Panel presentation: Elliot Jay Stocks, Ian Coyle, Jon Tan, Richard Rutter, & Samantha Warren
I had to wait in a goddamn line to get into this presentation that was already 2/3 of the way over—the room was way packed, more packed than any other presentation that I’ve been to so far, and they weren’t letting anyone new in until some attendees came out. Barring the whole gaining entrance fiasco, this panel presentation was totally awesome! I missed a lot of the meat of the presentation, but the website has all of the info on it from what I understand: http://sxswtypography.com.
I didn’t get the opportunity to take notes during the presentation due to the complete lack of sitting room (who am I kidding, there was barely even standing room), but they were talking about the various possibilities for getting better/different fonts on the web (eg – sifr, glyphs, CSS3, etc). The basic consensus was that things are going to get awesome for web typography in the near future, that we are good enough designers that we can take the default fonts and do awesome stuff with them in the meantime, and that if you have a problem with the lack of font support on the web, tell the W3C, WaSP and Browser peeps.
The raddest thing that I got to witness was when one of the dudes from Opera stepped up to the mic in the center of the aisle to “ask a question”, and just laid down the law. He basically said that Opera has been supporting font-linking since the late 90s, and dropped a few other tidbits of web-font-related knowledge that I can’t quite recall at the moment, and then turned to the room at large and said something along the lines of “If you have a problem with the way that browsers are doing something, it is really helpful for you to tell us your ideas on the matter so that we can address it”. Awesome, new respect for Opera.
You should definitely pour yourself into the website for this panel—it’s pretty informative and interesting.
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