About The Authors

David Březina

David Březina is a type designer and typographer, writer and lecturer, director of Rosetta typefoundry¹, and the impresario of the TypeTalks conference. You may know him as a designer of the award-winning type family Skolar.² So far, he has designed typefaces for Cyrillic, Greek, Gujarati, Devanagari, and various extensions of Latin. Twitter: @MrBřezina³.

Jan Constantin

Jan Constantin works at Smashing Events and loves to spend his spare time writing for Smashing Magazine. He is one of the main contributors to the Smashing Media⁴ corporate website. Twitter: @Smash_Scribe⁵.

Jeremiah Shoaf

Jeremiah Shoaf is a freelance designer⁶ from Colorado. He is the curator of Typewolf⁷ and creates flat-file CMS themes for his other side project, Type & Grids⁸. He also continually updates a curated list of open-source free fonts⁹. You can follow Jeremiah on Twitter @typewolf¹⁰ and find him on Google+¹¹.

Jessica Glaser

Jessica Glaser is an academic from the University of Wolverhampton in the UK. She is a practicing graphic designer and prolific design writer. Her numerous books, many written in partnership with Carolyn Knight, focus on topics including the use of space in graphic design, mnemonics and memory devices and the understanding and creation of visual hierarchy. Her company Bright Pink Communication Design works in areas including healthcare, construction, education, financial services and the public sector.

Joseph Alessio

Joseph Alessio is a lettering artist and designer from the Detroit area. He has worked with companies such as Patagonia, Reach Records, Monotype and the Art Director’s Club. When not working, he plays 7 musical instruments and reads classic literature. You can keep up with some of what he’s doing on his Dribbble profile¹², and he often talks about life, design and current events in 140 characters¹³.

Laura Franz

Laura Franz is a Professor at UMass Dartmouth, where she teaches a wide range of type classes — including a Web Typography class in The Graduate Certificate In Web and Interaction Design. Inspired by the intersection of tradition and technology, Laura shares her web font recommendations on goodwebfonts.com¹⁴ and her typography knowledge via “Typographic Web Design: How to Think Like a Typographer in HTML and CSS¹⁵” (Wiley), “Typography for Web Designers¹⁶” (lynda.com), and “Choosing and Using Web Fonts¹⁷” (lynda.com).

About Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine¹⁸ is an online magazine dedicated to Web designers and developers worldwide. Its rigorous quality control and thorough editorial work has gathered a devoted community exceeding half a million subscribers, followers and fans. Each and every published article is carefully prepared, edited, reviewed and curated according to the high quality standards set in Smashing Magazine’s own publishing policy¹⁹.

Smashing Magazine publishes articles on a daily basis with topics ranging from business, visual design, typography, front-end as well as back-end development, all the way to usability and user experience design. The magazine is—and always has been—a professional and independent online publication neither controlled nor influenced by any third parties, delivering content in the best interest of its readers. These guidelines are continually revised and updated to assure that the quality of the published content is never compromised. Since its emergence back in 2006 Smashing Magazine has proven to be a trustworthy online source.