The difference between good typography and great typography is often that last 5%—the fine tuning of the seemingly small stuff that gives a design polish, refinement, and finesse.
In this webinar, Dan Rhatigan talks in detail about OpenType features—specifically ligatures, contextual alternates, small caps, and number styles. He reviews the history of these glyphs, explains why type designers go to the trouble to create them, and shows the effect these subtle treatments can have on your design.
As devices infiltrate more facets of our lives and our dependency on them grows, reading behaviors are changing from read then do to read while doing. This means that more and more, designing for screens means designing for glances.
So in this webinar, listen in as Monotype’s UK Type Director Dr. Nadine Chahine talks about how people read, the role of type in quick-glance contexts, and how context can impact legibility.
Since the Flashpocalypse of autumn 2015, many digital ad teams have been scrambling to start producing HTML5 campaigns. But change is hard, especially when it requires updating tools, skills and workflows.
To make the transition easier, in this webinar Monotype’s Theo Skye addresses some of the design community’s most pressing concerns about HTML5 ads.
Go behind the scenes at Hearst Magazines and find out how their digital design team overhauled its entire design process to meet aggressive new targets, increase quality and scalability, and improve user engagement in this one-hour webinar from Monotype.
Watch this Monotype webinar as our own Jamie Neely draws on his user-testing experience and lets us in on the main methods he's seen designers use to pick fonts—as well as how these have changed his own approach. It's a great and completely non-scientfic look at the creative process, full of observations, anecdotes, and insights.
Watch Mark Boulton explain how we can apply what we've learned about web and responsive design to create richer ads that engage, delight, and can be viewed on any device.
Let Jordan Moore show you what you can do to make mobile look magnificent and load like lightning.
Watch as Dan Mall shows how to establish art direction using a faster, more modular approach. And discover how lower-fidelity assets can lead to better conversations with clients.
Watch as Jason Pamental helps us refocus on the simple but important things we can control to deliver better content through RWD, and Jamie builds a responsive prototype in Typecast.
Watch Dan show us how screens affect type and what to look for when picking web fonts, and see Jamie tests fonts for a magazine layout using Typecast.
Design complex page layouts using fluid widths and share high quality HTML prototypes