Jared Benson's blog
Adobe acquires Typekit!
For those of you who might not be following the Adobe Max conference right now, they announced this morning that Adobe has acquired Typekit!
From Typekit CEO Jeffrey Veen's announcement email:
"Just a few moments ago, Adobe’s CTO Kevin Lynch took the stage at their annual MAX conference and explained the company’s Creative Cloud strategy. Part of that announcement is very big news for us: Typekit has been acquired by Adobe.
We are thrilled. There honestly is no better place for us to continue building our platform. But perhaps even more significantly, this represents a huge step forward in bringing fonts to the web...
Converting print fonts to web fonts
Excerpt from GigaOm:
"On Friday, I heard Jonathan Hoefler, one of the founders of the massively respected type foundry Hoefler & Frere-Jones, explain exactly what it takes to turn a typeface designed for print into a real web font. And it was amazing.
He was appearing at Ampersand — a conference in Brighton, England, dedicated to the art of web fonts — where he stood on stage and announced that the studio has now converted 100 percent of its typefaces for use on the web.
The news was greeted with a sage nod by attendees, but in truth it should have been met with crazed whoops, wild cheers and yelps of astonishment — because it’s really a task of herculean proportions."
TypeCon 2011
So who's headed to TypeCon? They've just posted their schedule for the 5-day typography extravaganza taking place in New Orleans, July 5-10. If you've never gone, TypeCon is a blast and very inspiring. Half the fun is meeting up with people you're interacting with daily on Typophile. You'll be glad you went! Full details here: http://www.typecon.com/program.
Which speaker/event are you most looking forward to?
Typophile will be offline later today (6/11) for maintenance, 12am EST/9:00pm PST
We'll be taking Typophile offline at 12:00AM EST (9:00PM PST) today (11 June 2011) for maintenance and software upgrades. We plan to have everything patched and back online as soon as possible, but may be down for most of Sunday 6/12 to perform all necessary tests.
No site design/function changes are expected at this time.
Direct any inquiries to me at typophile@punchcut.com (or comment below.)
Thank you!
//jared
Did you know?
Did you know of a few hidden views into Typophile? Mind you, these aren't polished views, so spare us the design critique, but might still satisfy the curious who are looking to discover new pathways into the Typophile archives...
http://typophile.com/frontpage - Recent content on Typophile, in blog form (This view may be good if you'd rather avoid the flash home page until we get it rebuilt...)
http://typophile.com/archive - Displays a historical view of content sorted by Month & Year
http://typophile.com/popular/today - Shows which threads are getting the most views today.
http://typophile.com/glossary - Displays an alphabetical list of all content
New feature! Marking content on Typophile [BETA]
I'd like to announce a new AND VERY BETA feature on Typophile we're calling "marks."
We've heard a lot of requests for this one. This new feature will allow you to mark content that you're interested in following in real-time. Think of it as a Typophile-specific bookmarking system.
Typophile Marks are for signed-in users only. Once you're signed in, you'll see a few small changes to the Typophile UI. First, at the top-right of forum topics and blog posts, you'll see a little bookmark icon. Click the icon to mark that thread.
Under "My account" you'll see a new item called "My marks" - This does exactly what you'd expect - It returns a list of the content that you've marked. You can also access it directly at http://typophile.com/mymarks.
Comments RSS re-enabled
For those of you who've missed being able to subscribe to individual topics, we've re-enabled it. Look for the icon in your browser's URL bar, or modify any URL by inserting "crss/" in this manner:
typophile.com/node/######
to
typophile.com/crss/node/######
Typography explained on Fast Company
A great reference to keep on hand.
The IMG tag is now allowed in posts, to allow external image linking like this one.
Blockquotes and Comment Links
File under: better late than never?
Got a few site tweaks done tonight. Thanks to Nick Sherman for the requests:
1. Added the "blockquote" tag, so now you can quote each other consistently.
2. Comments are now directly linkable! The timestamp at left is now a direct link to that comment. Copy the link using your browser and do what you will with it.
I'm no web developer - I'm a designer, and extremely busy in the day job, so thanks for the patience.
//jared
Voting on Typophile Threads & Comments
You may have noticed some up/down arrows on the right of Forums threads & comments. [EDIT: They have since been removed until we have a better reason to use them.] I've turned on voting, but ultimately what we do with this is up to all of us. As Typophile continues to grow with hundreds of thousands of pieces of content, we're going to need some new tools to start to sift signal from noise. A few of my initial thoughts and ideas on how we might want to use this...
UPvotes
- View quality content, not just the stuff that's popular
- See top voted content by day, week, month, all time
- Users with lots of upvotes on their content get status within the community.
- Type ID: The community identifies who solved the ID, which could feed into a leaderboard.
Search is fixed
Finally got search fixed. Accidentally introduced a glitch while we were doing the upgrade, and hadn't had the time to address until now.
Typophile Will Be Down Tomorrow (Sat 1/9/10)
Tomorrow we'll be taking Typophile down for a few hours to perform a vital upgrade. Please take advantage of the downtime to work on that killer new font that will amaze us later this year.
Wish us luck!
The Typophile Team
Nice Type Tuesday 6 | Motion Design Love
Take time out of your busy day to enjoy some type in motion. After all, it is Tuesday.
http://www.motiondesignlove.com/2010/01/nice-type-tuesday-6/
Tweet your Typophile Posts
Great news! We've got Twitter integration up and running. If you go into your profile via:
My Account > Edit > Social Networks
you'll see this new panel:
If you enter in your Twitter username and password, every time you post a new Forum Topic or Blog to Typophile, it will update your Twitter account with the new content! Tweets are not sent when commenting.
Note: Twitter account information is encrypted and it's passing through to Twitter.
You can edit the format of how tweets are posted by manipulating the Text Format field.
Have fun!
//jared
Typophile TypeID (@typeid) on Twitter
Happy New Year everyone!
Got the first rev of a pet project working yesterday. It's not perfect yet, but now you can encourage people out there to submit Type ID requests via Twitter.
More here: http://typophile.com/node/65805
New York Times: Turkish Edition on Vimeo
You've seen this concept before. A city made of type. This time for the New York Times. http://vimeo.com/6753268
"Blog This" bookmarklet for Typophile
Zara and I were talking recently about how much handier it would be to be able to spontaneously blog to Typophile when we find great content on other sites.
It's taken some trial and error but I'm happy to say that these work! Drag these links to your browser bar and click them whenever you want to share on Typophile. They've been tested on Firefox (Mac) and Safari (Mac) so let me know if you get unexpected results in another browser.
(Note: You must be logged in at Typophile for these links to work.)
New Site Updates
Got the Typophile crew together today and made a few quick updates:
1. Browse recent users via http://typophile.com/avatars
2. Dig into content via http://typophile.com/tags
3. Fixed a bug keeping http://typophile.com/news or http://typophile.com/aggregator from running properly. (Let us know what type blogs you'd like to see in this space!)
4. Other behind-the-scenes fixes.
Watch this space for more updates as they unfold. And keep tagging those posts!
//jared
Content Tagging
Got content tagging up and running today. Next time you're posting, use it! This is the first step toward creating some cool new ways to sift through Typophile content.
User icons
Yesterday we located and fixed a bug that prevented a small subset of users from changing their user icons. If you've been wanting to change but the system has been giving you errors, give it another try. It's been fixed.
//jared
Psst
iPhone users: http://typophile.com/m
Fixing Search...
Some of you may notice a new link on the right hand side on the site, under your user name. While we're patching the disconnected pipes in Typophile's search engine, we're providing the "Search Typophile", which actually works.
New Fontstruction: Singularity
Shown above: Singularity and Singularity Ligatures
I'm finally pulling the trigger on something I've been working on in my spare moments. What can I say? I love a gnarly ink trap.
It's a free download from Fontstruct. Here are the links:
Singularity - Base font; 206 characters
Singularity Ligatures - 120+ Ligatures
Singularity Chunk - with even gnarlier ink traps; 206 characters
Enjoy! Let me know what you think.
