I sympathise with the small players in any space Google enters. A little side-venture by Google would be a huge investment for anybody else

Resources from Web Directions conferences in the past

Symbols and ♥

Styling type with CSS

Lavatory and Lavender can never be friends

Two typographers ( Pierre & Damien / plmd.me ) and a pro race pilot (Stef van Campenhoudt) collaborated to design a font with a car. The car movements were tracked using a custom software, designed by interactive artist Zachary Lieberman. ( openframeworks.cc )

Download the font here: toyota.be/iqfont

More pictures here: flickr.com/photos/40243214@N05/sets/72157621047564023/ Cast: wireless, thesystemis and pleaseletmedesign

If you’ve made it through this article (congratulations, that’s no small feat!) and are now thinking to yourself, “I never thought I’d read 2,000 words on ampersands,” just remember how long it took me to write those 2,000 words. That’s 6 hours of my life I’ll never get back, folks.

The next level of this experimental typographic orgy.

Animation by Sebastian Lange Music by Forss

Flickermood was basically all done in AE/FCS - the soundtrack is from FORSS (check out his music platform at soundcloud.com and his music at forss.to).

View QuickTime version here: basisbild.de/flickermood

Visit our websites for more stuff: mynamewasgod.com and qu-int.com. Cast: Sebastian Lange

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unrestrained intergalactic planetary aviatrix Jane Fonda peeling off her space suit in the kind of weightlessness that has the viewer seeing past the errant reflection. Text spills from the head, chaotically at first, then coalesces in credit, and finally plays the coy cover up.

embed custom fonts in web pages using whatever method the browser can handle

ISO 8859-1 has become something of a de facto standard for Western sites, and may be of interest if you prefer spellings like "naïve" or "rôle" or "smörgåsbord." But if you use certain literal characters, like typographically correct quotation marks, dashes, ellipses, and so on, you'll run into trouble.