Richard Rutter

A man with short hair wearing a hoodie and a little bit of a smile.

Richard Rutter is a designer living in Brighton, UK. In 2005, he co-founded Clearleft, now one of the world’s leading digital design consultancies.

Richard loves to combine his fascination for typography with a belief in the Web as a force for good. As a self-appointed web typography evangelist, Richard is chief organiser of Clearleft’s Ampersand web typography conferences. He also co-founded Fontdeck, a pioneering web font service.

A few years ago he realised a dream and published his book Web Typography to much acclaim. A few years ago Richard was named as one of Wired UK’s top 100 people shaping the digital world, which was nice.

What’s new in web typography?

There have been so many advances in HTML, CSS and browser support over the past few years. These are enabling phenomenal creativity and refinement in all areas of design, and typography is no exception.

Richard will take you on a whirlwind tour of what CSS now enables you to achieve with web typography in ways which were previously beyond reach. He’ll cover new properties and techniques that bring expressiveness, fine detail, responsiveness, consistency and efficiency to your work.

He’ll look at typography from a macro and a micro perspective, and tie it all together to show how great typography is built on the sum of its parts.