Typography

As a product designer I generally do my best to help people find and think about content, not fonts. My preference is for clear, practical typography that supports a product's visual identity and adds no friction between a person and their goal.

Utopia is a new concept in fluid type and space. James explores the joy of fluid type scales from a designer's perspective.

Using variable fonts in the real production context is tricky. Learn how we achieved it for the new Ampersand website.

It’s been a while – nearly three years, in fact – since we last brought our typography-fuelled Ampersand conference to the web designers and type enthusiasts of the world...

I love typography - there, I said it. Although whilst I can’t confess to being a true type nerd (mentioning no names Rich Rutter), I am happy to spend plenty of time geeking out over x-heights, ligatures, weights and a whole host of other tiny details to find the ‘perfect’ typeface.

Typography - it’s at the heart of the web experience but with so many different options available it’s sometimes hard to know where to start when designing. Font stacking, embedding or web fonts? And what’s more important, brand or user experience? And what does this all mean for the designer who just wants to try and make type look great across as many devices as possible without losing their mind?

I’m writing this on a Boing 747 headed back to Heathrow, having spent four splendid days in New York.

The Ampersand web typography conference is coming to New York in November, with a fabulous new line-up of brilliant speakers.

In the run-up to this year’s Ampersand web typography conference we're offering two fantastic, highly practical, full-day workshops.

We’re really pleased to announce the full schedule for this year’s Ampersand web typography conference.

We're thrilled to say that this year's Ampersand conference has now sold out! We're looking forward to welcoming everyone to Brighton next month for our second year of type-enthused festivities.