Posts Tagged ‘Typography’
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Web TypographySetting Weights And Styles With The @font-face Declaration
- February 14th, 2013
- 32 Comments
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...CSS Baseline: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
- December 17th, 2012
- 40 Comments
Vertical rhythm is clearly an important part of Web design, yet on the subject of baseline, our community seems divided and there is no consensus as to how it fits in — if at all — with our growing and evolving toolkit for designing online. This may be due to a ...
Read more...The Future Of Screen Typography Is In Your Hands
- January 30th, 2012
- 50 Comments
We do more reading on the screen today than we did even a year ago. If we are ever to have a golden age of reading on the screen, this might be the start of it. Tablets, Nooks and Kindles make buying a book or magazine for the screen almost ...
Read more...Styling Elements With Glyphs, Sprites and Pseudo-Elements
- March 19th, 2011
- 63 Comments
In 2002, Mark Newhouse published the article "Taming Lists", a very interesting piece in which he explained how to create custom list markers using pseudo-elements. Almost a decade later, Nicolas Gallagher came up with the technique pseudo background-crop which uses pseudo-elements with a sprite. Today, on the shoulders of giants, ...
Read more...Technical Web Typography: Guidelines and Techniques
- March 14th, 2011
- 117 Comments
The Web is 95% typography, or so they say. I think this is a pretty accurate statement: we visit websites largely with the intention of reading. That’s what you’re doing now — reading. With this in mind, does it not stand to reason that your typography should be one of ...
Read more...The Future Of CSS Typography
- March 1st, 2010
- 66 Comments
There has been an increasing and sincere interest in typography on the web over the last few years. Most websites rely on text to convey their messages, so it’s not a surprise that text is treated with utmost care. In this article, we’ll look at some useful techniques and clever ...
Read more...Guide to CSS Font Stacks: Techniques and Resources
- September 22nd, 2009
- 47 Comments
CSS Font stacks are one of those things that elude a lot of designers. Many stick to the basic stacks Dreamweaver auto-recommends or go even more basic by just specifying a single web-safe font. But doing either of those things means you’re missing out on some great typography options. Font ...
Read more...8 Simple Ways to Improve Typography In Your Designs
- April 3rd, 2009
- 144 Comments
Many people, designers included, think that typography consists of only selecting a typeface, choosing a font size and whether it should be regular or bold. For most people it ends there. But there is much more to achieving good typography and it’s in the details that designers often neglect. These details ...
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