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    #49: Flexible Typesetting

    July 31st, 2018 · 42 minutes

    Adobe's Head of Typography Tim Brown returns to the show to discuss his new book, ‘Flexible Typography,’ and how the implications of emerging font technologies are challenging what designers can (and should!) try to control in their layouts.

    Guest Starring: Tim Brown

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    Links and Show Notes

    Flexible Typesetting
    Buy the book: Flexible Typesetting, by Tim Brown
    A Dao of Web Design · An A List Apart Article
    Variable fonts, a new kind of font for flexible design by Tim Brown
    Flexible typography with CSS locks by Tim Brown
    Mandy Michael on CodePen
    Variable Font Explorer
    Font Playground -- Play with variable fonts!
    Can I use... Support tables for Variable Fonts
    Adobe Sensei: Unified artificial intelligence and machine learning
    Tim Brown (@timbrown) on Twitter
    Typesetting (@typesetting) on Twitter