FontCast 2 — Webfonts Week: An Interview with Simon Daniels of Microsoft
Webfonts Week continues as we chat with a guy who has been instrumental in Microsofts focus on screen typography since 1995. Si Daniels was there for the development of Microsofts Core fonts for the Web, the EOT format, and the ClearType technology and fonts. We talk about where he sees Web typography headed and I ask the question that’s on the mind of everyone with a stake in Web embeddable fonts: when will Internet Explorer support the WOFF format? fontfeed.com
FontCast #5 — Webfonts Week: Erik Spiekermann
Still speaking a-mile-a-minute and showing no signs of slowing down, Erik Spiekermann coyly calls himself an old guy. Its true that hes been around for every incarnation of type — metal, film, and digital — but hes no fuddy-duddy when it comes to new technology and new methods. Spiekermann embraced the fledgling world of digital type early on when he founded FontShop 20 years ago, and hes just as forward-thinking now about licensing type in an era of Web-embeddable fonts. I pulled him aside one morning during the Typ09 conference in Mexico City to talk about the interesting parallels between using web fonts as a service and typesetting the old-fashioned way. Learn more: fontfeed.com/archives/webfonts-week-an-interview-with-erik-spiekermann/ fontfeed.com/archives/tag/webfonts-week/