How Klarna internationalized its typography
Klarna is one of those Buy Now Pay Later companies that is seemingly on every ecommerce checkout page these days. And, not surprisingly, the company is expanding globally at a …
Web fonts
This is the golden age for multilingual (multi-script) fonts
In the early days of website globalization, there was no such thing as a “global font.” That’s because there was no such thing as a font that supported the world’s …
Hyperglot shows you which fonts support which language(s)
This is an interesting new tool from the font designers at Rosetta: Hyperglot. As seen here, you can select a font (640 so far) and see which scripts and languages …
COVID flattened the language curve, and that’s actually good news
I began the Web Globalization Report Card back in 2003. It became the first report of it kind to benchmark global websites and I’ve been publishing this report annually ever …
The top 25 websites from the 2018 Web Globalization Report Card
I’m excited to announce the publication of The 2018 Web Globalization Report Card. This is the most ambitious report I’ve written so far and it sheds light on a number of new …
Think Outside the Country: Coming April 10th
I’m pleased to announce the new book Think Outside the Country: A Guide to Going Global and Succeeding in the Translation Economy, due out on April 10th. Think Outside the Country is …
Webfonts contest
I recently spoke to the folks at Monotype regarding their Web Fonts initiative. And they mentioned a contest they’re running right now to highlight the best implementations of web fonts. …