Filetype:jpg. Condenser des regles de typographye francaise. Technical Web Typography: Guidelines and Techniques. Advertisement 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 the most considered aspects of your designs? Unfortunately, for every person who is obsessed with even the tiniest details of typography, a dozen or so people seem to be indifferent. Creative and Technical Typography I’m not sure these two categories are recognized in the industry but, in my mind, the two main types of typography are creative and technical. Creative typography involves making design decisions such as which face to use, what mood the type should create, how it should be set, what tone it should have — for example, should it be airy, spacious and open (light) or condensed, bold and tight, with less white space (dark)?
We’ll focus on technical type in this article. We’ll learn about: <! Beware! <! 50 Helpful Typography Tools And Resources. Advertisement We love beautiful typography, and we appreciate the efforts of designers who come up with great typographic techniques and tools or who just share their knowledge with fellow designers. We are always looking for such resources. We compile them, carefully select the best ones and then prepare them for our round-ups.
And now it’s time to present a beautiful fresh dose of typography-related resources. To help you improve the typography in your designs, we’re presenting here useful new articles, tools and resources related to typography. You may be interested in the following related posts: Typography: References and Useful Resources The Taxonomy of TypeThis article’s purpose is to help us as designers to distinguish basic properties of types. Typedia: A Shared Encyclopedia of TypefacesTypedia is a resource to classify, categorize, and connect typefaces. Typeface Anatomy and GlossaryMany fonts have abbreviations in their names. Finding The Right Type Combining Type Type Design. Know Your Typefaces! Semantic Differential Presentation of 40 Onscreen Typefaces. By A. D. Shaikh Summary. This article presents results from a study investigating the personality of typefaces. Participants were asked to rate 40 typefaces (from serif, sans serif, display, and handwriting classes) using semantic differential scales.
Responses are shown by typeface class and individual typeface using scaled scores. Introduction While there has been quite a bit of research on the perception of printed type, there has not been a thorough investigation into the perception of onscreen type. Figure 1. The responses reduced down to three factors to describe the typefaces: Evaluative, Potency, and Activity.
Potency reflects typefaces that are seen as having strength, power, or force.Evaluative reflects typefaces that are viewed as having value, worth, and importance.Activity reflects typefaces that are considered to be full of energy, movement, and action. Table 1. Figure 2. [Back to Table 1] Osgood, C. Like this: Like Loading... Complete Guide to Pre-Installed Fonts in Linux, Mac, and Windows. By Megan McDermott, 19 March 2012 - 2:01pm Web fonts are gaining in popularity now, but they can still be a bit of a challenge to use. Copyright issues often require the use of a third-party font service, which can be risky and expensive.The good news is that all major operating systems come with a variety of fonts that you can use to create your font stacks. This article lists fonts installed with major operating systems and software, shows how those fonts look on that platform, and attempts to suggest fonts with similar appearance and metrics.
This is an updated version of the article originally published in November, 2007. Differences from the previous version This version makes several changes and updates to the original version, published in November, 2007: Updated font lists to include different versions of the major operating systems in separate columns. About these tables View the tables Foreign Language Fonts Discussion References: How-to's. Guide to CSS Font Stacks: Techniques and Resources « Smashing Magazine. Advertisement 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 stacks can make it possible to show at least some of your visitors your site’s typography exactly the way you intend without showing everyone else a default font. Read on for more information on using and creating effective font stacks with CSS. Creating Your Own Font Stacks There are a huge variety of font stacks recommended. First of all, make sure you always include a generic font family at the end of your font stacks. Third, make sure you pay attention to the scale of the fonts in your stack. Common Font Stacks A lot of designers out there have taken a crack at creating ideal font stacks.
Better CSS Font Stacks Here are some listed for body text: For headlines: 8 Definitive Web Font Stacks. Typographic Design Patterns and Best Practices | How-To. Advertisement Even with a relatively limited set of options in CSS, typography can vary tremendously using pure CSS syntax. Serif or sans-serif? Large or small font? Line height, spacing, font size and padding… The list goes on and on. To find typographic design patterns that are common in modern Web design and to resolve some common typographic issues, we conducted extensive research on 50 popular websites on which typography matters more than usual (or at least should matter more than usual). We’ve carefully analyzed their typography and style sheets and searched for similarities and differences.
Ultimately, we identified 13 general typographic problems and issues related to typographic design and tried to find answers to them through our research: How popular are serif and sans-serif typefaces in body copy and headlines? We ended up with solid data, which we evaluated and prepared for this article. 1. Two thirds of the websites we surveyed used sans-serif fonts for body copy. 2. 3. 4. A Primer on the CSS Font Shorthand Property. In recent years, as an off-shoot of the “web 2.0″ movement, typography has really taken off and now plays a major role in web design. And font usage is also quite an important factor in CSS development — despite that it has not gotten to the point where any font can be used freely without some tricky, sometimes complex workarounds. Font declarations and related properties in CSS are fairly straightforward to write in longhand. But there is a shorthand CSS property for declaring certain typographical properties that is well-supported across all common browsers, but a little quirky to work with.
In this article I’ll describe how the css font shorthand property is used, how it can be misused, and what potential drawbacks there might be to including it in your CSS code. CSS Font Properties in Longhand How the Shorthand Property is Declared If we wanted to condense the above code into one line using the font shorthand method, we would use the following syntax: Some Things to Keep in Mind Summary.