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La lecture de la semaine, il s’agit d’un article paru dans le New York Times le 18 avril dernier, on le doit à Benedict Carey. L’article commence par une question piège : est-il plus facile de se souvenir d’un fait nouveau quand on le lit dans une police normale ou quand il est écrit en gros caractères gras – comme ça ? La réponse est : peu importe, la taille des caractères n’a aucun effet sur la mémoire, contrairement à ce qu’on pourrait penser. En revanche, la police, elle, a un effet.
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Technical Web Typography: Guidelines and Techniques - Smashing Magazine
The Web is 95% typography 1 , 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.
A Crash Course in Typography: The Basics of Type - Noupe Design Blog
Mar 28 2011 Typography could be considered the most important part of any design. It’s definitely among the most important elements of any design project. And yet it’s often the part of a design that’s left for last, or barely considered at all. Designers are often intimidated by typography, which can result in bland typographical design or a designer always using one or two “reliable” typefaces in their designs.Apr 11 2011 When combining typefaces, there are a couple of important principles you’ll need to keep in mind, namely contrast and mood. Effectively combining typefaces is a skill best learned through practice, and trial-and-error. Once you’ve mastered the principles covered here, you’ll have the tools you need to try out combinations while making educated guesses about what will and won’t work together.
A Crash Course in Typography: Principles for Combining Typefaces - Noupe Design Blog
I recently heard Chris Eppstein give a talk ( slides ) about creating better stylesheets and using SASS to do it. There were a couple of surprising bits in there, one of which was about "opt-in typography." The idea was that instead of setting global styles for typographic elements like p , ul , ol , h1 , h2 , etc that you would instead apply those styles as a class, perhaps .text . The idea is that there is a lot of places on a website where you want a clean slate to work from and not be worried about what global styles are doing.
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Mind Your En And Em Dashes: Typographic Etiquette - Smashing Magazine
An understanding of typographic etiquette separates the master designers from the novices. A well-trained designer can tell within moments of viewing a design whether its creator knows how to work with typography. Typographic details aren’t just inside jokes among designers. They have been built up from thousands of years of written language, and applying them holds in place long-established principles that enable typography to communicate with efficiency and beauty. Handling these typographic details on the Web brings new challenges and restrictions that need to be considered.