On Web Typography with Jason Santa Maria

Jason Santa Maria of Vox Media & A Book Apart discusses his new book, On Web Typography, with host Jeffrey Zeldman. The two designers discuss writing on trains, placing objects and playing with type, the new web designer, designing the Typekit logo, editorial design and Vox Media, three years and two editors, heavenly italics, type classification systems, Dieter Rams and "touch-ability," design as strategy, hitting it with the pretty stick, and more.

Links for this episode:

• jasonsantamaria.com
  
• A Book Apart
  
• On Web Typography
  
• Typedia (a "'wikipedia' for typography" by JSM and friends)
  
• Typekit
  
• Vox Media blog
  
• about Vox Media (Wikipedia)
  
• The Verge (a Wikipedia content property)
  
• Amtrak
  
• Mark Simonson's type site
  
• About Dieter Rams (Wikipedia)
  
• About Good Design (Dieter Rams)
  
• On the Typekit logo
  
• Fonts by type designer Joshua Darden
  
• Ellen Lupton
  
• Amazon.com