6 Responses to “Chelsea Otakan: Typography & WP”

1. Jérémie
   February 22, 2011 at 5:33 pm | Reply

   I’m somewhat disappointed than a talk about Typography (the art of forming writings) is reduced to fonts. With the new @fontface, there’s a lot (and I mean a LOT) of resources about webfonts and such. And since this is some basic technical tricks, along with pure CSS, it has very few to do with WordPress itself.

   Whereas finding good resources on the rest of typographic art is much more difficult, and WP could do a lot of the work for us.

   Ok, I admit. There’s 10 seconds about wp-typography, which is the only WP thingie addressing this issue. On a 36 minutes talk.

   I would very much have liked at least half the talk about this. More on language specific typography, how to let WP switch glyphs (like WP does from single straight quote to apostrophe), when to do it, how to optimize it (the wp-typography plugin is nice, but quite heavy), how to be consistent on a website where WP is just one part of a larger equation (like when you have a dedicated forum, and ATOM feeds being pulled from elsewhere, and a wiki, etc.), and so much more.

   I think the title of the talk should be more like “Wordpress and typefaces”, and not typography, alas.
2. Rawist
   February 23, 2011 at 1:56 am | Reply

   I love that she describes how we as humans interpret words as shapes. It’s makes understanding how to create readable fonts so simple like is true from all good explanations.
   @Jeremie, Yes, typography isn’t an aspect of WordPress, per se, so the name of the video is a bit off, I’d guess it was probably filmed at a WordCamp and they wanted it to relate to WP somehow. Typography is a function of CSS, not WP, I agree. But either way, typography is so useful for us WordPress users to know. I thought Chelsea did a GREAT job with the time she had!
3. Torbjorn
   February 27, 2011 at 8:18 am | Reply

   Thank you for taking the time to put together this presentation for us. I think it is great.
4. ergenekom
   March 3, 2011 at 3:57 am | Reply

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5. beykoz evden eve nakliyat
   March 26, 2011 at 7:35 am | Reply

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6. Joe
   March 28, 2011 at 4:05 am | Reply

   Great video, thanks! I am just a poet using basic stuff, this video is very interesting.