Hui Jing Chen

As more people move into the online world, it is more crucial than ever to ensure that the world's diverse written languages have their place on the web. 

Typesetting on the web doesn't involve metal sorts and composing sticks. Instead, we use web fonts and CSS. In this talk, we'll cover the various font properties which, over time, have been continually evolving, giving developers better control over the typography of their projects, as well as even better performance with variable fonts. 

We will also look at how modern CSS techniques can be used to design versatile layouts that can adapt well regardless of viewport. From the rendering of individual characters, the fonts which support them, and laying them out on web pages, let's see how we can build a web that is truly world wide.

2019 Lithuania

You Gotta Love Frontend

Typesetting for a Global Web

2019

This talk covers the intricacies of ensuring web fonts display and are laid out correctly regardless of language.

Typography was defined by Gerrit Noordzij as writing with prefabricated letters. More than half of the content on the web is in English even though native English speakers make up less than 5% of the world's population. 

English only has 26 letters, but writing systems across the world use many more letters and characters, many of which are laid out in different directions as well. 

This talk covers the intricacies of ensuring web fonts display and are laid out correctly regardless of language, and how some of these layouts can translate across writing systems for creative art direction on the web.

JSHeroes

Web typography: a non-English perspective

Traces the parallel history of western and eastern typography from handwriting to the internet age.

This talk traces the parallel history of western and eastern typography from handwriting to the internet age, setting the context for how the web is a brand new medium for typesetting. 

CSS allows us to implement advanced typographic features and multi-directional layouts, that not only benefits internationalisation, but opens up a myriad of options for creative and interesting layouts in general as well.