their own experiences to share with us. So first of all is Ali Al, ultimately who is an associate research analyst from Edelman's research DXI, Ali is based in our Chicago office. Next up is Asha Jani. Asha is an Account Executive from Edelman's Brand team in London. Then we have Kristen Bettencourt's, who is an account executive and influencer marketing based in Toronto. Finally, we have Sebastian Nicholas Schifrin, who is a senior account executive in the Paris brand team. So thanks everyone for joining us on the show today. What do you expect from brands--going to come to you first, Kristen, what you expect from brands and what will influence the purchase decisions that you make, how you sort of like an activist when it comes to choosing the brands that you buy from? Or are you more driven by price? Kristen Bettencourt [00:02:10] Yeah, I think when brands create relatable content, I'm someone that's very into fashion and lifestyle content, and I make a lot of my influence based on like, let's say, I follow an influencer. I see something come up on my for you page that I really like, like, for example, like those in North Face jackets are really popular, really kind of all around the world and everyone's wearing them and you see everyone kind of build different outfits with them. So that's kind of what drives my purchase. And even though it is a little bit more pricey, but you can see it's very diverse and you can wear them with a lot of different outfits. So when I see brands create relatable content, I know that definitely drives it. I know when we work with influencers and we work with like a specific type of influencer for a campaign, and they're creating that content that really relates to their brand, for example, and are working with HP and we work with the tech influencer them just like really getting into detail and spitting the facts and reviewing all the details of the product. You can really see how engaged their audience is because they really want to see every detail and that you're hitting all the questions. Jermaine Dallas [00:03:22] So I know you do work with influencers a lot anyway, Kristen. But do you think the influencers really do matter then when it comes to two Gen-Z and making the purchases they make? Kristen Bettencourt [00:03:34] I definitely do think they have a big influence because I know it works on me. Sometimes I know sometimes I'll be very rash on my decisions, so I'll see something come up and I know it's going to maybe sell out right away because the specific influencer wore it. I know that and I'm not the only one in my friend group thought that happens. Do, and we do see a lot of ROI with our our brands and like them, getting really good engagement on their posts and their click through rates have been amazing. And so we've been seeing results and we've definitely been seeing positive feedback. Jermaine Dallas [00:04:09] Ali, are you driven by influences? Ali Almeflehi [00:04:15] I would have to say no. So I'm not particularly social media guy, right, like I don't spend so much time on social channels, but when I do, I'm looking for content that I particularly like like, you know, business content, entrepreneurship content, stuff like that. I will say just to kind of tackle, you know, how how to get to someone like me who is young but may not be necessarily on social all of the time. You know what you say on social media matters, and I'll give you an example. I love a brand who can crush communications with Gen Z, right? Like a brand who can show up authentically in, you know, these kind of social platforms or these little hubs and destroy communications. And I'll give you an example. I was recently I was recently in in Portugal. I just got back two days ago, right? And I went to I went to Spain for the weekend, kind of like in between. And I realized that I love Spanish, like I love Spanish. I need to finish learning Spanish. And the first brand that came to mind was Duolingo. And now we have a bunch of like Gen-Z people here, and they're shaking their heads because, you know, like, this is a brand that is absolutely destroying communications with Gen Z, and they're super authentic. You know, they're really, really funny. They're they kind of, you know, balance communicating with us in the way that we like. And so that influenced my kind of decision to use Duolingo to kind of learn vocabulary and stuff like that. So those are the things that drive my purchase decisions when I'm scrolling you and the little time that I use TikTok and I see a brand like, you know, in the comments being like, really funny or I see a brand, it's like, you know, helping someone, you know where there was a there was, you know, something was light was shedded on like a particular problem that young people, you know, brought to the surface and then a brand tackled that problem. I love that. I think that's amazing. Ali Almeflehi [00:06:21] So I love the lingo as well. I just find that that a passive aggressive when you miss a couple. Oh, my goodness. Asha, what about you? Is the is the the brand communications important or is it all about the products themselves? Asha Jani [00:06:37] I think for me, it's all about how a brand shows up consistent consistently across all aspects of life it touches, so not necessarily just what they're doing on social or what they do in their communications, but also, yeah, how that all marries up. So with this product, people through to what it's putting out on its platform is all about how that matter is open and is consistent with each other from one holistic brand point. And I think the big thing for me probably is is that people piece and the I think especially with, you know, such a pivotal and tumultuous time that we're living through at the moment with climate change and COVID 19. And, you know, like social justice, I think the key thing to remember is that Gen Z are watching what your how you're interacting with your people and that is influencing what we're going to buy from you now. And also what we're going to buy from you in 10 years time, in 15 years time. And I think for me in particular, with with influencers any just mentioned, I think that they'll probably impact me on sort of cheaper short term purchases, but for the long term, more expensive investments. I don't feel that they they influenced me on the day to day, which I think is interesting. So if I see an influencer, you know, pushing a piece of clothing, I might be more inclined to buy it. But in terms of more expensive purchases, like some some tech or even, you know, however many years time when I start to buy things for a house, for example, I'm not sure that influenced me that then it will be more about the brand as a whole. And yeah, I think that's where I stand on it. Jermaine Dallas [00:08:24] So I'm hearing that the influences are important in certain situations. So all the stuff that the broader comes in, especially elements of purpose as well. Nicholas, what what influences you when you shop? Sebastien-Nicolas Chiffrin [00:08:40] I think I'm going to have to thread it with Kelly on that on that one. I'm not sure that I I don't much get influenced by influencers to get a product. I don't think that I'm expecting brands to show up on certain things. I'm more expecting from myself to make sure that when I'm purchasing something that aligns with my beliefs and what I should wear, I should buy from. I mean, it's just that I'm not going to buy a product if I think that it does not fit with why I believe in the long term. But if I'm truly interesting in something like right now, I have a huge interest in my skin because of of the mask that we are wearing, and I'm seeing a lot of pimples going out and I'm like going crazy in the mirror every day and every night looking on a way to just remove them. So I started following a trend through and certain friends with skincare and beauty influencer just to have a better sense of What should I buy? And and it's not like influencer that I'm looking for, just like I'm searching for different sources and different people that like me, people that try the product. And that said, OK. And if I if I'm seeing like a lot of reviews that are that are saying that the product is the good one is a good one and you'll see the results that you're expecting, then definitely I will buy it. But it still has to fit with my beliefs. Like if if the brand are interested in diversity and inclusion, obviously that's going to be a huge part for me. And and and things like that. Yeah. Jermaine Dallas [00:10:29] So I suppose it's not just about influences for influences sake, it's more sort of looking for people's expertize and people's experiences as opposed to just getting the celebrity to say, Buy this product, please. It's got to have that sort of level of authenticity. Which brings me to my next question. Actually, this is authentic three, six five, after all. So I want to move on to talk about what our lives are like at work. I say I feel like I'm a Gen-Z. I'm not. I wish I still am. But what about authenticity? What does authenticity mean for you, especially in the way that you show up at work? And I'll ask that to you. First, ask you. Asha Jani [00:11:13] I think for me, it's incredibly important to bring my authentic self to work, and I think. Having only been in the workforce for the last two or three years, I'm still figuring out exactly what that means and and also having worked in two different companies. I think that means something different depending on the people that are around you. So my first company, I worked in an office that was, you know, 25 minutes from where I'd grown up my whole life. So I felt like all of the people around me or a lot of the people around me had similar experiences. The now working at Edelman, I've moved down to London and I do find that the people around me are probably less similar in terms of experiences and growing up than they were when I was when I was living at home. But I think in a way that means that I bring something very valuable in that I've had a different, you know, I've grown up in a different place and and in London as well, it being such a hub of, you know, multi culture, everybody and everyone brings something different. And that's something that I feel like it's really important to lean into, especially in the in the line of work that we do. And I think kind of from a Gen Z perspective, we are all really conscious and aware of the fact that we have a, you know, an important voice around the table at the moment and that people are really interested and invested in hearing exactly what we think. And so I think we just need to make sure that the authentic self that we're bringing to work, we're doing confidently and, you know, feeling empowered to share how we really think about something because that might have an impact on the work that we do and the ideas and creative concepts that are taken forward because our our our voice is important around the table at the moment. And I think it will be so painful. And so for me, it's it's important and it's important to do it confidently. Jermaine Dallas [00:13:07] Yeah. And and I suppose I mean, you actually wrote both of and kindred spirits in that we both moved from towns up north in the north of the country. So you go to the bright lights of the city, but I suppose everyone has that sort of some sort of challenge or that balance to to hold when it comes to work. So I'll do you have a sort of a home persona and work persona, do you mix the two? How does that manifest in your life? Ali Almeflehi [00:13:35] I try to show up the same like I my family knows me. Of course, they know more of me than, you know, I guess my coworkers do, but they kind of know me to be the same person, if that makes sense. And the reason that I try to do that is because I think it's I think it's too much work to not show up as yourself, right? Even if it's, you know, just kind of on the surface acting differently and not necessarily having conversations that you would have with people and interacting with people like you typically do. You feel it on the inside, right? Like you, you're it's it's somewhat conflicting, I think, to show up and not be yourself. And then the thing that I found is, you know, when you show up as who you are, particularly in your work place, it inspires people to be themselves in the workplace, right? And you know, I just I love my team. They know me. I'm like, I'm like a very I'm like a social butterfly, right? Like in the house and, you know, here at work and. Yeah, I think it just. It's just like it's just who we are like, it's easy, it's it's, I think, a little bit difficult sometimes for people to it to show up, to work as as themselves for fear of judgment. But what you find is when you actually show up to work authentically and you know, you get to inspire people to be themselves better work is done right. So it's it's a super cool thing. Jermaine Dallas [00:15:03] What about you, Nicholas? Do you ever feel like you can't be yourself fully at work? Sebastien-Nicolas Chiffrin [00:15:09] I yes. I mean, no, it's weird because, you know, in a way, I do think that I'm trying to be all of the time me. But sometimes that is a different version of myself when I'm at work because I can be a little bit crazy sometimes with my friends. So definitely I'm going to have to be a little bit more concrete when I when I'm at work. But what I loved in the Paris office is that it kind of is that tried to get people with personality. So it's not that much difficult for you to be yourself and within the office. Everyone is so much inspiring. And I mean, you can you can feel you can feel everyone's energy all of the time and the work and within the workplace, we have so much little time together, so it's not really difficult, even if you kind of have to be and a slight down version of yourself when you were with your clients. But when you when you wave your coworkers, it's it's easier because they tend to become your friends in a sense. So it's not that hard. But I do. From time to time, I change my personnel just to be to do to play the part. I think. Sebastien-Nicolas Chiffrin [00:16:36] Kristen, is there a work, Kristen in her home, Kristen? How were the two different? Kristen Bettencourt [00:16:40] Yeah, I definitely think I try to bring my most authentic self to the table, but I think especially on boarding virtually, I haven't been able to fully kind of show my full personality. I know, like you kind of have like 30 minute meetings or you have brand team meetings that are team wide, but I feel like I haven't been able to fully kind of give my full, authentic self. But while I have those little snippets, I try to be completely myself. And like Ali said, just honestly, you just you get more work done when you're yourself and and you just gets to communicate people the way you want to do it makes you want to show up to work when you're pretending to be someone that you're not it, it kind of makes you uncomfortable and it's just not comfortable. And yeah, I just think it's it's difficult online. So I kind of just try to make the best of it. And I hope that everyone thinks that I'm being my authentic self. Jermaine Dallas [00:17:48] That's brilliant. Ali Almeflehi [00:17:49] Just to add a point, Jermaine real quick. I wonder if, like I think the thing, I think work and life have been the waters have been kind of muddied a little bit, right. Like we sit in our homes, we open our computers and we're already at work, right? And so I wonder if because that's the case there is there's a bit of a push to be yourself a little bit more because you're already working from your own home, right? You're a little bit more comfortable than you would be, you know, walking into an office. Sometimes you I'll take meetings, I'll run downstairs, I'll be on my phone, I go grab a cup of coffee, talk to my mom, sometimes put myself on mute, right? And I wonder if that's that kind of thing is pushing people to be themselves a little bit more just out of, you know, like a place of comfort. The other thing is is it's it's kind of hard to be inauthentic now because everyone's watching, right? Like, everything is so open in this generation. I don't know if you saw the research, but like 70 percent fact check what you say and will unfollow you if you're being untruthful, right? Like this is a generation that like searches for transparency and truth and all of these different things. And so because that's the case, there's a little bit of social pressure to to be you or social pressure. And kind of we have like a social anxiety because people are watching if you're not being you right? And so I just wanted to add that I think it's it's cool and it's something that's a little bit different and definitely probably brought on by the pandemic or exacerbated by the pandemic. Kristen Bettencourt [00:19:26] Can I just jump in there? Yeah, sure. I think it's funny that you kind of brought that up, too, because I do know a few influencers personally, just from friends and growing up. And I do know, like a lot of it's been kind of known lately that people are coming out that on the internet, like they're showing like their best versions of themselves. And obviously, you do have the influencers where they show you every detail, but they do say it's kind of hard to kind of disconnect from the two because you're showing your whole life on the internet. So sometimes it gets hard because you're constantly showing people like the positive sides, all your wins. Meanwhile, like behind the scenes, like, obviously you're human, you're going through normal things. So sometimes differentiating like you're obviously not going to put your failures all the time. Of course, there's like influencers like Remy Batali, but she kind of blew up on TikTok and she she's known for doing her plus size like outfit reviews, and she blew up just showing like her most authentic self, like even behind the scenes, like her struggles with mental health. So it was really cool seeing that. But for the majority, I know there's a lot of influencers that do struggle like behind the scenes, but on the surface level they look like amazing, like everyone thinks they have the best life. So it's kind of like a fine line. Like, obviously you're going to go fight like trusting what you see on the internet and you're going to see a lot of people posting the same things. But sometimes there's a fine line on the internet with like, who's really like showing you everything? And like, can you really trust that influencer and all of that as well? It's what I've noticed do, and even just working on the platform, sometimes I find when I'm constantly on Instagram and TikToks, I work heavily on it for being an influencer marketing. I need to disconnect after like, it's very, very hard. I find it it. It definitely affects my mental health more than you think sometimes. But just finding that disconnect is something that is very important. Jermaine Dallas [00:21:22] Ali, you made an interesting point about it possibly being an area of comfort working from home that you have that sort of that connection that is the familiar with you. And which I think is interesting because one thing that I hear a lot, especially from Gen Z, is that sometimes it can be difficult to acclimatize to a new business when you are not based in the office. I'm going to come to you, Ashley, because I know you've joined Edelman at a time when you went straight away going into the office all the time. So what were the expectations for you going into the world of work and coming into Edelman, where you weren't able to be in the office straight away? Asha Jani [00:22:02] Yeah, I think one of the main reasons that I joined Edelman was because I really craved the kind of collaboration, creativity, the teamwork and those sorts of, you know, real people, elements of the job where we were going to be working closely together. And yeah, I joined in in last March. So that was right at the height of lockdown in the UK, and I was probably working at home before I went into the office at all for four or five months. And you know, it's all a point, I think. Working from home and trying to get your personality across virtually is something that I found challenging. And again, I think it is that the balance of really wanting to make your mark on a team, but also sometimes challenging people or coming up with new and different ideas can can be slightly more daunting when you're virtual. And you know, you have to really kind of make an effort to cut through the noise rather than you saying across the office. And, you know, conversation just happens a little bit more naturally that, you know, you're not having to unmute yourself and try and jump in. But to me, I think I really came into my own at Edelman as soon as I saw going into the office. And that's something that I noticed was huge and something that I didn't really think about too much before I joined Edelman, and I didn't think that working from home, which would be an issue and it wasn't an issue, but I have just found that I enjoy it so much more when I'm in the office and were able to have those collaborative conversations and creative brainstorming and things a lot in person. It's just something that happened so much more naturally. But then equally, I wouldn't give up working from home completely. I think, you know, flexibility and the ability to choose when and where you work has this huge benefits, I think for me. And as a young person, I definitely crave that the social aspect of of the office. But I also appreciate the ability to be able to work from home. Make your working environment work for you. Jermaine Dallas [00:24:17] Nicholas, what about you? How have you found working from home for so much of the early part of your career? When a lot of people would be wanting to be in the office as much as possible to learn things firsthand from people? Sebastien-Nicolas Chiffrin [00:24:32] Well, to be honest, it was a really difficult experience because I was alone in my apartment in Paris, I mean, out there. So it was it came down a little bit hard on me. So I was really, I wouldn't say depressed, but not far from that because being away from my friends, my family for such a long time. And then I had the ability just to to move to the countryside with some friends. So we were like for a long time, seven of ourselves together in a place, enjoying ourselves for seven months and then go back to my place all alone so that that was like a really depressing moment for me. And I started meditating things to say, which does not sit well with my personality. I'm going to say that for sure that for the first time, for the first lockdown, I thought I tried meditating and I think I closed my high for 10 second and listening to to a YouTube video on how you should meditate. And I think about 10 seconds when I was, I said, OK, no, that's not for me. I'm going to stop. So I try sports. So I was like, I was doing a lot of sport in my apartment. Every at noon, every day. I had somewhat a coach that was helping me trying to get fit for the summer because I didn't know if I was going to be able to to get to the beach. So some of these guys do that at all and always Jermaine Dallas [00:26:08] good to be prepared just in case, Sebastien-Nicolas Chiffrin [00:26:11] just in case. And then I think I downloaded the application that Edelman provided for everyone and which has been of tremendous help. I'm going to say just that because it helped me started just to have a better sense of how you should take that in so that it's OK to feel depressed. But you can have you can exercise yourself in a way that you train your brain on to seeing the positive outlook on your life. Early morning and when you go to bed. So that was definitely of a huge help to go through that. Ali Almeflehi [00:26:53] And then, Sebastian, if you don't mind me asking if you don't mind me asking, Did you work in the office prior to the pandemic? Where have you been at Edelman long enough to work in the office? Sebastien-Nicolas Chiffrin [00:27:05] Yes, I mean, hours before so. So it was kind of hard for me just to. I was I was in the office for three years because before the pandemic, so and so I spend almost a lot of time getting to know all of my coworkers working on their accounts very closely on the same office, I mean, within the same offices. So yeah, that was that was the hardest part because I knew my coworkers and I knew how how fun it was to go to work. Ali Almeflehi [00:27:34] And so now that you have experienced both? Which do you prefer? Because I think I think this is going to be this is so awesome to explore because many of us don't have a point of reference as to what work was like prior to the pandemic. Asha, myself, I don't know. The three of us here don't know what it was like to go in and work with your coworkers in person. But now that you've experienced both, what do you prefer and why? What are the what are the like? Just talk about that a little bit, if you don't mind. Sebastien-Nicolas Chiffrin [00:28:05] I think I love a good balance of first. I'm not going to say why. I mean, yes, I do it. I'm going to say, I think that's a morning when I'm not just like heavy on going to work, you know, I mean, it's not that. It's just that sometimes when you just get out of bed, it feels like, OK, I'm going to take that call from from my, from my desk and from my. I mean, it's going to be just easier for me because in terms of the mental space that I'm in, I don't feel like going. I'm taking the train and seeing a lot of people, and I'd rather be just by myself. And sometimes when you were at your place, you can scream at your computer and no one will be mad at you. So it's also easier just to express yourself in some ways that you won't be able to when you were in the office, to be honest. And at the same time, I do love my coworkers, and I do enjoy the times that we get to spend together. I have also a lot of people that I have to train, some interns and such. So it's it's not easy just to share. Your knowledge and just to explain people things over the phone over and over and over things, even if it's a great platform just to that has been a tremendous help. But I think sometimes it's also viewed to be in the office just to connect with the people that you're working with. Jermaine Dallas [00:29:34] Exactly. Yeah. Before we get out of here, I want to go onto and quickly talk about what is truth and how we define truth. So I'm Ali. You mentioned in the Gen-Z research that Edelman conducted that the majority of people think that 70 percent of Gen Z fact checked, fact check even, the information that they receive. So I'm going to start with you, Kristen. How do you define truth and whose opinions do you take on board? Kristen Bettencourt [00:30:02] And yeah, I think it definitely comes, comes and goes. For me, I feel like I'm just really heavily the influencer because I'm always on social media. So that's where I fact-checked a lot of my things. I feel like I go straight to the comments and then I will see like hashtags and see if there's other reviews on it. I definitely want to. I do like my research. I do heavy on my research because I know that sometimes obviously there's situations where influencers were post something and they don't necessarily use that. There's always occasions where that comes up, but I go straight to the comments. I look at what people are giving feedback if they say, Oh yes, I've tried to do its work great on me, and then I look at the hashtags and see if other influencers have use it, or even just regular people that aren't influencers that are just posting about it, and they're just sharing their honest feedback and reviews. That's how I kind of base my feedback off of. And then obviously, I have my my girl group chats I like I'll. I'll kind of check in and we'll chat and see if anyone has tried it or they have any feedback, too. That's kind of where I check most of my stuff just because I'm just so heavy on social media, unfortunately. And that's how fortunately, but fortunately. But yeah, that's where I fact check a lot of my stuff Jermaine Dallas [00:31:18] and I'm going to and finally ask you that same question, Asha. Where do you get your truth from? Asha Jani [00:31:25] Yeah, I think what Kristen said, that was really, really interesting because from the Gen-Z research, I also thought it was really interesting that 84 to 88 percent of us find inspiration from our friends and family, and I think that truth is something that aligns with inspiration in that way because I think I totally agree that like both inspiration and truth, the first place that I would look to discuss that with is probably friends and family. And then like, those conversations in that discourse helps me inform where the next step might be. I go to get my truth and I think similarly to Kristen, I'm a huge researcher and I wasn't necessarily thinking of truth in terms of like influences and reviews and that sort of thing. But because you mentioned it, I'm a huge foodie and if I'm going to go on a holiday, for example, and I'm looking at places to eat or drink when I'm away, I will read realms and realms of reviews. Mm-Hmm. And I read the comments of Typekit in on Twitter. And I think that that's just about Gen Z, you know, rigorously fact checking and researching. I really I really do agree with that. I think it's almost second nature to us that if we see something on social media or in the press, that we will then type in on Google Typekit and on Twitter, ask our friends about it. Even if it doesn't feel like we're fact checking, we're probably doing it indirectly through having conversations with people every day. And then I guess, yeah, I think the truth also is just something that comes from in our line of work. I guess like reading around the topic and making sure that we are informed and we have those like differences of opinion. So that's something that I definitely do as well is that if I've read one opinion on something, I actually try and seek out the opposing opinion and then make my own call on where I sit within the spectrum. Mm hmm. Ali Almeflehi [00:33:30] Yeah, I I I don't think it's a coincidence that we're all this way. Also, by the way. I don't think it's a coincidence. I think I think it's super cool that young people are finding their way to the truth. And the reason I don't think I don't know if any of you read the recent Edelman 20 22 Trust Barometer report, but misinformation and disinformation is at an all time high, right? It seems like in a world where truth is scarce, we're trying to search for the breadcrumbs and figure out our way to actually what is right, what is correct, what is. And I think it's super cool, but I don't think it's a coincidence. Jermaine Dallas [00:34:09] Yeah. Well, I think that's all the time. We have to really appreciate your time. So, Kristen, Asher, Allie and Nicholas, thank you so much for joining us on authentic three six five. If you want to find out more about the Gen Z research, you can find all the information at Edelman.com Dani Jackson Smith [00:34:28] And that's a wrap for this episode. Many thanks to you for walking with us. And until next time, keep it authentic all day, every day. Shout out to our team behind the scenes Faith McIver, Emma Marie MacAfee, Trisch Smith, Denise Busch, Sarah Neil, Pamela Blandon, Emma Dowling, Ryan VandenBosch. Authentic 365 is brought to you by global communications firm Edelman.  

The science of indoor air quality UK air quality expert Dr. Andy Dengel on an invisible threat Andy is currently Director of Environment in the Building Technology Group at BRE. He gained a PhD and postdoctoral research experience in chemistry at Imperial College London, publishing extensively on the structures, properties and catalytic oxidising abilities of transition metal complexes. Andy then spent the next 16 years of his career working in and managing contract analytical laboratories. Starting with drinking water analysis, this took in food and consumer product analysis at a Public Analyst laboratory and latterly the operational/site management of a growing suite of contaminated land/water laboratories for ALcontrol. Since joining BRE in 2006 Andy has led the IAQ and Chemical Assessment teams, and in 2008 also assumed overall responsibility for the other BRE environmental engineering and consultancy teams (HVAC, Air Pollution, Lighting and Environmental Noise) and in 2013 he became Deputy to the Director of BRE's 70-strong Building Technology Group. This bio work constitutes a fair-use of any copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US copyright law. View original source here: Andy Dengel   Episode transcript: The transcription of this episode is auto generated by a third-party source. While Microshare takes every precaution to insure that the content is accurate, errors can occur. Microshare, Inc.  is not responsible for any errors or omissions, or for the results obtained from the use of this information. Michael Moran [00:00:11] This is manifest density. Hello, everyone, and welcome to this edition of Manifest Entity, your host Michael Moran here, and we are here to explore the intersection of COVID 19 global business and society. And unfortunately, war, which has now entered the picture in Ukraine. Manifest density is brought to you by the global smart building in ESG data company Microshare. Unleash the data and today I speak with. I'm pleased to have with me, Dr. Andy Dingell, who is the director of the environment team at Barry, which is the kind of leading building research establishment in in the UK and has global reach and influence. Andy, welcome to the podcast.   Andy Dengel [00:01:13] Hello, Mike.   Michael Moran [00:01:17]  So, Andy, tell us a little about yourself and your work on indoor environments at spirit.   Andy Dengel [00:01:29] Yeah, sure. So I started off as a chemist, so my doctorate was in chemistry and then I went on to do a lot of analytical chemistry. In the last 15 years, I've been at body building research establishment and I've headed up what we loosely call prairie environment, but really, really concerns the indoor environments that we find ourselves living and working in learning in. So it's everything from indoor air quality through to ventilation and H-back and also lighting noise and other other parameters that can affect us when we're in the buildings. And in that we we do various types of work. We do a lot of research, both collaborative research but also commercial research. And there's R&D for people with products in this area. And we also do advisory work and sometimes to street testing of other products or materials to do the indoor air quality.   Michael Moran [00:02:25] So we were talking before the podcast began about the, you know, really new impetus that air quality has gained throughout the pandemic. Obviously, a virus travels through an airborne virus. It's going to be something that alarms you a bit about. The space you're in makes you wonder about what you might have considered a fairly neutral space. But air quality goes back well before the pandemic. Air quality as a as a capability, as a concern in indoor spaces. Can you give us a little background on where the science has come from?   Andy Dengel [00:03:06] Yes, absolutely. I mean, we've been involved here before and before I joined even the last twenty five years when he was some of the the IQ issues that come about and of course, traditionally equality came to the consciousness in terms of external air quality, air pollution and those sort of things. But then gradually over the last maybe 10, 15 years, people start to think, Well, we actually spend more time indoors. Some people spend all of their time indoors. And often they are. The indoor air quality indoors has a great, great potential to affect the health and well-being. So I say the last 15, 20 years, we've seen a gradual increase in awareness, I'd say, of indoor air quality. And of course, the internet and social media really take that to another level in a lot of people start to know, you know, listen to podcasts like they say they they can read things, they can access things and it's getting more on the agenda. And I think before the COVID pandemic, we were starting to see a lot of organizations, whether it be schools, medical corporate offices, whatever. So into place a bit more emphasis on the health and well-being of occupants. Because after all, if your employee isn't happy in their indoor environment, they won't perform as well. They may become ill and they may become absent. So we were starting to see that before the for the pandemic, but I think the pandemic has really thrust it even more into the spotlight.   Michael Moran [00:04:36] I want to look state state pre-pandemic for just a moment and talk about some of the research and some of the case studies that were were floating around before anybody really had it focused on COVID 19. I mean, a lot of these things had to do with preventing absenteeism, preventing the the ill effects of CO2 buildup, which which make people drowsy and toward the end of the day, for instance, could really hit productivity in a workforce. And then there was, you know, the pure health care or the health issues which which had to do with things like the humidity and temperature mix, which can affect the spread of disease. What are some of the factors that go into the pure? Air quality concerns that predated the pandemic.   Andy Dengel [00:05:31] Yeah, so I think a lot of what we used to do used to be reactive in a way which is a pity where people would contact us when they were experiencing problems enough in an office or a school or hospital. And normally that would be one or two or more people experiencing irritation or discomfort or ill health. Then, of course, you have this sort of psychosomatic factors in the so-called sick building syndrome where, you know, open plan always if three or four people become uncomfortable and attribute that to the indoor environment that can start to to spread. So we were starting to do that sort of work and we were developing protocols ready to go in and assess indoor air quality in indoor environments. And we often call it Iizuka, you know, taking everything into account. But there weren't many standards or guidelines for people to hang their hats on as such. There were a lot of schemes, so voluntary schemes such as Brianna, where you can raise a building for a whole load of factors, one of which is air quality ventilation, but very little proactive stuff. But we had, you know, started to look at ways of, yeah, for a reasonable amount of money to be able to go in and assess what's important. And that, first and foremost, would be things, as you said, the CO2 levels, the level of ventilation and also the effects that can come from, you know, too much ventilation or too little things like dampness or on the other hand, dryness of air is too dry and then particular sources of indoor pollutants bosses, for instance, which can make those effects, you know, two out of nine out of 10 people, but one person could be sensitive and have problems. So we were starting to look at that, but really don't know. So it was one to one basis, but I think we had the advent of more technology is going to thrust us all towards a point where there's more measurement going on.   Michael Moran [00:07:30] And you hold that thought we're going to take a break to hear from our sponsor. There will be a little dead air here, and I'll come back. OK, I'm back with Dr. Andy DeAngelo of the British I'm sorry, the building research establishment in the UK. Doctor, is there a. Kind of secret weapon for indoor air quality. We've now seen, as you were mentioning before, we took the break. Technology has really evolved. We've had a pandemic which certainly raised the awareness of the concerns that might be extended in indoor air. But I know iOttie, of course, allows for a certain amount of collection of data. But what's it seems like? There's a real challenge in connecting all the various elements that can affect indoor air quality into a responsive single unit. Is that about is that right?   Andy Dengel [00:08:33] Yes, because it can be quite complex, you know, on the level of CO2, that's reasonably straightforward. I mean, but even then, you know, there can be other factors. But you know, there are so many factors. So it really all comes down to something it a balance between. Energy efficiency, I'd say, in ventilation, because more and more we're seeing very airtight buildings relying on mechanical ventilation. And if that doesn't work properly or isn't designed properly, you can have problems. Of course, some places don't have that luxury and they'll still be problems because there's not the opportunity for the cross ventilation, etc. So to the whole thing really makes it quite difficult to know which premises you should look at. And there are certainly some important markers, but I think where is the the iottie and the ability to share data and collate data and do things with data is really going forward. The technology to have really robust and reliable sensors to do continuous monitoring is a little bit behind when it comes to economies, you know, in terms of financial economy, because really the more you spend, obviously the better you you'll be. But you know, some of the sensors do have limitations, and I think those limitations need to be at least understood before data is collected.   Michael Moran [00:09:59] You know, we had we've had several experiences at Microshare where clients have gone ahead and deployed air quality monitors, IoT monitors. And discovered the air was less than ideal, and their decision, rather than to take remedial steps, was to remove the air quality monitors and pretend like they'd never found this out. It's not a very progressive way to approach it, obviously. But is that a common problem? Is there is the is the reaction so complex that you find some people would just rather not know?   Andy Dengel [00:10:42] Yes, I think I think it's all about, first of all, deciding, you know, what you're trying to do and who you're going to share the data with and how much data because and then more importantly than anything, are you prepared to act on it? I think you just touched on the worst case scenario there they're acting on. It is removing the measurement. But it is important. And I think, you know, all sorts of organizations at the moment, I think, are wrestling with this problem in that, you know, if they're going to do this and they do, and if you do either well or you don't do so well anyway, there'll be lots of data. And if you're if you're sharing that with a with a lot of people, there's a lot of different little subjectivity. People will look at different things and you've got a problem. If, for instance, a red light starts flashing when there's, for instance, voices are deemed to be high and so on. So we're thinking, well, wait a minute, the air quality is not good. What's my employee or my landlord going to do about it when in fact, it could have been a false positive? Because, you know, for the sort of sensors we're talking about, they're not always as selected as he might wish. And things can actually trigger trigger responses. So I think there's a bigger piece here in terms of, you know, really thinking. Do I want to do this? How are we going to do it and how are we going to share data are all prepared to go the whole way and then work with the the people who have effectively been being monitored to try to show that you want to do something about it?   Michael Moran [00:12:17] You know, there was a pretty well-traveled story a few months back in the New York Times, where parents of children in the New York City Public Schools were sneaking air quality monitors into their lunchboxes and backpacks and then showing up at the Parent Teacher Association meetings and raising hell about the air quality in the schools. Is that is that indicative of what you think the COVID pandemic has done to people's realization about all this?   Andy Dengel [00:12:52] I think so. I think it is a real possibility and I say these things are quite affordable. You know, you can buy some some of some of these things, single parameter things for maybe under $500, I don't know. But even but in our in our experience, even ones that cost multiple hundreds of dollars or pounds, we'll still have limitations in and a lot of cases simply because the parameters that they are trying to measure are very complex in themselves. I think CO2, the sensors there, they're much more mature and at the end of the day, you're looking for one one, one compound or molecule. But if you're looking for bio seeds and you have a sense of the claims, look at total doses or tbose. That's pretty much impossible for that sort of sensor because there are so many different viruses that will give different responses. So it's a very complex parameter and similar.   Michael Moran [00:13:45] Can you define viruses? I don't think most of the audience will understand what that   Andy Dengel [00:13:48] yes, VOCs, volatile organic compounds. So it's a whole whole range of different chemicals that have to volatile always will be big vapor at room temperature. And they include anything from something like petrol. So if you think of petrol, that's a good example. You can smell the volatile organics and petrol go right through to lots of things we use in in our in our homes and in our offices, the cleaning products. And through to the furnishings of paints and varnishes. Air fresheners, you know, people may have may use plug in air fresheners. They emit VOCs, so there's a whole whole range of seasons. Some are potentially hazardous. Some are potentially irritable. Some won't be. But the point is in anyone's face, there may be dozens of different voices and so sensitive to look at so-called tbo AOC is really oversimplifying.   Michael Moran [00:14:50] Does there in any way virus come into this, I mean, things that travel through the air as well, which may not have a particular. Telltale odor sensors, are there sensors that can actually find these kind of things in the air?   Andy Dengel [00:15:11] Yeah, we don't know. I don't think at the very top level as we speak, people probably working on ways to, for instance, you know, to to detect COVID 19 in the air, for instance. I think there's been work done on surfaces, but the problem is you're really dealing with surrogates in a way it's a part of the particles. Viruses are particles in very small particle size range, which we call ultra fine particles. So if you can have a sense of it looks for ultra fine particles, that's particles under one micron. So. You know, there's an indication that if you can remove if, for instance, an air purifier or a piece of ventilation reduces the amount of ultrafine particles, then it's a pretty it's a pretty good assumption that you will be doing something to either remove or reduce the amount of virus particles in the air. But as we stand at the moment, there's nothing that I know certainly to be able to do in reducing buildings to actually sense virus particles. So you're really into the realms of, you know, looking at the closest surrogate, which in this case would be small particles.   Michael Moran [00:16:22] And there's, you know, one of the things I wanted to talk to you about is the reaction to an indication that air is substandard. So the Environmental Protection Agency in the U.S. has a as a kind of basic best practices guide on its website. And they they run through things like the obvious, which are, you know, open a window, you know, down to, you know, essentially having that tough conversation with your HVAC company to see whether there's something they can do with it. The one thing that stood out for me was they have a very they're they're not saying that air purifiers, even those with HEPA filters are particularly effective and they're not, you know, they're not saying they're useless, but it's not part of their recommended reaction to poor air quality. Why is that?   Andy Dengel [00:17:24] I think you know that on top of those, of course, with the things that you probably thought about before resource control, you know, there are things you could do in terms of hopefully reducing sources of air pollution, but coming onto the things like filters and other air purifiers. I think it's because they're all good in principle, but they all have to be used properly and sited properly and maintained properly. And I think that that's the thing where we're lagging behind. So, for instance, the HEPA filters need changing every so often. If you're going to sell air purifiers that are actually using Nuvei or Ozone or combinations of those things to change the chemistry of the air, then you've always you've got problems that you might produce, byproducts you don't want. And certainly in the UK, the Sage Group, which advise the government on COVID and other issues, are saying be very careful before you tax things simply because. There's a chance that you may you may cause other problems. We'd like to see more standards for these sort of things, both filter systems and they have HEROFi assembly so that people can have some confidence but know that their only one. I think only one part of the armament or the armory, if you like to combat bad air quality, I think it's the combination has to be. Things like opening windows, if you can, but then being careful, you don't do so if there's pollution outside. There's a lot of occupant behavior and the way people use buildings. There's a bit about source control. I think if all those fail, then of course you do need to start. First of all, monitoring to some extent and then using some sort of, you know, ventilation or air purification technology on top of what's already there. But I think it's I'm not saying it's the last resort. But I think there's a there's a sort of a hierarchy of things you might want to try and do before you got to that to that extent, because it can be hard to do it in large buildings and complex buildings.   Michael Moran [00:19:26] And you mentioned something interesting the the open the window thing. You know, obviously you've got to be selective. If you're in Beijing, you don't open the window. There is, I mean, early in my career, I would say an Associated Press reporter in a city in the U.S., Newark, New Jersey, not notable for its clear air. And in fact, the State Department of Environmental Protection noted that the place where the Associated Press put the bureau, which was at the confluence of some rail yards, the runways at Newark airport and three interstate highways was measured as the worst air in the state. Luckily, because of the Associated Press penchant for trying to save money, we used to say You can't spell cheap without AP. We had no windows anyway, so we couldn't open the windows. But no, but I can totally relate to that because you would walk outside the door and realize that you were surrounded by particulate matter. You know, that brings up an interesting question what is someone to do in an environment which exist all over the world? Places like Mumbai and Beijing and many industrial cities where the air quality outside is is almost certainly worse than whatever you're experiencing inside is. How do you unravel those kind of conundrums?   Andy Dengel [00:20:55] And I think that is the big problem when it comes to, you know, just having to shut the windows and knowing when you can open the windows. In other words, almost monitoring or, you know, when there's a time when there's no air pollution outside, so you get some ventilation. But then the rest of the time just keeping it out. I think that that's the big problem here. It was different. All buildings are different. All localities are different. And then, you know, we have the other problem where people are encouraged to open windows, but because they're in high storey buildings, the health and safety regulations say you can only open the windows 10 centimeters. So the opportunity for sort of cross ventilation and proper ventilation is very small because it is only a very small OpenTable amount of windows, so it really is, you know, it can be a varied problem, depending where you are. But it definitely comes down to, I think, more public awareness. And some of that is out there on the internet. But I just we we we feel it needs to be more targeted and almost brought into school curricula because it's such an important thing. You know, bad air quality, as we know, can have the potential to cause health effects, and some of the worst damage can be done to respiratory systems, you know, when people are young. And some of that, some of those things that they may experience due to bad air quality and then, you know, go and live with them for the rest of their lives. So there's some very good work done in this country in the UK by the Royal College of Physicians and also the Royal College of Pediatricians and Child and Child Health. Big studies looking at, you know, scientific indoor air quality and air quality and its effects on people throughout their lives and starting to look at how we can educate people to do the best they can to to limit their exposure.   Michael Moran [00:22:52] Andy, hold on right there, we're going to take one more break. OK, we're back with Dr. Randy DeAngelo of the building research establishment in the UK. Any right before the break, we were talking about the studies that were now being mounted to look at the real long term health effects of poor air quality, of course, in my youth. I remember very well in the U.S. it was those kind of studies of outdoor air pollution that led to things like the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act as a twin and really kind of in the start of the environmental movement back in the 70s and 80s. Are we now seeing a regulation that's inevitable? I know there is some in the U.K., there's some in in specific jurisdictions in the United States like New York City and some of the more progressive cities around the country. But are we likely now to see much more focus from regulators on indoor air quality?   Andy Dengel [00:23:59] I think we're getting towards that. But I say it's always it's always difficult because if you going to do that, you then you need to be able to incentivize house builders and other developers to think more about it. But I think we're starting to see the need to look more indoor outdoor air because as you said, we've known about it a long time and there is a monitoring zone in the UK now, and I'm sure that's the case in the US and other places. Lots of monitoring of outdoor air to the point where you can go on to government website in the UK and find out, you know, the particle level will be an O2 level at any one time near to where you live. But there just isn't the data indoors, and I think this is being recognized by certainly the government departments I talked to. You know, where's the large study that starts to really look at indoor air quality and measuring? The last one that I know of was done by the Bay Area cells 20 25 years ago when we monitored 900 houses for a whole range of parameters that gave some good indications of the salt levels you can get in houses. But of course, twenty five years has seen a whole new way of building more modern methods of construction, the air efficient natural indoor energy efficiency agenda. So things have changed and there are studies out there, but they tend to become just very small samples of houses or or one development. So I think there's very much a call for bigger studies and then link that to the to the effects on health and well-being more. And I think we need quick studies that happened immediately rather than three to four year collaborative research. It's brilliant. But you can often take two years to conceive it and then four years to do the research and another year to disseminate. I don't think we necessarily want to take that long. I think some stuff needs to be done now. To look at the real situation and what what government can then do and use its regulation and use its incentivization to promote change.   Michael Moran [00:26:08] And I want to ask a question, it's not about air quality, I know your your title is about the IS reference. Sorry, your title references indoor environments generally, and there's a lot more to indoor environments than air. One of the things that also has been subject to study over the years is the extent to which high decibels or the wrong lumens brightness. You know, getting that kind of a mix wrong can be very damaging to people as well. Could you talk about that for a second?   Andy Dengel [00:26:45] You are very important, so a lot like, for instance, is very important for many reasons, not only in having the right amount of light and the right spectrum of light. If you like to do the tasks which you need to do, whether that be reading or some other wherever Typekit might be. And also, there are some big influences on the amount of sunlight the daylight people get. Effects on circadian rhythms. And also, of course, the thing people forget is, you know, too much sunlight into a building then causes heating and thermal discomfort. Settings and lighting is very, very important. And also. A sound and a noise, and there are two two main things here, there's there's plenty about what we call background noise or environmental noise, and then there's. Acute noise due to certain processes, and I think often the more important one is because you can often do something if you know there's going to be some particular noise in there, loud people can take some action. But it's really the background level of background noise and the the frequencies involved that can can cause problems in in workplaces and homes. So very important to take those into consideration, as well as things like ventilation and equality in a holistic. Assessment, and I know that in the UK, there are some moves towards having some some standards which really take in all of these parameters in an overall assessment of an indoor space so that, you know, so that nothing gets left out. Because if you treat one and leave the other three, you can have problems.   Michael Moran [00:28:27] I think just as with the pandemic, air quality has become something that people pay attention to tinnitus and issues of hearing loss have have become more focused upon in recent years. I suffer from it myself, I should say, which is not surprising. I spent years in very loud cities and played rock and roll in a band. I ride motorcycles. I covered wars when I was a journalist. I mean, I've been in some pretty loud environments and you know, there's a persistent ring. And I think there's a lot of people now that have this issue and it's become a much more front and center issue. Is that something that you're seeing employers be concerned about because there's not tonight specifically, but just let decibel levels background noise? Is there a demand in the market? I guess is the way I should ask it for it, for the kind of measurements that would help people prevent these problems.   Andy Dengel [00:29:34] Overall, not suffice to say, it's another thing that comes into the good. These things are measured for if people want credit for an environmental assessment scheme and they sometimes measure when people have already come forward with problems. Unfortunately, the sort of proactive measurement is quite rare in my experience. And so it's not my particular specialty acoustics, but certainly a lot of what goes in the design stage and stuff like that. And as I said, to get credits for four environmental schemes in terms of actually in occupation measurement. Certainly, I would. I'd say not enough is done. Some some projects have employees will do this, but often in my experience, it's people who are exposed to very loud sounds, for instance, you know, in a workshop or a lab or a factory. They will then have hearing tests as part of their occupational health. But I think we're missing a lot of other people who are exposed, not through, not through the incident to their occupation exposure at work, if you like. So I guess my answer is we probably need to do more and a much more proactive basis.   Michael Moran [00:30:48] Any of this has been tremendously fascinating, I could continue forever. And thinking about all the train stations and fire stations I've lived next to in London and New York and other cities in the course of my life and damage that probably did. But in any case, would you give the audience a sense of how they could learn more about these issues and follow your work at? Very.   Andy Dengel [00:31:18] Yes, certainly, I mean, the first of will very quickly say is that we some of we see some of the worst cases. So if I've painted a bad picture, you know, always that concern is something to think about. And if you need more information, please go to our website, which is W WW dot Beharie Group dot com. And under testing, you'll see a section on indoor environments that will give you some information and also some some publications that we've done on things like ensuring good air quality and good lighting for for health and well-being. And there's a lot more on on the website connecting that with our aspects of the built environment.   Michael Moran [00:32:03] Thank you, Doctor. I'll ask one more question if you were going to read one study on the importance of air quality. What would it be in your recommendation?   Andy Dengel [00:32:16] And there's there's a report called Every Breath We Take is the RCP, so if you if you put in Royal College of Physicians, Physicians, RCP, I'm sure it's called every, every breath we take. That's a sort of it was about 2016, but it really sets the scene about air quotes. And although most of it's not outdoor air quality, it references the importance of indoor air quality. And in fact, it's led to another report since when I say every breath we take by the RCP. We'll give you a very good understanding of both air quality and its potential effects on people's physical and mental health.   Michael Moran [00:32:58] Well, thank you so much, Dr. Andy Tangle theory, of course, you can learn more about microshare and how we're helping get the world safely back to work with our every smart suite of products, including every smart air, which is directly related to this conversation, every smart, clean, smart space. You can also subscribe to Manifest Density on the website or download it on iTunes, Google Play, iHeartRadio, Spotify and other platforms. But that'll do it for this week. And on behalf of Microshare and its global employees, I want to thank Dr. Randy Dango again and say, This is Mike Moran saying so long. Be well and thank you for listening.  

Special guest and long-time friend Ryan Carver joins the program. He's the former CTO of Typekit and creator of the photo layout app Series. We talk about the line between designer and developer, when it's important, and when it's definitely not.

Special guest and long-time friend Ryan Carver joins the program. He's the former CTO of Typekit and creator of the photo layout app Series. We talk about the line between designer and developer, when it's important, and when it's definitely not.

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about tales from web dev past — clearfix, floats, flash, cufon, guestbooks, hit counters, and more! Sanity - Sponsor Sanity.io is a real-time headless CMS with a fully customizable Content Studio built in React. Get a Sanity powered site up and running in minutes at sanity.io/create. Get an awesome supercharged free developer plan on sanity.io/syntax. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your errors, track them with Sentry. Sentry is open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. Cut your time on error resolution from five hours to five minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code “tastytreat”. Show Notes 04:28 - Float-based layouts Clearfix ☠️ Killed by Flexbox, and then Grid 09:29 - Loading Screens: Two websites - one flash and one HTML Splash screen 11:22 - Hit counters 12:28 - Guestbooks 13:28 - Flash 3rd party player Media dragged its feet FOREVER ☠️ Killed by Steve Jobs 18:46 - Fonts The Golden Layout Cufon / sIFR / Images of text Typekit ☠️ Killed by font-face 24:15 - Folder-based version control ☠️ Killed by Git 26:22 - FTP ☠️ Killed by Git, then many other things 28:40 - CSS Zen Garden CSS Zen Garden ☠️ Killed by CSS being better 32:02 - TextMate Coda Notepad++ Adobe GoLive FrontPage Macromedia / Dreamweaver ☠️ Killed by Sublime Text, then VSCode 33:58 - Sliding doors A technique for rounded corners on buttons ☠️ Killed by CSS 35:29 - PNG Fix ☠️ Killed by the death of IE6 37:53 - 9-Panel layouts ☠️ Killed by CSS 39:20 - CSS 3 Please CSS 3 Please Paul Irish ☠️ Killed by modern CSS Links Silverlight Chris Coyier ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Fancierstudio 600 LED Light Panel Kit Wes: Allen Key Drill Bit Set Shameless Plugs Scott: React 3D and Advanced Animating React with Framer Motion - Sign up for the year and save 25%! Wes: Master Gatsby Course - Use the coupon code ‘Syntax’ for $10 off! Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

Using Adobe Typekit fonts in Indesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator is wonderful. There are too many to choose from. However, if you need the font so you can package your work or work offline, your Typekit fonts won’t be available. This video shows you how to find them. The post How to Find Adobe Typekit fonts on Mac appeared first on AARON LINSDAU Adversity Expert.

Special guest and old friend Bryan Mason joins the show. He's the Chief Business Officer of photo company VSCO and former co-founder of Typekit. We talk about the hard work of operationalizing creative talent.

十月，我们迎来又一个字体之秋。本季，除了海内外新闻，我们将主要为大家报道在京举办的「字体与时代」主题论坛与工作坊，分享主播 Eric 参与其中的所见及所感。 参考链接 「Type Space｜字体空间相对论」主题沙龙将于 2018 年 11 月 10 日在上海进行，由文鼎字库主办，现可报名 字体设计师许瀚文荣获 2018 年 DFA 香港青年设计才俊奖之「创意智优青年设计才俊奖」 《经济学人》（The Economist）时隔十七年改版设计 QuarkXPress 2018 Pro 进入 Mac App Store，该版本与 QuarkXPress 2018 有所不同 Typekit 于今年 10 月改名为 Adobe Fonts 字加，方正字库出品的字体管理工具 字由，汉仪字库出品的字体管理工具 TrueType 简史；谭沛然所撰〈参数化设计与字体战争：从 OpenType 1.8 说起〉一文中，亦有字体格式发展历史的相关介绍 「字体与时代」主题论坛与工作坊，北京服装学院艺术设计学院字体工作室于 10 月 21 至 23 日举办 「字体与时代」现场演讲实录 鸟海修，日本字体设计师，字游工房主理人 小矶裕司，日本平面设计师，「字体与时代」演讲者之一 江户文字 《习近平谈治国理政》，有多种外语译本，外文出版社出版 Glyphs 提供的字体曲线绘制技巧 はるか（Haruka），JR 西日本的特急列车 主播 Eric：字体排印研究者，译者，Type is Beautiful 编辑 蒸鱼：设计师，Type is Beautiful 编辑 欢迎与我们交流或反馈，来信请致 podcast@thetype.com​。如果你喜爱本期节目，也欢迎用支付宝向我们捐赠：hello@thetype.com​。 Type is Beautiful 会员计划已上线，成为我们的会员，即可享受月刊通讯、礼品赠送、活动优惠以及购物折扣等权益。

Host Jeffrey Zeldman interviews Bram Stein, Typekit's director of web fonts and author of the Webfont Handbook (A Book Apart, 2017). The two designers discuss creating great font stacks, optimizing web font performance, FOUT versus FOIT, the horror of fallback fonts, and new technology including variable fonts and font-display: FOUT or FOIT. Links for this episode:Bram Stein (@bramstein) | TwitterIndra Kupferschmid (@kupfers) | TwitterA Book Apart, Webfont HandbookVariable Fonts for Responsive Design · An A List Apart Blog PostFonts In Use – Type at work in the real world.Font Face Observer — fast and simple web font loadingTypographicaAlphabettesThe Typekit Blog | Variable fonts, a new kind of font for flexible designIntroducing OpenType Variable Fonts – John Hudson – Mediumfont-display - CSS | MDNBrought to you by: ZipRecrutier (Visit the link to post jobs on ZipRecruiter for FREE). HelloFresh (For $30 off your first week of HelloFresh, visit HelloFresh.com and enter BWS30). Videoblocks (Go to Videoblocks.com/bigwebshow to get all the stock footage, audio, and images you can imagine for just $149).

Host Jeffrey Zeldman interviews Bram Stein, Typekit’s director of web fonts and author of the Webfont Handbook (A Book Apart, 2017). The two designers discuss creating great font stacks, optimizing web font performance, FOUT versus FOIT, the horror of fallback fonts, and new technology including variable fonts and font-display: FOUT or FOIT.

Typography might be hard to discuss in a podcast, but we're giving it a try! Today our guest is Rafal Tomal, VP of Design at Rainmaker Digital. You'll learn about the current state of web typography, why fonts play such a huge role in usability and branding, and how to make sensible font choices for your software product. Podcast feed: subscribe to http://simplecast.fm/podcasts/1441/rss in your favorite podcast app, and follow us on iTunes, Stitcher, or Google Play Music. Show Notes Rainmaker Digital — Rafal's company (also StudioPress, Copyblogger) typespiration.com — Rafal's typography project The Essential Web Design Handbook — Rafal's book on designing websites Hack Your Design — Rafal's new book with Chris Garrett Museo Sans, Merriweather — some of Rafal's favorite web fonts Acumin Pro, Roboto — some of Jane's favorite web fonts Streamline Icons, Symbolset, Dutchicon — our favorite icon resources Typewolf — a typography project by Jeremiah Shoaf that inspired Rafal Rafal's website (some amazing illustrations there) Follow Rafal on Dribbble Follow Rafal on Twitter: @RafalTomal Get 20% off Rafal's book Today's Sponsor This episode is brought to you by Balsamiq Mockups. Balsamiq Mockups is a rapid wireframing tool that helps you work faster and smarter. It reproduces the experience of sketching on a whiteboard, but using a computer. Making mockups is fast: you'll generate more ideas, so you can throw out the bad ones and discover the best solutions. Try it free for 30 days at balsamiq.com. Interested in sponsoring an episode? Learn more here. Leave a Review Reviews are hugely important because they help new people discover this podcast. If you enjoyed listening to this episode, please leave a review on iTunes. Here's how.

Descripcion del programa Wences Sanz, Senior Designer en Everis nos cuenta su visión por el diseño y las tendencias web que podremos ver este 2017. Nos cuenta su pasión por el diseño y como ve la evolución de este en la web, que le inspira y que no. Si os sentís identificad@s al hablar de tendencias de diseño, del presente y futuro de la Web... ¡Éste es vuestro Podcast! Esperamos que os guste el episodio y como siempre... nos vemos en la red. Recomendaciones Preguntas rápidas: Wences Sanz Quién me ha inspirado: Javier Romero Quién me ha inspirado: Cruz Novillo Quién me ha inspirado: Paul Rand Quién me ha inspirado: Saul Bass Quién me ha inspirado: Josef Müller-Brockmann Recomiéndanos un recurso: Pocket Recomiéndanos un recurso: Dropmark Recomiéndanos a un invitado: Ritxi Ostáriz ¿Qué tema te gustaría que tratásemos?: La formación Contacta con: Wences Sanz Twitter de Wences Sanz LinkedIn de Wences Sanz Tumblr Designmatazz Links del programa Fjord Bauhaus Atipo Studio Google Fonts Typekit Yugo Nakamura Hi-res WebGL WebVR Chrome Experiments Awwwards FWA SiteInspire Graffica R/GA Squarespace fabrik Semplice Lab Virb Carlos Ulloa Recomendaciones de Ignacio Essential design trends, November 2016 18 web design trends for 2017 Web Design Trends for 2017 13 Web Design Trends to Watch in 2017 10 Hottest Web Design Trends You Gotta Know for 2017 Web Design Trends for 2017 Contacta con el programa Web de WeCodeSign Twitter de WeCodeSign eMail de WeCodeSign Web de Ignacio Villanueva Twitter de Ignacio Villanueva

Loop11’s co-founder Shefik Bey talks to Jeff Veen. Jeff is a Design Partner at True Ventures, where he spends his time helping companies create better products. He also does as an advisor for companies like about.me, Medium, and WordPress. Previously, he was VP of Design at Adobe after they acquired Typekit, the companyhe co-founded and ran as CEO. Jeff was also one of the founding partners of the user experience consulting group Adaptive Path. While there, he led Measure Map, which was acquired by Google. And during his time at Google, Jeff designed Google Analytics and lead the UX team for Google's apps. Follow True North on Twitter or subscribe to be notified of new episodes.

Is responsive design the right solution when most users don’t visit on mobile devices? Jake Giltsoff and David Demaree from Typekit explain that responsive helps meet the needs of large-screen users too. Read more »

Descripcion del programa Hoy contamos con un amigo del programa, Lole Román, diseñador UI y tipógrafo, apasionado de crear. Si no sabéis lo que importante que es el uso de la tipografía en la web este es tu episodio. ¿Quiéres iniciarte en el buen uso de tipografía en la web y sabes como aprovecharla al máximo? Hablamos sobre problemas técnicos que pueden crear o como solucionar el mal uso de la tipografía en la web. ¿Te lo vas a perder? Encuesta para pedir Feedback Posibles topics, entrevistados y duración del programa Recomendaciones Preguntas rápidas: Lole Román Quién me ha inspirado: ¡Su adorada mujer! Recomiéndanos un recurso: Modular Scale Recomiéndanos a un invitado: Manuel Sesma ¿Qué tema te gustaría que tratásemos?: Diseño Editorial Contacta con: Lole Román FonTown Web de Lole LinkedIn de Lole Twitter de Lole Links del programa Fedra tipografía Eduardo Manso TrueType vs OpenType Spiekermann Typekit Google Fonts Analyzing Web Font Performance Responsive Typography the Basics Font Loading Revisited with Font Events A comprehensive guide to font loading Using Web Fonts avoiding a @font-face-palm State of Web Type A Closer Look At Font Rendering OpenType variable fonts Optimizando Web Fonts Joan Quirós Recomendaciones de Ignacio y Gabi Typographyhandbook Practical Typography Professional Web Typography Typewolf Contacta con el programa Web de WeCodeSign Twitter de WeCodeSign eMail de WeCodeSign Web de Ignacio Villanueva Twitter de Ignacio Villanueva

Typography is a huge and critical component of the Web. So what do you need to know about web fonts for your site? Designer Michellanne Li goes into the details. TRANSCRIPT AM: Hi again everyone, and welcome to The Secret Sauce, a short podcast by Palantir.net, that offers a quick piece of advice to help your business run smoother. I’m Allison Manley, an Account Manager here at Palantir, and today’s advice comes from one of our designers Michellanne Li, who is going to talk about web fonts. ML: Hello, my name is Michellanne, and I am a designer here at Palantir. Today, I am going to talk to you about web fonts: what are they, and why do you need them? How do you select fonts and implement them on your website? In the early days of the internet, browsers could only render a handful of typefaces, 5 of which became commonly used. Over time, however, browsers and font files have developed so that we literally have thousands of options when we look to select a typeface for a website. But, first of all what exactly is a web font? According to CreativePro.com: “A webfont is a font file downloaded from a Web server and used by the browser to render HTML text.” The desktop fonts that you use in Word or Photoshop are specifically encoded to be rendered by a computer. Desktop fonts come in the following file types: TrueType, PostScript, and OpenType. However, web fonts are created to be read by browsers. Web fonts come in: TrueType, WOFF, EOT, and SVG. So, from a technical standpoint, you need web fonts if you are building a website because they are specifically encoded for the web. But from a design standpoint, good web fonts have features that make them particularly suited to being read on a screen. For instance, they may have wider letter spacing, heavier strokes, or taller x-heights (which are the relative heights of the lower case characters). All of these result in greater readability on a screen. Users don’t spend a lot of time on each web page, so making smart design decisions is critical in ensuring that your content reaches it audience. According to the User Experience experts at Nielson Norman Group, “the first 10 seconds of the page visit are critical for users' decision to stay or leave. The probability of leaving is very high during these first few seconds because users are extremely skeptical, having suffered countless poorly designed Web pages in the past.” Now that we know what web fonts are and why you need them, let’s talk about the financial and technical considerations behind selecting the right fonts. The following are some guidelines to keep in mind: Free fonts are great! . . . sort of. In 2010, Google launched Google fonts, making hundreds of web fonts available to the public free of charge. To do this, Google has collaborated with designers in exchange for a flat fee and the promise of exposure. Google fonts can be a great option if you are on a really tight budget. However, the following are risks to consider: Unfortunately, Google fonts are not held to any external standards, both from an aesthetic and technical standpoint. Before choosing one, it’s wise to verify if it works in all major browsers. Unlike commercial fonts, many Google fonts do not come in a range of weights or styles, such as italics. Due to the Chinese government’s censorship of Google, Google fonts do not work in China. If you have an audience in China, this is important. Websites with Google fonts not only load slowly, they may appear “broken.” Although workarounds exist, they all come down to finding a different source for fonts. Some of the latest sources are Chinese services that host Google’s fonts on their own servers. Although this probably is not illegal, I would not recommend that clients use a fonts platform that did not pay for its fonts. It is, to say the least, poor form. Free fonts, including but not limited to Google fonts, get enormous mileage both in print and on the web. When it comes to simple classic typefaces, that’s not a bad thing. They are like the little black dresses of typography. But, if you’re looking for a high impact display font to differentiate your website, selecting the same free font that everyone else has already used to the point of exhaustion will have the opposite effect.All of this being said, Google fonts has some real gems and is a solid, budget-friendly option. So, why bother shelling out money for a commercial font? You should purchase a commercial font when the following are your priorities: Quality: Commercial fonts are held to high technical and aesthetic standards. The best typeface foundries put an incredible amount of thought and detail into their work and can answer questions about browser compatibility, usage scenarios, and the history behind each typeface. Brand consistency: If you have an existing brand that includes typefaces for print materials, it’s worth it to purchase the corresponding web fonts. In the event that you are just starting to establish your brand, now is a good time to ask if the typefaces you like have print and web equivalents and to determine how well these potential typefaces work in both kinds of media. When purchasing a commercial font, it is important to read the licensing agreement. Font designers and retailers place constraints on the scope of a font’s usage in order to protect the value of their product. So, at this point, you’ve picked your fonts, and you’re ready to start using them on your website. How does that work? One option is to use a hosting service for your fonts, which means that your font files will reside on the server of the company from which you obtained them, and your website will load those files. For commercial fonts, hosting is a subscription-based service. The advantages of this are: Implementing the fonts on your website is as easy as adding a single line of code. Web fonts get updated as the internet changes and grows. With a hosting service, your provider can push the latest versions of the font files to the cloud server, and they will be automatically loaded onto your website. You don’t need to keep track of the font files. Hosting services offer some great bargains. For instance, Typekit is a hosting service that is bundled into the Adobe Creative Cloud package. For no additional cost, this includes unlimited web font usage for up to 500,000 page views. All of that being said, Typekit isn’t really a bargain if you don’t need Adobe Creative Cloud to begin with.Self-hosting is another option. Self-hosting means that the font files exist on your server. The main advantage of self-hosting is the ability to subset fonts. This means editing the files to remove unneeded characters. Subsetting results in smaller files sizes, speeding up the load time of your website. In summation, web fonts are an important component in creating a website because they are specifically designed and encoded for the web. In selecting fonts, both financial and technical considerations should be taken into account. Once you’ve determined your fonts, you can choose to use a hosting service or to self-host. Even when we’re not conscious of it, typography is a huge part of the web. I hope this talk will contribute to making the web a more beautiful and user-friendly place! AM: Thanks for listening to this week’s Secret Sauce! For more great knowledge, visit our website at palantir.net, or follow us on twitter at @palantir. Have a great day!

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!    

In the world of tech and design, Jeff Veen has done it all. From launching Typekit and working as Adobe's VP of Design, to his new role as Design Partner in the VC world at True Ventures. After sharing lessons from his expansive career (in the most humble way possible), Jeff talks to us about bringing better typography to the web, Adobe's acquisition of Typekit, and the role of design in modern business. Full transcript and show notes

有很多领域已经被互联网颠覆，有很多专业领域尚未被互联网颠覆。由建筑师苏麒创办的 Modelo 就是一个想把建筑师、工业设计师、机械工程师——一切涉及三维建模的设计行业——的工作流程互联网化的产品。Modelo 源自苏麒在哈佛大学设计学院（Harvard Graduate School of Design）读书时获得了多个奖项的毕业设计作品，但他说现在的 Modelo 只实现了毕业设计构思的一小部分。建筑师的工作流程可以怎样改善？建筑设计有开源的可能吗？建筑设计可以模块化吗？VR 可以对建筑师起到帮助吗？本期我们请到苏麒以及纽约的建筑师黄璟璐一起对谈。 本期会员通讯将于稍后发至各位会员邮箱。每月三十元，支持不鸟万如一和 Rio 把《IT 公论》做成最好的科技播客。请访问 itgonglun.com/member。若您无意入会，但喜欢某一期节目，也欢迎用支付宝或 PayPal 支付小费至 hi@itgonglun.com，支付宝用户亦可扫描下方二维码： 我们推荐您使用泛用型播客客户端订阅收听《IT 公论》，但您也可以在喜马拉雅、荔枝 FM 或网易云音乐收听。 相关链接 《IT 公论》博客 IPN 播客网络 Telegram 听众群列表 Modelo Graduate School of Design (GSD) GitHub Basecamp Rhino Revit TypeKit Blend.io 黑川纪章 日本的新陈代谢派建筑 中银胶囊大楼 OMA Houzz 苏麒的 Twitter 黄璟璐的新浪微博 @Echoooooo_H 苏麒的微信：suqidan Modelo 微信公众号: Modelo 苏麒的 Medium IPN 播客网络常见问题解答 人物简介 不鳥萬如一：字节社创始人 苏麒：Modelo 创始人、CEO 黄璟璐：坐标纽约的建筑设计师

Jeffrey Veen , design partner at True Ventures, and founder of Typekit joins us to discuss the benefits of living a more curious and creative life. HIGHLIGHTS: Lessons in design and content creation from the earliest days of the internet Finding the things that are infectious to us Why empathy is one of the most vital skills that we can learn The power of democratizing tools The power of marketing from a place of sharing everything you do The psychology of being an employee, entrepreneur, and investor Why we must develop a level deep self-knowledge The role that higher purpose plays in our work Lessons learned from some Silicon Valley folk heroes– QUOTES It took me many years to get over my education One narrative that I've throughout out my career is to constant striving to overcome constraint People who become really successful have to strive for deep self-knowledge When I was honest with myself it had less to do with wealth and more to do with reputationJeffrey Veen is a designer partner at True Ventures, where he spend his time helping companies create better products. He does this as an advisor, as well, for companies like about.me, Medium, and WordPress. Previously, he was VP of Design at Adobe after they acquired Typekit, the company he co-founded and ran as CEO. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week Reda and Kyle talk about the tools that they use during their design process. They touch on everything from graphical editors, color pickers and task list applications. Text Editor Episode Photoshop Illustrator Sketch Chrome preference for change Affinity designer Brenda’s SVG Episode SVGo Sip Pixa Colour lovers Kuler ImageOptim Typekit Google Fonts Sublime Text Dash Text Expander El Capitan Evernote Simplenote Google Keep Yojimbo Omnifocus Things Wunderlist Clear Google Inbox Mailbox

Dan Benjamin interviews "Jeffrey Veen":http://veen.com, author and speaker, founder of "Typekit":http://typekit.com. They discuss the web, being acquired by Google, working at Adaptive Path, Wired, WebMonkey and HotWired, launching a successful startup, working with local and virtual teams, and where we're headed as a web community. Original Air Date: May 13, 2010

In this episode of Adobe Creative Cloud TV, Terry White shows the NEW Typekit Font integration in Adobe Muse CC 2015.

This week we're joined by special guest Jeff Veen. Jeff founded Typekit, which was acquired by Adobe in 2011. He recently stepped down from his position at Adobe to join True Ventures as a Design Partner. In this episode, Jeff shares what he's learned about the importance of design and performance, we talk about why slow page load speeds are a big problem for content providers, what Facebook is trying to accomplish with Instant Articles, and so much more. We are sponsored this week by Velocity Conference. Learn from web performance and DevOps experts, and network with developers and operations engineers in beautiful Santa Clara, CA, May 27-29, 2015. Use coupon code “20path” for 20% off your ticket! Show Links: Facebook Instant Articles Jason Grigsby's tweet about Instant Articles Jeff Veen Follow Jeff on Twitter Typekit True Ventures The Art and Science of Web Design

In this episode: News: Adobe Comp CC, Typekit upgrades, PePcon All About I (the keyboard shortcut that changed with CC 2014) Interview with Roberto Blake, Graphic Designer/YouTube Star Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Masters Fixed  News and special offers from our sponsors:   >> movemen (pronounced move-eh-men) is the developer of MathTools, an outstanding equation editor plug-in for InDesign and InCopy.  It's the tool of choice for science, math, and engineering textbook publishers worldwide. New in MathTools v2.0 is the ability to convert the equations to MathML (open source industry standard for math equations in XML/HTML5 /CSS3) upon export to HTML, XML, and EPUB! Learn more about MathTools v2.0 on movemen's site, and about its MathML feature in this FAQ.   Links mentioned in this podcast: Anne-Marie spoke at Michela Di Stefano's Digital Publishing Explorers conference Adobe Comp CC in the iTunes store and our post about it Typekit blog, their posts about Extensis and site redesign PePcon 2015, June 1–4 in Philadelphia PA -- Registration today! PePcon 2015 breakfast sessions on: MEI's TruEdit Rorohiko's Crawler movemen's MathTools (see above) The I Key and the new Color Theme Tool: Using the Color Theme Tool (Tip of the Week post) Getting the Color Theme Tool Out of Your Way Roberto Blake: RobertoBlake.com AlwaysBeCreating, Roberto's YouTube channel Roberto's articles on CreativePro.com

Jeffrey Zeldman's guest is web pioneer Jeff Veen (@veen), cofounder of Typekit and Adaptive Path, co-creator of Measuremap, author of The Art & Science of Web Design and Hot Wired Style, ex-Google, ex-Adobe, now with True Ventures capital investment firm. Jeff and Jeffrey discuss creating the tools our community uses to make the stuff the world consumes, agency versus in-house design, consulting design monetization versus product design monetization, parent hacks, mentoring, the early web design days of Debabelizer and using server-side push for animation (because animated GIFs didn't exist yet), how companies get valuated, what it takes to make a thing (versus what it takes to scale it), speaking versus writing, research, empathy, and saying no to products that kill kittens. Links for this episode:Jeffrey Veen (@veen) | TwitterLeaving AdobeTypekitJeff Veen's blogBooks by Jeff VeenAmazon.com

Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest is web pioneer Jeff Veen (@veen), cofounder of Typekit and Adaptive Path, co-creator of Measuremap, author of The Art & Science of Web Design and Hot Wired Style, ex-Google, ex-Adobe, now with True Ventures capital investment firm. Jeff and Jeffrey discuss creating the tools our community uses to make the stuff the world consumes, agency versus in-house design, consulting design monetization versus product design monetization, parent hacks, mentoring, the early web design days of Debabelizer and using server-side push for animation (because animated GIFs didn’t exist yet), how companies get valuated, what it takes to make a thing (versus what it takes to scale it), speaking versus writing, research, empathy, and saying no to products that kill kittens.

Jason Santa Maria of Vox Media & A Book Apart discusses his new book, On Web Typography, with host Jeffrey Zeldman. The two designers discuss writing on trains, placing objects and playing with type, the new web designer, designing the Typekit logo, editorial design and Vox Media, three years and two editors, heavenly italics, type classification systems, Dieter Rams and "touch-ability," design as strategy, hitting it with the pretty stick, and more. Links for this episode:jasonsantamaria.comA Book ApartOn Web TypographyTypedia (a "'wikipedia' for typography" by JSM and friends)TypekitVox Media blogabout Vox Media (Wikipedia)The Verge (a Wikipedia content property)AmtrakMark Simonson's type siteAbout Dieter Rams (Wikipedia)About Good Design (Dieter Rams)On the Typekit logoFonts by type designer Joshua DardenEllen LuptonAmazon.com

Jason Santa Maria of Vox Media & A Book Apart discusses his new book, On Web Typography, with host Jeffrey Zeldman. The two designers discuss writing on trains, placing objects and playing with type, the new web designer, designing the Typekit logo, editorial design and Vox Media, three years and two editors, heavenly italics, type classification systems, Dieter Rams and "touch-ability," design as strategy, hitting it with the pretty stick, and more.

In this interview Jeffrey Veen, talks about the importance of having relationships and the power of working in small teams. He also reveals why you should be careful when picking your investors as well as the story behind how Typekit was acquired.

What Font 插件的想法源自某个非程序员朋友的实际需求。推出后，Typekit 的创意总监 Jason Santa Maria 转发推荐，Monotype 的人特地写信表达谢意。 柳成荫作为旧金山湾区居民表达了自己对于湾区「中产化」（gentrification）倾向的私人见解。 为什么一个爱读书的 full stack 程序员最常用的手机 app 是 Reddit Pics？ 相关链接 What Font Backplane Typekit Jason Santa Maria Monotype Hoefler & Frere-Jones Founders at Work Reddit Reddit Pics 延伸聆听 #38: 海外中国程序员系列之二：徐哲 #35：海外中国程序员系列之一：江疆（jjgod） 人物简介 李如一：字节社创始人。 Rio: Apple4us 作者兼程序员。 柳成荫：What Font 插件作者，现居旧金山湾区，任职于 Blackplane。

InDesign Magazine; PePcon 2014; Typekit; Hyperlinks; Workspaces; OFOTW: Clear All Details below! ------------------------  News from the land of InDesign InDesign Magazine goes monthly Magazine is now a benefit of InDesignSecrets.com paid membership Special instructions for existing InDesign Magazine subscribers New site up for PePcon 2014, just 4 months away! Answers to attendee questions from our InDesign Masters webinar, including: Typekit ins and outs Shared destination hyperlinks Previewing fonts tip Sharing custom workspaces Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Clear All News and special offers from our sponsors: >> InfoLogic's MathMagic Pro lets you quickly insert mathematical equations and scientific symbols into your InDesign document. It anchors an EPS of the equation at the text insertion point, automatically aligning the baseline of the equation to the text baseline, and can accept incoming equations from Word's Equation Editor, MathML, MathType, or LaTeX. Just double-click the anchored EPS to edit! Available for InDesign CS3 to CC, Mac or Windows. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Follow the instructions on this page to receive a free two-month subscription to MathMagic Pro ($100 value). Offer expires March 31, 2014! Links mentioned in this podcast: PePcon: The Print + ePublishing Conference Recording of Anne-Marie & David's "Secrets of the InDesign Masters" webinar (Flash required) This is a useful PDF for designers new to Typekit You don't need to have Creative Cloud to use Typekit desktop fonts We talked about shared hyperlink destinations in podcast 118 (transcript) How to do the cool font change preview trick Tool for quickly resizing all your scaled images to 100% David's favorite Mac utilities including the active app one

I had the pleasure to interview Drew Strojny, founder of The Theme Foundry, about their work at The Theme Foundry, their philosophies about themes, and their latest theme release, Oxford. http://s3.amazonaws.com/PostStatus/DraftPodcast/Post-Status-Draft-3-Drew-Strojny-ThemeFoundry.mp3 Direct Download Drew is a former Duke football player that spent a few years in the NFL before he started a small business doing general marketing. Over time, his clients started asking for websites, so he discovered WordPress. His work with web projects led him to start designing WordPress themes, and he ended up being an early player in the commercial theme market in 2008. Competition with themes over time In 2008, there weren’t many people selling themes. Chris Pearson was selling Thesis, Brian Gardner was selling Revolution, pre-Genesis. WooThemes was just underway. But the demand was enormous. Well, I thought we’d just throw our hat into the ring and try a design and see how it goes, and we got a really huge response. It was really great timing on our part. It was one of the best times to get into the theme market. The WordPress theme space really exploded for a few years. Drew notes that they haven’t seen the explosive growth in the past couple years compared to the first two The market is maturing and there are a lot more companies in the space, and a lot more options. Setting themselves apart I asked Drew how The Theme Foundry sets themselves apart from the competition, considering just how many theme providers there are now. They like to tout their “world class design and clean code” when they market their themes. They do most of their design in house, but they also commission some designs to get outside the bubble of the “WordPress theme” concept, and those commissioned themes help them expand their work. John Hicks designed Shelf. Ryan Essmaker designed the Anthem theme, Dave Ruiz designed the Avid theme, and most recently Veerle Pieters designed the Collections theme. The Theme Foundry notably doesn’t use any form of framework and attempts to limit theme options as much as possible. When they sell a theme to a customer, they want it to “just work” and be reliable over time. The impact of selling themes on WordPress.com The Theme Foundry was one of the first providers invited to sell commercial themes on WordPress.com. They released the Shelf theme in early 2011, and today nearly their entire collection is available. However, WordPress.com wants as many great themes in the marketplace as possible, so over time the overall impact WordPress.com plays on The Theme Foundry’s business has been reduced, but it’s still an important part of what they do. Making big splashes with themes The Theme Foundry has made a number of big splashes in the theme market. Shelf, at the time, was an innovative theme, making use of post formats and responsive design when hardly anyone was doing it. Collections has a single page app (SPA) feel, using Backbone for loading pages, and Basis has a drag and drop builder that made a lot of waves. Drew says that they don’t like to just put out themes, but prefer to create themes that target a specific concept, and then build the theme to fit well into that concept, without bloating the theme with unnecessary functionality. Oxford theme and Typekit integration Their latest theme is another that’s ready to make a splash. To date, no theme company has automated Typekit integration; as in, if a theme customer currently wants to use Typekit fonts, they need a separate account for it. With Oxford ( demo), The Theme Foundry is including Typekit support, without a Typekit account, as part of the yearly licensing deal. What this means, is that Oxford offers the theme plus the Typekit font integration, for $79. And the yearly renewal fee is reduced to $39 for support, updates, and a continued Typekit font license. The Typekit integration is the first of its kind in the WordPress theme landscape. To date, it’s a world limited by Google web fonts for hosted custom font integrations. There’s nothing wrong with Google web fonts, but Typekit is certainly a level up, and I’m excited to see this happen. All of The Theme Foundry’s themes will be integrated with Typekit over the coming weeks. You can read more on their announcement post. The Theme Foundry, Post Status, and what’s next Drew and I had a fifty minute convesation discussing the topics above and much more. We also spent some time talking about advertising, content marketing, and The Theme Foundry’s partnership with Post Status. If you’re interested in our relationship and Drew’s motivation for supporting what I do, I hope you’ll give this interview a listen. It was a pleasure to talk to Drew, and I look forward to seeing what The Theme Foundry has coming next. You can follow Drew on Twitter, The Theme Foundry on Twitter, and check out their website.

In this Very Special New Year's episode: News: PePcon speakers and sessions posted, Anne-Marie at ADIM14, new lynda.com InDesign CC to EPUB title released All about the latest InDesign CC update (9.2) Easier and more stable Hyperlinks Typekit integration EPUB improvements and new features 3 New Things we each want to learn in 2014 Anne-Marie: Cloud publishing, In5 plug-in, and Editorial/Design workflow platforms David: Web apps from InDesign, Phone Gap and Baker Framework, and the violin! Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Autogrow News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Centre in the UK, is a premiere provider of Adobe InDesign, EPUB, and Adobe DPS training. They have just been awarded the CompTIA Trustmark award in the UK, which affords them recognition as a modern I.T. training company with standards. Certitec hold classes in Cardiff, London, or Bristol. Get booked today onto a Certitec course and experience the latest and greatest software experience from Adobe! Follow them on Twitter at @Certitec and keep up with their Facebook page. If you sign up for a seminar or class and mention you heard about them on InDesignSecrets, you get 20% off the fee! Links mentioned in this podcast: PePcon 2014 initial speakers and sessions Anne-Marie's speaking at Russell Brown's ADIM Conference, March 9–14 in Boulder, Colorado Check out her new InDesign CC: EPUB Fundamentals course on lynda.com Steve Werner's blog post about new Typekit features in InDesign CC 9.2 (we have an article about all the new 9.2 features in the next issue of InDesign Magazine) Hyperlinks vs. Cross-References are the Odd Couple (music and intro) Resolutions: App publishing: Web apps/In5 plug-in, Baker Framework, Phone Gap Cloud-based publishing: LucidPress, LayerGloss, BookType, Inkling Habitat, Story The violin!

As part of the Christmas Crossover, Sarah and Josh explore a set of questions with Libby from Adobe Typekit.

For this Snippet, we discuss CSS Zen Garden after seeing the article, Typekit's second CSS Zen Garden theme: Apothecary by Sally Kerrigan. (http://www.pagebreakpodcast.com/snippets/css-zen-garden)

Ben Welch is the customer experience manager at Typekit, who just happens to have a great set of pipes.

Es herrscht Saure-Gurken-Zeit und die Themenliste war gähnend leer. Zum Glück konnte die Hörerschaft Hans, Peter und Stefan mit zwei Fragen gerade noch davon abhalten, eine Null-Minuten-Revision zu fabrizieren. Schaunotizen [00:00:14] Hörerfrage: Wie nutzt ihr Webfonts? Die Gretchenfrage spitzt sich auf die Entscheidung zwischen Fonthostern und Selfhosting zu. Hans macht gewzungenermaßen manche Projekte mit Typekit, […]

Call for speakers; TypeKit; Text Wrap Rap; Obscurity of the Week: Largest Area ----------- A little bit of news: TypeKit is now available for all Adobe CC subscribers PePcon 2014 open for registration! Last call for PePcon speakers! Fill out our friendly form Text Wrap Rap Confusing bits clarified Little-known tips and tricks What are all those contour options? Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Largest Area News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Em Software is the developer of DocsFlow and WordsFlow, two "time machine" plug-ins for your production workflow. Place early-draft stories or spreadsheets from Google Docs with DocsFlow, or Word/Excel documents with WordsFlow, and start your production work while your authors and editors continue working on the original documents. Merge their updated work at any time into your InDesign layouts with a single command, without losing anything, and with InDesign notes left at any points of conflicts. Special offer just for InDesignSecrets listeners: DocsFlow Pro 2.0 is 25% off in the EmSoftware.com store until the end of October 2013! Grab it now. >> Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Centre in the UK, is a premiere provider of Adobe InDesign, EPUB, and Adobe DPS training. They are officially in the Cloud! (Creative Cloud that is.) Certitec hold classes in Cardiff, London, or Bristol. Get booked today onto a Certitec course and experience the latest and greatest software experience from Adobe! Follow them on Twitter at @Certitec and keep up with their Facebook page. If you sign up for a seminar or class and mention you heard about them on InDesignSecrets, you get 20% off the fee! Links mentioned in this podcast: PePcon.com (2014 Print + ePublishing Conference site) is open for business! Get involved — be a PePcon speaker! We talked about Text Wrap in podcasts 180 and 048 too, if you can't get enough Detailed posts about Text Wrap here on the blog! Only Affects Text Beneath Preference (this one too) Text Wrap in a Table Dual Text Wrap Dilemma Wrapping Around Anchored Objects Making Dynamic Text Wrap Permanent Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs? (movie ref)

Recorded 28 June 2013. You can download the m4a file. In this episode we talk about iOS 7 and about syncing. This episode is sponsored by Igloo Software. Igloo is an intranet you’ll actually like. You can share content quickly with built-in apps: blogs, calendars, file sharing, forums, Twitter-like microblogs and wikis. Everything is social: you comment on any type of content, @mention your coworkers, follow content for updates and use tags to group things around the way you work. You can add on rooms, like mini-Igloos, for each of your teams to work in It’s easy – the whole thing is drag-and-drop, features responsive design and uses beautiful fonts from TypeKit Your Igloo has enterprise-grade security, and you can start using it right away It’s free to use with up to ten people, and when your Igloo grows, its only $12/person each month Go to igloosoftware.com/patty (as in Duke) to start building your Igloo Some things we mention: We Are Sinking Tokyo Mac Pro Macbook Air CodeWarrior iOS 7 Path OS X Mavericks Vesper Chatology WWDC Fantastical NetNewsWire Marco on NetNewsWire Syncing Feedly FeedHQ FeedWrangler NewsBlur Dropbox iCloud Amazon Web Services Windows Azure Mobile Services Heroku Mr. Reader HockeyApp

InDesign CC ships; Upcoming appearances; All About Frames; Obscurity of the week: Link Images Direct Link http://traffic.libsyn.com/indesignsecrets/InDesignSecrets-195.mp3 --------- Show Notes: News: InDesign CC released! (and InCopy CC too!) David at HOWLive Anne-Marie at AAUP and Maine Media Workshops New lynda.com title: InDesign CC Essential Training Frame-stravaganza: Prepare to be Amazed! Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Link Images News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko: Check out their newest plug-in, RepeatAfterMe (CS1 to CS6). It lets you make simple changes to a single object, and then repeat those changes for all similar objects throughout your entire document! You get to pick in which way the other objects must be similar from a dropdown list. It's like a combination of Illustrator's "Select Similar" and "Transform Again. RepeatAfterMe is $19.00 per seat, but you can use the coupon code: INDESIGNSECRETS195 to get 30% off. Links mentioned in this podcast: Our post about InDesign CC shipping Anne-Marie's Maine Media Workshop, "Taking the Leap into Enhanced eBooks" August 11–17 David's InDesign CC Essential Training lynda.com video Six Flags? Slight delay with TypeKit's desktop fonts Post about rotating text but not the frame

I decided that since I was getting close to episode 10 of the podcast (HOLY MOLY!) it might be a good time to give you an update on how things are going with the podcast and business in general. I've changed quite a few things since the beginning of the year (New Theme) and have seen a huge difference in many areas of my life (you know how it goes... when you start making changes  and consistently take action it's easier to have that roll over into other areas of your life).  I know I keep saying this, but it's really true that some of these things are SO obvious and they're actually simple. It's just a matter of trusting yourself enough to take action. The first thing I wanted to share is the New Theme. Ever since the new Minimum theme came out I knew I wanted to make the change, I just wasn't sure exactly what I wanted to do since I had just done the site makeover about a year and a half ago. I knew I was going to keep the colors and basic layout, just not sure what else I wanted to change. Then like most things when I relax about it and don't force it the answer comes to me pretty effortlessly. I wanted to incorporate my name into the logo (remember my post a while back about considering leaving The WP Chick behind?), knew I needed to change my opt-in offer and I wanted the podcast featured more predominantly on the homepage. SO... here you go! I still have to add in the video on the homepage (nice graphic of a fake video, huh?) and will be doing that this weekend. It will actually be a video of me in front of the camera... something I really don't do but think I'll probably start testing and playing with. I'm going to add in another graphic to the 'What I Do' section on the homepage and will probably change things up a bit with the footer widgets (kind of fillers... not terribly exciting). Of course I'd love to know what you think about the new layout! Oh... and let's not forget typekit. (which would have been sort of an epic fail considering I included it in the post and show name). First let me say that I do love Google Fonts. They're great. However, I was finding that depending on the browser I was using the fonts were hard to read and it was making me crazy! I felt like I should be investing in bifocals instead of plugins (see what I did there? Purchasing plugins are an INVESTMENT... haha). Then of course I happened to cruise over to Brian Gardner's site (his previous theme, because he recently changed it again, which isn't a dig. If I had his skills I'd probably do the same thing) and LOVED how crystal clear the text on his site was- regardless of what browser I'm using. And since I have the Adobe Creative Cloud monthly plan I can use typekit for no additional charge! Nice, huh? (I may be doing a post and video on how easy this was to integrate, so let me know if that's something you'd be interested in). The second thing is the new Opt-in Offer. I've been working on this for a while (jeeze, that seems to be a theme with me today! Remember how I said in episode 4 that you should focus on YOUR business first?). One of the things I've mentioned that I was focusing on this year was growing my list. I know there are TONS of different ways to do this and I intend to test different options (split testing, Facebook Ads, etc.), but the first thing I needed to do was change my opt-in offer. Why I decided to make the change. So here's the deal with the opt-in offer I had. It was really an easy out, for lack of a better explanation. The opt-in offer I had before the last one (Custom Social Profiles Plugin) was WordPress Video Marketing and it converted pretty well, but it needed to be updated and I was in the middle of a zillion other things and just wanted to change the homepage so the opt-in was more significant. I know, kind of lame. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that offering a free plugin is lame, it's just not that 'helpful', y'know? (And not exactly what someone who is looking for W...

As a special treat and thank you to my App users, you get this episode days before everyone else! Join Terry White, Adobe Worldwide Design Evangelist, to see Adobe Creative Cloud and the new features in Creative Suite 6 in action. Learn how you can create at lightning speed thanks to new performance engines in Photoshop Extended and Illustrator. See how to quickly create multiple layouts from a single set of content in Adobe InDesign CS6. And discover Adobe Muse, for designing HTML websites without writing code including 400+ web fonts served by Typekit that make it a breeze to include distinctive typography in your site design.

Jeffrey Zeldman interviews Tim Brown of Typekit and Nice Web Type on where we are with web fonts, real web type in real web context, using Dribbble to develop a tone of voice, how saving small snippets of other people's content can turn you into a blogger, Samantha Warren's Style Tiles, molten leading orbital content, pages versus chunks, the type-driven design, web font fallbacks, the connection between leading and font family, transitioning from university work to Typekit, and much more. Links for this episode:FacitWeb on TypekitResponsive typographyModular scales — meaningful numbers for layoutMore Meaningful TypographyBuild talkWeb Font SpecimenReal Web Type in Real Web ContextHow I use TwitterOn leaving VassarFont Events – Typekit BlogFfffallback – a webfont fallback appNice Web TypeTypekitAdobeThe Articulate Web Designer of Tomorrow – 24 WaysOrbital Content – A List ApartFonts in UseFacit web fontTypekit blogNice Web TypeBuild ConferenceDesign by FrontTypecast appStyle Tiles – Samatha WarrenResponsive SummitMolten Leading – Nice Web TypeTim Brown on DribbblePrinciples of Typography on the Web

Jeffrey Zeldman interviews Tim Brown of Typekit and Nice Web Type on where we are with web fonts, real web type in real web context, using Dribbble to develop a tone of voice, how saving small snippets of other people's content can turn you into a blogger, Samantha Warren's Style Tiles, molten leading orbital content, pages versus chunks, the type-driven design, web font fallbacks, the connection between leading and font family, transitioning from university work to Typekit, and much more.

Enregistré le 4 octobre 2011, bien trop tôt le matin Telechargement de l’episode LesCastCodeurs-Episode–47.mp3 Invités Fred simon @freddy33 http://twitter.com/freddy33 Blog http://freddy33.blogspot.com/ JFrog et Artifactory http://www.jfrog.com/ Sacha Labourey @sachalabourey http://twitter.com/sachalabourey Blog http://sacha.labourey.com/ Reine des abeilles à CloudBees http://www.cloudbees.com/ News Nouvelles générales http://blogs.oracle.com/otn/entry/the_most_exciting_oracle_openworld Oracle NoSQL Home http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/nosqldb/overview/index.html White paper http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/nosqldb/learnmore/nosql-database-498041.pdf Berkeley DB http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_DB Neutrinos plus vite que la lumière? http://www.sciencesetavenir.fr/fondamental/20110923.OBS0935/physique-des-neutrinos-plus-rapides-que-la-lumiere.html Oracle PaaS http://cloud.oracle.com Java 8 Java 8 http://pro.01net.com/editorial/543228/javaone-2011-oracle-eclaire-l-avenir-de-java/ Jigsaw http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/ Analyze de Jigsaw (d’il y a un an) http://blog.ippon.fr/2010/12/02/java-module-ou-la-disparition-du-classpath/ IBM sort son JDK 7 http://www.journaldunet.com/developpeur/java-j2ee/ibm-jdk-7-java-et-multithread-1011.shtml JavaFX http://javafx.com/ Duke awards Netty http://www.jboss.org/netty Arquillian http://www.jboss.org/arquillian Artifactory http://www.jfrog.com/ Les rachats Adobe rachete TypeKit http://blog.typekit.com/2011/10/03/adobe-acquires-typekit/ Adobe rachete PhoneGap http://blogs.nitobi.com/andre/index.php/2011/10/03/nitobi-enters-into-acquisition-agreement-with-adobe/ BitBucket ajoute le support Git http://blog.bitbucket.org/2011/10/03/bitbucket-now-rocks-git/ Red Hat rachete Gluster http://www.redhat.com/promo/storage/ JetBrains sort un IDE development web Astella http://blogs.jetbrains.com/idea/2011/10/jetbrains-introduces-astella-%E2%80%94-a-new-ide-for-actionscript-flex-air-and-html5-depelopment/ SaSS http://sass-lang.com/ {less} http://lesscss.org/ CloudBees CloudBees sort PaaS JavaEE http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/10/cloudbees-jeewp-ga Jenkins Developer conference http://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins-user-conference-2011.cb Google sort outil de tests de JavaScript Google JS Test http://code.google.com/p/google-js-test/ Google propose un nouveu langage Dart Dart http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dart_(programming_language) Scala c’est dur? http://goodstuff.im/yes-virginia-scala-is-hard L’histoire derriere Yes, Virginia http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes,_Virginia,_there_is_a_Santa_Claus Nous contacter Contactez-nous via twitter http://twitter.com/lescastcodeurs sur le groupe Google http://groups.google.com/group/lescastcodeurs ou sur le site web http://lescastcodeurs.com/ Flattr-ez nous (dons) sur http://lescastcodeurs.com/

In this interview, Elliot Jay Stocks explains what he looks for in typefaces and how he evaluates them. He also reveals his favorite fonts and outlines why blindly using CSS techniques are bad.

Mandy Brown joins Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin to discuss the value of support, the future of type on the web, font choice on reader platforms, what print publishers can learn from web publishers, why you've got to write, and why the future belongs to editors. Links for this episode:this is a working libraryMandy Brown (aworkinglibrary) on TwitterTypekitA List ApartA Book Apart, WelcomeTypedia: A Shared Encyclopedia of TypefacesType rendering: review, and fonts that render well « The Typekit BlogSponsored by MailChimp.

Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin are joined by Jason Santa Maria and discuss mitigating the isolation of working in your underwear by reaching out to the community, avenues for creativity, struggling with the line between good enough and perfection, focus, why speaking and teaching are important, and why sometimes the distraction of working with other people is worth it. Links for this episode:Jason Santa MariaJason Santa Maria (jasonsantamaria) on TwitterDribbble - Jason Santa MariaMighty, a Design StudioTypekitTypedia: A Shared Encyclopedia of TypefacesAIGA/NYA List ApartHappy CogWhat deux yeux have teux deux teuxday?Sponsored by An Event Apart.

I got the invite from TypeKit, signed up, and had beautiful custom fonts rocking my page in just a few minutes. I’ll show you the entire process from start to finish, as well as touch on the advantages and disadvantages. Links from Video: View Demo … Read article “#69: First Ten Minutes with TypeKit”

This week on the show we talk all about type on the web. We discuss recent developments like Typekit, Font Bureau’s Permission table, and Spiekermann’s new typeface Axel. We also talk a bit about our own idea for a non-profit type foundry, a foundry based on donations that commissions type designers to design web fonts we can release for free on the web. We’d love to hear your feedback about our non-profit type foundry idea. We’d also love to hear any news (or any corrections) about some of this new technology we’re talking about. Feel free to leave us a comment here, email us at readbetweentheleading@gmail.com, or find us on twitter @rbtlshow. More detailed shownotes can be found at http://rbtl.us/post/119503764