Author:

Laura Franz is a Pro­fes­sor at UMass Dartmouth, where she teaches a wide range of type classes — including a Web Typography class in The Grad­u­ate Cer­tifi­cate In Web and Inter­ac­tion Design. Inspired by the intersection of tradition and technology, Laura shares her web font recommendations on goodwebfonts.com and her typography knowledge via “Typo­graphic Web Design: How to Think Like a Typog­ra­pher in HTML and CSS” (Wiley), “Typog­ra­phy for Web Design­ers” (lynda.com), and “Choosing and Using Web Fonts” (lynda.com).

Web TypographySetting Weights And Styles With The @font-face Declaration

If people are on your website, they’re probably either skimming quickly, looking for something, or they’ve found what they’re looking for and want to read it as easily as possible. Either way, keeping text readable will help them achieve their goal. A few months ago, I wrote an article on “Avoiding ...

Read more...

↑ Back to top