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Fluid Web Typography is finished, it’s my favorite holiday, and I feel like giving something away. This is the first time in forever that I’m really going to get to sit back and enjoy Halloween without some meta project hanging over my head.

3 Copies of Speaking In Styles to Giveaway!

To celebrate the publication of Fluid Web Typography, I have 3 copies to give away of my last book, Speaking In Styles.

To enter:

1. If you are not already doing so, follow @jasonspeaking on twitter.
2. Tweet a link to this page and include #SISContest02. For example: “Get a treat, learn some CSS tricks: 3 copies of Speaking in Styles to giveaway #SISContest02″.
3. Be either the first, fifth or thirteenth person to send a tweet I will send you a copy of Speaking In Styles. It’s that easy.

I’ll periodically check the key word #SISContest02 to find the winners.

About Fluid Web Typography

The only comprehensive guide to modern web typography.
Are you tired of using the same old fonts in your Web designs?The type you use can say as much about your message as the actual words on the page. Until now, Web designers have had a limited palette of typefaces to choose from—essentially Arial (yawn), Times (yawn), and Georgia (yawwwwwn).
Design is about overcoming the limitations of a medium—the challenges of Web design and typography are no different.With Web typography undergoing massive changes, are youready for the new technologies and techniques that areavailable?In this book, Jason guides you through the latestdevelopments in Web typography, including:

• Web safe fonts, downloadable fonts, and new Web fontservices that will expand your font repertoire and providea vast catalog of untapped typefaces
• Practical methods for achieving quality typography withcurrent technologies
• Best practices for creating engaging designs usingtypographic style principals developed specifically forthe Web

Fluid Web Typography will be available online and in book stores December 2009.

Tags: CSS, Typography by jason
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I just finished reading back over the last chapter of Fluid Web Typography, and—for the first time in my writing career—I didn’t mind. Normally, by the end of a book project I’m so sick of the topic that I can barley bring myself to read one more word that I’ve written. I hear this from most of my author friends as well, but re-reading Fluid Web Typography, I was really excited about what I had written, also knowing that this is just the beginning. I have put as much as I could into this book about the current state of Web typography, but there is so much more to explore as the new Typography technologies are established and develop.

Up until the last week before I finished writing, circumstances on the ground were dramatically shifting under my feet as a I wrote. The day I turned in chapter 3 “Fonts & Typefaces”, which included 3 pages on how to use WEFT to convert TTF fonts to EOT, a new service was launched called Font Squirrel, which allows you to upload any font file and convert it not only to EOT, but SVG as well. Then a few days later, Mozilla announces support for the WOFF format in the next release of Firefox, which had only just been announced as a draft. Only days later Font Squirrel added WOFF conversion, giving us a round-trip solution for a standard that wasn’t even being discussed when I started this book. So, when I got chapter 3 back I had to rip-out huge sections , write new ones, and re-write others.

For this book, it’s all over now but the printing, and it will be off to the printers next week and in finer book stores everywhere by early December.

To everyone who has emailed me, and I haven’t gotten back to you, I apologize. The next few weeks will be spent with my family and catching up on many other tasks that I let slide while concentrating on Fluid Web Typography. If you haven’t heard from me in the next few weeks, feel free to email me again with any questions, comments, or criticism.

Also, to celebrate finishing the book, I’m going to be giving away several copies of my last book, Speaking In Styles. Keep an eye on my Twitter feed for an announcement in the next few days.

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