Episode 165: Webfont Festival with Bram Stein

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Episode 165: Webfont Festival with Bram Stein

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Oct 30, 2017

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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.

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Oct 30, 2017

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