This 2010 ATypI conference is being held in Dublin, Ireland, from 8 to 12 September 2010. The main conference sessions will run from 9 to 12 September in the historic venue of Dublin Castle. This year’s theme is the  ‘The Word’ – will explore the word in its various dimensions including typographic, literary, historical, political, technological and aesthetic. I am speaking at this year’s conference. I am presenting a workshop about the practical application of my PhD research and also a paper on the theoretical background to my research.

The programme is packed with very interesting speakers and presentations on typography and the Preface has a range of papers on various aspects of screen typography. Keynote speakers include Robert Bringhurst, Martin Bantjes and Ellen Lupton and there is also a scheduled lettering walk of Dublin with Phil Baines and Catherine Dixon on Sunday 12th September at 3.30pm, meeting at the main conference hall. Should be great!

There are more and more resources on web typography emerging every day, so here is a list of some of the most useful web font sources with @font-face licenses:

1. FontSpring – Open type fonts for your desktop and webfonts for your sites.
2. Fontdeck – Fontdeck is the professional webfonts solution. You only pay for the fonts you need, when you need them.
3. FontShop Webfonts – Web font service on selection of their fonts deemed suitable for web use. Includes handly little tool Fontfonter to see how the fonts look in a website.
4. Typekit – One of the first web font services, also has quite a useful blog.
5. Typotheque – Web Font Service enables you to use custom fonts in your website using the @font-face rule in CSS.
6. Fonts.com from Monotype – Web font service using Monotype fonts.
7. Extensis WebInk – High-quality fonts for your websites. Easily use professional type from trusted foundries in the sites you design.

Nice Web Type – One place for web typography, using our collective knowledge for the betterment of typographic style and practice. A web type blog written by by Tim Brown.

Also worth mentioning some of this year’s Atypi workshops which is being held in Dublin which focus on web typography and web fonts.