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Thanks to CSS3 web design techniques and font-foundries, the ability to create gorgeous typography and beautiful design for browsers, is more accessible than ever.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Web is about content–finding it, delivering it, exploring it, and experiencing growth and possibility within it. What’s the fun of using a site that takes forever to load and is difficult to read? A poorly designed product can be the single deciding factor for whether a user stays on your page or makes a dishearteningly rapid exit. Fortunately, with the use of new code, integrating gorgeous design and Web typography into various browsers is easier than ever.<\/p>\n

Since 1996 when CSS1 was first enacted, the Web has seen historical changes. Initially, there were only 9 fonts browsers read by default. The focus was mostly on legibility and monitor-only interactive readability.<\/p>\n

Fast-forward 15 years: Designers now have the ability to utilize a multitude of typefaces from various font foundries to make the Web a more beautiful place. Comic Sans can, for instance, have embossed effects and gradients. Pages load faster, and the Internet is more beautiful, more interactive, and (most importantly) more readable.<\/p>\n

“We are in a time like no other. Through the use of CSS3 we are able to make art from code,” said Tantek \u00c7elik<\/a>, Web Standards Lead at Mozilla and representative to W3C HTML and CSS Working Groups, at CASCADE SF\u2019s HTML5 presentation, on July 2010.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Want to make the Web more beautiful? Learn how-to Saturday, May 19th at Adobe HQ in San Francisco, CA.<\/a><\/p>\n

This Saturday, May 19th, 2012 at Adobe HQ<\/a>, Sean McBride<\/a>, Engineer and Developer at Typekit<\/a> will teach San Francisco how to create gorgeous web typographic posters, magazines, and effects using CSS3 text shadows, transitions, outlines, text-gradients, and a host of other need-to-knows. McBride’s talk at this year’s SXSW Interactive was highly recommended by developers who attended, and we anticipate a similarly enthusiastic turnout–sign up today.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/cascadesfworkshop.eventbrite.com\/
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CASCADE SF: San Francisco\u2019s Web Design & CSS3 Organization<\/h4>\n

Founded in 2009, by Andi Galpern<\/a>, web designer and technology events organizer, CASCADE SF,<\/a> @cascadesf<\/a>, promotes quality and innovation to teach latest tips and tricks from the top minds in the web industry.<\/p>\n

Andi Galpern<\/a> also recently launched \u201cThe Design Business<\/a>\u201d dedicated to teach designers how to think like entrepreneurs and communicate more effectively with teams.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Typekit: The easiest way to add real fonts to your website.<\/h4>\n

Built around web standards, Typekit gives designers and developers a subscription-based library of hosted, high-quality fonts to use on their websites. They have over 250,000 customers including some of the largest sites on the web today: The New York Times, Conde Nast, IGN, Twitter, and many others. It is also actively integrating Typekit into hosted platforms\u2014such as WordPress, TypePad, and Posterous\u2014so that anyone with a website can use real fonts.<\/p>\n

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