Typography on the iPad

Reminds me of the Stanford address where Jobs claims that computers may not have had typography if he'd not done a calligraphy course. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc</a> I'm sure the Parc guys that founded Adobe would beg to differ.

Typography has always been a bit of a black art for me. In the end, I usually just settle on something that (I think) doesn't look terrible. Anyone have some basic and intermediate tutorials/guides, sites, and book recommendations?

Typographers are an interesting breed, I would have never noticed any of these details. But they make a big difference rather surprised apple isn't interested in this area anymore

Idea: I should write a Knuth-Plass patch for WebKit!<p><i>takes a gander at RenderBlockLineLayout.cpp</i><p>Never mind then. The number of special cases in there is frightening.

Any one interested in typography, a good documentary to watch is Helvetica.

Although it's probably not the author's fault the typesetting of the article is dreadful too. Because of this the article seems less authoritative.

An interesting read, imo.<p>Via MacStories <a href="http://www.macstories.net/ipad/the-ipad-from-a-typographer-point-of-view/" rel="nofollow">http://www.macstories.net/ipad/the-ipad-from-a-typographer-p...</a>

I don't know about the rest of you, but attempting to open this in Chrome on Linux totally toasts my browser, i.e. nothing will load any more.

Chorded keyboards didn't work because they had <i>keys</i>. Smartphones didn't work because they had not enough <i>board</i>. So, if you come up with something that's larger than a smartphone and can run a chorded keyboard without keys, you use...<p>...yes, you use qwerty. It's not just the typography. Typing in iPad is stupid, too.

It still baffles me that people <i>want</i> to read books on the iPad in first place.<p>Reading on a backlit screen is well known to tire your eyes very quickly, due to the low resolution and (afaik) because the eyes' Rhodopsin depletes faster while staring into a light source.<p>I have heard people arguing that we spend half our days in front of a computer-screen anyways, but that is a different kind of usage. During computer use the eye is mostly scanning and rarely reading chunks of text longer than a page at once. Book reading is a different story, as anyone who has tried to do that on a backlit screen can confirm.<p>Consequently this argument about (Book-)typography misses the point for me. If you want a good reading experience then get an e-ink device or stick with paper. Even the best font can only marginally reduce the inherent problems with staring a backlit screen for extended periods of time...