Whether you are building products for the screen or for print, type is often the main channel of communication between your product and your users. Modern typography has a rich history dating back to the invention of movable type in 1450 A.D., but many lessons were lost when type made the jump to the screen.
The talk will be a mix of theory and practical advice on using type to direct and delight...
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Whether you are building products for the screen or for print, type is often the main channel of communication between your product and your users. Modern typography has a rich history dating back to the invention of movable type in 1450 A.D., but many lessons were lost when type made the jump to the screen.
The talk will be a mix of theory and practical advice on using type to direct and delight users' brains.
About Idan:
Idan is one of those designer/developer hybrid unicorns. By day he's the cofounder of Skills, by night he's a core developer of the Django web framework, which powers the sites of companies like Instagram, Pinterest, and Mozilla. He can often be found preaching the benefits of learning multiple disciplines at conferences abroad and at home. He writes longform at gazit.me (http://gazit.me/) and shortform as @idangazit (http://twitter.com/idangazit), and has various creative outlets (http://gazit.me/colophon/) around the web.