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Paul Irish
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Description:
Web typography has come a long way in the past 18 months. Cufón has dethroned sIFR, @font-face browser support has closed in on 95% of all users, new font formats of CWT and WOFF were discussed and implemented, and webfont services like Typekit have made the difficult easy. Challenges still remain, but our opportunities for making the web beautiful are increasing rapidly.
Discover the best practices for using custom typography with CSS3 @font-face in your web work. Learn the best path for cross-browser compatibility, the licensing landscape, the inconvenient rendering issues, and strategies to employ to make sure your design will look rock solid.
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Comments on this Talk
Patrick Haney,
19 Feb 04:54 PM
There's no question that the content Paul presented was superb, informative, and in depth. He covered all the important things with great examples, excellent visuals, and useful bullet points (though they were a bit overwhelming on some slides). His Keynote slides were top notch.
Paul's presentation flow was also good, though a few times it was too quick or too slow. That said, it's easy to see how knowledgeable and passionate he is about the topic, as that really shined through during his presentation, more so than most other speakers allow. He did a good job of keeping the audience engaged throughout, even if he went over our heads at times with JavaScript code on screen.
I suppose my only suggestion for Paul would be to start off the presentation with a little more of an overview of what was about to be covered. He had an early slide with something similar, but skipped over it in order to jump into the content. While he meant well, I feel that some of the audience members would've liked to have gotten a feel for what was coming, how it all related, and a general overview that they could understand before jumping into code.
Overall though, Paul rocked us with his take on typography on the web. I thoroughly enjoyed his enthusiasm, all of the great content he presented, and his ability to work with his audience.

Paul has moments of being a BRILLIANT speaking force. I love it when he adds his own language and even dances a bit. That personality keeps an audience awake and engaged, especially when the material starts to get a bit technical. However, those sparky moments lulled when they needed to spike, and made the more difficult information difficult to follow. A little song & dance around the subset & data uri info — Now that would have ROCKED!!! Paul's dance moves are really cool, his own language improvisations make things fun but there needs to be more of it scattered throughout, especially for this subject matter. Overall, though, I gleaned some interesting info out of presentation and am glad that I attended. I'll gladly pay $5 to see more dancing. ;)