Authors: B: Tim Brown

Tim Brown is Type Manager for Typekit. He studies, promotes, and advances the craft of web typography on a daily basis, shares what he knows at Nice Web Type, and helps web designers with tools like Web Font Specimen and Modular Scale. Follow Tim on Twitter @nicewebtype

Articles By This Author

More Meaningful Typography

Issue 327May 3, 2011

Designing with modular scales is one way to make more conscious, meaningful choices about measurement on the web. Modular scales work with—not against—responsive design and grids, provide a sensible alternative to basing our compositions on viewport limitations du jour, and help us achieve a visual harmony not found in compositions that use arbitrary, conventional, or easily divisible numbers. Tim Brown shows us how.

Real Web Type in Real Web Context

Issue 296November 17, 2009

Web fonts are here. Now that browsers support real fonts in web pages and we can license complete typefaces for such use, it's time to think pragmatically about how to use real fonts in our web projects. Above all, we need to know how our type renders in screens, in web browsers. To that end, Tim Brown has created Web Font Specimen, a handy, free resource web designers and type designers can use to see how typefaces will look on the web.