GivingTuesday Roundup: 12 Typography Resources on SlideShare

In this day and age of global recognition for brands, internet and social networks are playing a key role in bringing corporations from different regions of the world together. As the more brands emerge, the circle of consumers’ needs also expands. To give exposure to both the sellers and the customers, online social networks introduce advance tools and platforms to establish ties between them. In 2012, LinkedIn took acquisition of a slide hosting service based on Web 2.0 known as SlideShare. Founded in 2006, it is considered the world’s largest community for knowledge sharing through presentations and documents.

Not only with a SlideShare.net account, you can upload and share files such as, presentations, PDFs, resumes, portfolios, and conference discussions, you can also upload them right from your LinkedIn account. The site supports all formats including pptx, pps, docs, pdf, odp, odt, keynote, iWork pages, as well as, adding YouTube videos in presentations and add audio. All these elements are so engaging that SlideShare is now counted among the top 120 most-visited websites in the world. Just in the fourth quarter of 2013, the site averaged 60 million unique visitors a month and 215 million page views.

With such favorably escalating figures, of course, experts from a variety of fields are finding this website extremely useful to connect with a wider audience to share their knowledge with. Graphic design and web design are no exceptions either. You can find hundreds of thousands of resources to learn and increase your knowledge of the various design elements. You can surf through them more accurately by using filters such as the file type and the time it was uploaded.

This is the reason why I decided to bring some stimulating data from that forum to my readers’ attention regarding typography. From the ten commandments of typography to the principles of typeface classification, we have gone through much together. Now it’s time you firm up your grasp on typography design for good. Some interesting presentations I found on  SlideShare are as follows:

1. Typography Essential: Part I

This presentation by Jennifer Janviere sheds light on the history of written and printed communication, how typography functions in graphic design and the essential terminology of typography.

2. Modernist Typography and the Swiss Grid

Carlo Giannasca, partner and head of Environments, at Frost Design created this presentation to share his insight on the basics of modernist typography and how the Swiss grip system is used effectively.

3. The Power Of Typography

This compelling presentation by [x]cube Labs gives detailed insight into Typeface and how Typographic art makes language visible. From the font history to some tried and tested font combinations, it covers a lot of good stuff.

4. Web Typography: A (Brief) Review

Dan Rubin, who is a designer, photographer, author, and speaker at webgraph analyzes where certain aspects of the web typographic structure are today. The slides were basically created for a discussion at Refresh Lauderdale except for the references section in the end.

5. Tricks of the Trade: Kinetic Typography

Kinetic typography, also known as “Moving text,” is explained by Iphia Henry. She describes the animation technique of combining motion and text to express ideas using video animation. Such text intends to convey a particular idea, theme, or feelings.

6. Responsive Typography II

These slides were used for a presentation given by Clarissa Peterson at Bmoresponsive on May 9, 2014, and at ConvergeSE on May 2, 2014.

7. Web Fonts: Demystified

This presentation was given at the Western MA WordPressmeetups in May, 2012 by Mel Choyce. It features a brief introduction to web fonts, their integration into WordPress, and the ability to consider the right web font.

8. Web typography

This presentation by Matthew Buchanan is an old one, but covers some essential topics related to good typographic practices on the web. It was presented at the Auckland Web Meetup, August16, 2007.

9. Beautiful Layouts Through Beautiful Type

This presentation by Jeff Croft was given in 2009 and explained web typography using CSS from Delve:UI

10. A Crash Course in Typography

Typography affects people without people being aware of it. This presentation is a crash course by Migle Migle touching on various important aspects of typography. It teaches you how to notice typography in the digital and physical world around you.

11. Web Typography Fundamentals: From Gutenberg to Google v1

This is a pretty comprehensive resource for typographic history, vocabulary, contrast, technology, and tips compiled and published by Bill C. English.

12. Type of the Web (With WordPress)

This presentation by Tadpole Collective elucidates on the usability of CSS font-face for the web designers as it gives them more choice than they ever had before. It also features the basics of typographic theory for the web as well a

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