Some new, classic types for the web – with pizza
It had to do with pizza.
Font Bureau’s Nick Sherman dropped by my hotel room at TypeCon in Los Angeles. He read on Twitter that I had pizza left over – and he’s a major pizza freak.
I thought I was a pizza freak, but I don’t even come close (video below).
Nick said he was up late working on something big.
Turns out this big thing is the launch of Webtype, a collaboration between Font Bureau, Ascender Corporation, Roger Black, Petr van Blokland and DevBridge.
fb’s offerings
Font Bureau makes incredible fonts – and some of their best, Benton, Interstate, Miller – are now available as reasonably-priced, optimized-for-screen Webfonts that can make html pages zing with class.
Read more about it here.
adobe throws their hat in
Meanwhile – over at TypeKit (which carries web versions of my own fonts) – the team at Adobe has also optimized some of their classics for web use.
This includes Myriad, Minion, Chaparral and (of course) Trajan. Plus, the wonderful Adobe Garamond is available thru their free trial plan. More info here.
No Adobe Caslon yet. But hey, I can dream.
Not our pizza: Photo by Nick Sherman, from his blog: Pizza Rules!
