Tim Brown presents “More Perfect Typography”

Tim Brown, the type manager for TypeKit, starts off with a brief overview of Aldus Manutius — a highly influential printers/typographers — and then proceeds with a series of tips, rooted within typography’s history, for ensuring that your next project’s typography stays beautiful and harmonious.

At long last, designers can use real fonts on the web. But what now? Where do we go from here? Tim Brown has been studying type on the web for seven years, and has lots of ideas to share. In this talk, Tim will guide you through using typographic tools and perspectives that will change the way you design websites. Typography is an ancient art and craft; we are merely its latest practitioners. By looking to our tradition for guidance, we might once more attain our finest typographic achievements in this new medium.

Via Ryan Dee.