Part 7: The reader’s right—preferences and light modes
7 Jul, 2020
There are a couple of things I’d like to show you this week. One is a relatively small but important...
My name is Jason Pamental, currently working as Principal Designer on the design systems team at Chewy. You can read more about me over here, or you can explore my collected conference talks, web typography tips, podcasts and articles, and blog posts. A bit about my dogs, cycling, and musings—but mostly the site is about typography.
Since the introduction of Variable Fonts in late 2016, I’ve spent a good deal of time researching, writing about, and working with them, and am convinced they are the future of type—and indeed design—on the web. I’ve designed demos for Type Network and Monotype (with a demo page I wrote and designed), spoken about that at Adobe Typekit’s ‘Typekitpalooza’ internal conference, been quoted about them by Microsoft and in Communication Arts, and presented about them at An Event Apart, TYPO Labs Berlin, and many more.
7 Jul, 2020
There are a couple of things I’d like to show you this week. One is a relatively small but important...
29 May, 2020
This week is one I’ve been awaiting for quite some time. Really since before I even started this process. It’s...
18 May, 2020
This week has a big update to the typographic scaling that features some very new CSS about which I’m pretty...
Typgraphic Magic
Type is the voice of our words—and the majority of what we put on screen (the rest is dog pics...
29 May, 2022
We called her on a Sunday morning, thinking we wanted a companion to your cousin Tristan. As crazy seems...
Jason is a compelling and insightful speaker. His inspiring demonstrations show the great potential we now have for creating beautiful, truly responsive typography.
Rob McKaughan, Typographer, Advanced Reading Technology, Microsoft