{"id":412,"date":"2009-11-30T13:05:58","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T17:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.useragentman.com\/blog\/?p=412"},"modified":"2010-09-03T09:53:37","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T13:53:37","slug":"introducing-the-type-rendering-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.useragentman.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/30\/introducing-the-type-rendering-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing: The Type Rendering Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_416\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-416\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-416 \" title=\"Type Rendering Project Logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.useragentman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/r-300x300.png\" alt=\"Type Rendering Project Logo\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.useragentman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/r-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.useragentman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/r-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.useragentman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/r.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-416\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span><\/span><\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Although this blog wasn&#8217;t meant to be a forum on <em>just<\/em> CSS font-embedding, it is a topic of great interest to me and has been the inspiration of a few articles here (my article on <a href=\"\/blog\/2009\/11\/29\/how-to-detect-font-smoothing-using-javascript\/\">JavaScript font-smoothing detection<\/a> being the latest).  As a result, I have been very fortunate in meeting a lot of interesting and like-minded individuals who want to make the web a better place for typography.<\/p>\n<p>One of the more vocal ones, <a href=\"http:\/\/paulirish.com\/\">Paul Irish<\/a>, asked me to join a project that will allow developers to <strong>find ways to make web type look better <em>right now<\/em><\/strong>.  Other members include web font blogger Tim Brown of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicewebtype.com\/\">Nice Web Type<\/a> and Ethan Dunham of the excellent font resource <a href=\"http:\/\/fontsquirrel.com\/\">Font Squirrel<\/a>.  The result is <a href=\"http:\/\/typerendering.com\/\">The Type Rendering Project<\/a> &#8211; we\u2019ve set some goals and would like to open up dialogue with you to fulfill them. We&#8217;re asking for your participation, and lots of expert advice, to fulfill these intentions. If you are interested and are a Twitter user, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/typerendering\">follow us<\/a> &#8211;  and more importantly, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=I+care+about+how+type+looks+on+the+web,+so+I+follow+%40typerendering.\">tell folks you care about how type looks on websites<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join a project that will allow developers to <strong>find ways to make web type look better <em>right now<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,9,38,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-font-face","category-css","category-css3","category-fonts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.useragentman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.useragentman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.useragentman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.useragentman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.useragentman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.useragentman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1553,"href":"https:\/\/www.useragentman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions\/1553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.useragentman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.useragentman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.useragentman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}