{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/cascadiajs/2015.cascadiajs.com/issues/65","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/cascadiajs/2015.cascadiajs.com/issues/65/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/cascadiajs/2015.cascadiajs.com/issues/65/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/cascadiajs/2015.cascadiajs.com/issues/65/events","html_url":"https://github.com/cascadiajs/2015.cascadiajs.com/issues/65","id":55958677,"number":65,"title":"Talk: Efficient Web Type, c. 1556","user":{"login":"kennethormandy","id":1581276,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1581276?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/kennethormandy","html_url":"https://github.com/kennethormandy","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kennethormandy/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kennethormandy/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kennethormandy/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kennethormandy/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kennethormandy/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kennethormandy/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kennethormandy/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kennethormandy/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kennethormandy/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/cascadiajs/2015.cascadiajs.com/labels/CSS%20Day","name":"CSS Day","color":"563d7c"},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/cascadiajs/2015.cascadiajs.com/labels/Proposal","name":"Proposal","color":"0052cc"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":3,"created_at":"2015-01-29T21:22:35Z","updated_at":"2015-03-04T06:17:34Z","closed_at":null,"body":"# Efficient Web Type, c. 1556\r\n\r\n* Name      : Kenneth Ormandy\r\n* Location  : Vancouver, Canada\r\n* Email     : hello@kennethormandy.com\r\n* Twitter   : [@kennethormandy](http://twitter.com/kennethormandy)\r\n* GitHub    : [kennethormandy](https://github.com/kennethormandy)\r\n* Url(s)    : [kennethormandy.com](http://kennethormandy.com)\r\n\r\nIt’s 1556, and Pierre Haultin is punching a completely impractical, metal font: it’s space-efficient typographically, but far too small to read in print.\r\n\r\nHe intentionally looked for the boundaries type can perform within; we’re still facing dilemmas of typographic efficiency centuries later. Today, web typography must consider measured and perceived performance: their effects influence the reading experience on screens.\r\n\r\nThis talk shares practical web font performance patterns using JavaScript and CSS, and introduces the new WOFF 2.0 format from a typographic perspective—established by Haultin in the mid-16th century. His experience reveals an overlap between type setting and web performance, relevant to designers’ increasing use of JavaScript, and developers’ of type.\r\n\r\n## Speaker Bio\r\n\r\n![](https://avatars2.githubusercontent.com/u/1581276?v=3&s=256)\r\n\r\nKenneth Ormandy organises [Type Brigade](http://typebrigade.com), Vancouver’s typography meetup, studies type design at Emily Carr University, and is a designer at [Chloi Inc.](http://chloi.io)"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/cascadiajs/2015.cascadiajs.com/issues/comments/77103025","html_url":"https://github.com/cascadiajs/2015.cascadiajs.com/issues/65#issuecomment-77103025","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/cascadiajs/2015.cascadiajs.com/issues/65","id":77103025,"user":{"login":"KatieK2","id":3174626,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3174626?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/KatieK2","html_url":"https://github.com/KatieK2","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KatieK2/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KatieK2/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KatieK2/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KatieK2/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KatieK2/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KatieK2/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KatieK2/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KatieK2/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KatieK2/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-03-04T06:17:34Z","updated_at":"2015-03-04T06:17:34Z","body":"Ha! Looks like I'm going to see this at the end of the month! ;)"}}