CSS3 Typography Workshop: Create Stunning Modern & Retro Typography from Typekit

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When: May 19th at 10am-2pm
Where: Adobe HQ in San Francisco
Who: Sean McBride (Engineer + Dev @typekit)
What:  An @font-face CSS3 Workshop to teach us how to create gorgeous typography using:

  • text shadows
  • transitions
  • outlines
  • text gradients
  • trendy web fonts
  • retro typography
  • modern typography
  • and more!

We will be serving brunch, coffee and as always, there will be amazing giveaways!

Eventbrite - CSS3 Typography: Create Stunning Modern & Retro Typography, by Typekit 

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About Sean McBride:
Sean McBride, engineer and web developer at Typekit, will teach how to create gorgeous modern and retro typography for the web using @font-face and CSS.

He’s excited about bringing more from our rich design heritage to the web using web fonts and new CSS3 features available today. Before Typekit, Sean worked at Google as a User Experience Web Developer and taught HTML/CSS/JS within the company.

About Typekit:
Built around web standards, our service 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. We are also actively integrating Typekit into hosted platforms—such as WordPress, TypePad, and Posterous—so that anyone with a website can use real fonts.

* Tickets are transferrable but non-refundable

The CSS3 Reading Group: Let’s Learn Together

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We are busy web professionals, working in an industry that is rapidly growing and expanding.  We are required to stay on top of the latest techniques to provide gorgeous design and cleaner code to our audiences.

CASCADE SF has set aside the time for you to sharpen your skills and makes learning intermediate to advanced CSS fun and interactive – All you have to do is show up!

About the Event:
The CSS3 Reading Group: April 25, 2012 at 6:30pm:

We will review Peter Gasston’s The Book of CSS3 – A Developer’s Guide to the Future of Web Design“.

The event is divided into 3 sessions over the next few Reading Group meetings –  first one starts Wednesday, April 25th and will cover:

  • Introducing CSS3
  • Media Queries
  • Selectors
  • Pseudo-Classes & Pseudo Elements

*Levels: Intermediate to Advanced CSS.