The Importance of Designing for Readability. Text is not an afterthought in the design process.
Setting subheads with CSS. Subheads are typographic devices that establish content structure for the reader, providing a short overview of the content that follows.
We can use them as points of visual interest or as simple navigational aids that gradually disclose the content. However, default subhead styles rendered by the browser can be too generic. Getting Started with Responsive Typography. Posted at Queness by Carrie Cousins Introduction Responsive design is the “in” thing when it comes to website design.
Responsiveness allows for one design scheme to work on websites, tablets and mobile devices and look great in a variety of sizes and orientations. But have you thought about how this evolving, adaptable design outline relates to type? Letterforms need to respond to design changes as well. Optimizing Typography in Responsive Web Design. Posted at speckyboy by Sadaf Fareed Each time a discussion pops up about responsive design, the common terminology and concepts that get the maximum attention include grids and images, and obviously the settings like fluid or flexible.
Typography, though essentially always deemed important, is rarely given the weightage it deserves when it comes to responsive web design. Fonts, fabulous fonts: How to use the @font-face rule with popular font services. Posted at Adobe by Janine Warner Studies show that five out of five web designers agree that the handful of fonts that come installed on most Windows and Mac computers offer a woefully inadequate choice for even the simplest design projects.
Stuffy old Times New Roman and straight-laced Arial have earned their place in the world of fonts, but anyone serious about design knows what it's like to spend hours searching for just the right font. If you think font hunting a waste of time, you might consider reading Hear, All Ye People; Hearken, O Earth (Part One), a New York Times article by Errol Morris, who conducted a recent study on how typefaces impact our perception of truth.
(Font fanatics, truth seekers, and anyone who loves a good research project should enjoy his article). HTML for Icon Font Usage. Posted at CSS-Tricks by Chris Coyier Where are we at right now in terms of the best markup for using icon fonts?
Let's cover some options I think are currently the best. Typographer's Glossary. Web Design is 95% Typography. Create Your Own @font-face Kits. 20 Beautiful High Quality Fonts for Your Design. Handpicked free fonts for graphic designers with commercial-use licenses. Fonts in CSS3. Under CSS3, fonts can be embedded into web pages.
That is, the end-user sees the page text in the font it is meant to be seen in, without needing the requisite typeface in their own fonts folder. However, this has several problems: Only CSS3-aware browsers support this feature. Perhaps surprisingly, Internet Explorer has supported embedded fonts since IE 5.5, via its own proprietary WEFT format. Typetester – Compare fonts for the screen. Typography Do’s and Don’ts. Yesterday we brought you part one of our ten do’s and don’t for working with typography.
Today we’ll wrap up with five more! Read on to see if you’re guilty of any of the following blunders and how to make sure you never do it again. Sizing type with Lucas Sequences. The relationship between text and the rest of a page is one of the key characteristics of any design.
Rhythm, emphasis and tone are all compromised without correctly scaled type. However, selecting text sizes is often both a painstaking and frustrating experience, with no standardized starting point to inform us. As a result we frequently find web designers falling back on the default options presented by applications — 8pt, 10pt, 12pt, 14pt, 18pt — for want of a better solution. That better solution is to set type sizes not by individual whim, but according to a predetermined system; a system that is simple to use, practical to implement on the web and most importantly, flexible enough to allow designers a full range of expression. Cue: the Lucas Sequence. Lucas Sequences The Fibonacci Sequence — first recorded in the West during the 13th century by Leonardo Fibonacci — is the following set of integers (whole numbers): Viewport Sized Typography. CSS3 has some new values for sizing things relative to the current viewport size: vw, vh, and vmin.
It is relevant to bring up now, because it's shipping in Chrome 20 (canary at the time of this writing). And not behind a flag, it just works. Production usage isn't quite there, but it will be soon enough. Why is this awesome? There are many reasons. Examples of Typography. This time we’re gonna show you some truly inspiring works with text, also referred to as typography. This can be used many places; in magazines, advertisements, websites, logos and more. These great pieces will show you that there are no boundaries and that you can make almost anything with text if you have a good portion of creativity and talent. Typography can in todays terms be so much more than what you find in a book or magazine. It’s turned into a very inspiring form of art, and there are many great pieces out there.
Celtic Knot Font. Typography Guidelines for Good Website Usability. Free Fonts. Flipping typical.