Long-time (since 1994) web design practitioner Jason Pamental, author of Responsive Typography from O’Reilly, is Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest. For more than an hour, the two designers geek out over responsive typography, the history of type on the web, and the explosive creative potential of the new variable fonts.

Multiple Masters. FF Meta. Storing the offsets of the curve points. The three second timeout. Why FOUT is a feature, not a bug. Compensating for the differences between the web font and the backup font. The tragedy of Typecast, the new hope of Figma. Adidas. Nick Sherman. Paula Scher. Mandy Michael. And more.

Links for this episode:

Hi, I’m Jason | Responsive Web Typography
Responsive Typography: Using Type Well on the Web: Jason Pamental: 9781491907092: Amazon.com: Books
Variable Fonts | Responsive Web Typography
The evolution of typography with variable fonts: an introduction | Responsive Web Typography
About Jason | Responsive Web Typography
Jason Pamental (@jpamental) | Twitter
Variable Fonts Experiments - a Collection by Mandy Michael on CodePen
The New School: Year One — Pentagram
David Jonathan Ross (@djrrb) | Twitter
Bello | Typekit
An Event Apart: Orlando 2018 Special Edition Web Design & UX Conference
Figma: the collaborative interface design tool.
Design with web fonts in the browser - Typecast
AmbientLightSensor - Web APIs | MDN
Jason Pamental – Medium
Jason Pamental on CodePen
jpamental (Jason Pamental) · GitHub
Jason Pamental (@jpamental) • Instagram photos and videos
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Episode 179: The Future and Past of Web Typography with Jason Pamental