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I just received confirmation that my ‘Ban Helvetica: The Brave New World of Web Fonts’ presentation has been accepted into MinneWebCon on April 12, 2010 at the University of Minnesota.

I’ll be covering; optimizing fonts for web use, browser compatibility, licensing, and answering your questions.

Registration is a very reasonable $200.

I’ll be demo-ing Kernest to Minneapolis’ Refresh MN web design group at 7pm on Monday February 1, 2010 – at the refactr offices on 11 4th St NE, Minneapolis (above the Bulldog NE)

This weekend I facilitated a session on web fonts technologies at Minnebar entitled Ban Helvetica – Or Why Ignoring Web Safe Fonts Makes Your Website Better

My mind map of all the web font technologies, @font-face service providers, and common licenses.

Here’s a photo of the entire diagram from Robyn Flach (thanks Robin!)

“Garrick Van Buren dissected the diagram above in a discussion about not worrying so much about ‘web-safe’ fonts. Great session!”

My talking about the mind map.

Chank talking about how he handles embedded font licensing.

Thanks to Jamie Thingelstad for the great shots.

Ban Helvetica – Or Why Ignoring Web Safe Fonts Makes Your Website Better if you’ll be attending MinneBar this Saturday at Best Buy’s Corporate Headquarters, this is the 11am Design session.

More interviews from all the Minnesota entrepreneurs that presented at the MIMA Summit over at MN Tech Startups.com

I’ll be demonstrating Kernest at the 2009 MIMA Summit, 11-noon on October 5 (session details).

On the off chance you need another reason to attend – Seth Godin and Jackie Huba will be keynoting.

Thanks to Ben from MinneDemo and MIMA for extending an invitation

Thanks to Stephen Coles for recording the audio

Marina Chaccur shot this photo of the 11 person panel

“I got to meet local font designer rockstar Chank Diesel yesterday!” – Mykl Roventine

Wow. Packed room at The Foundation today to talk web fonts and Kernest.

Excellent questions from the audience on licensing (up to the individual foundry/type designer), printability (probably not), and why Kernest doesn’t allow direct downloads (cause it shouldn’t).

Huge thanks for Chank Diesel for stopping by and sharing; his thoughts on what @font-face means for type designers like himself, how this is as much of an opportunity as OpenType was a few years ago, and snapping this photo of me pointing at CSS code.

Now it’s time to pack the overnight bag and head to Atlanta.

I received confirmation late Friday that I’ll be on the TypeCon 2009’s Web Fonts panel on Sunday July 19th.

Perfect timing considering I’m on track to open the front doors on Thursday July 16th during the New Web Typography event at The Foundation.
If you’ll be in Minneapolis on the 16th and haven’t registered yet, call 612-787-3200.

Drop me a line if you want to chat for a few minutes after either event.