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â Systems for pagesâ - Blog - John D. Berry dot com Books are digital. This is not, strictly speaking, true; but it’s about to be, with a few honorable exceptions. Already today, pretty much all commercial books are produced digitally, although the end product is a physical one: ink printed on paper, then bound and marketed and sold. Already, the selling may be done as often online as in a bookstore. Already, the same books are being issued more and more in electronic form – even if, as yet, the e-books are mostly very shoddy in conception and execution. But that will change. So what’s needed? Last question first. But e-books present a challenge that printed books do not: the page isn’t fixed and final. For a real system of flexible layout in e-books and e-periodicals that might be viewed on any number of different screens at different times, what’s needed is a rules-based system of adaptive layout. The requirements for this are easy to describe – maybe not so easy to implement. A constraints-based system of adaptive layout Media query.

La typographie dans le graphisme. sur Geekeries.fr | Découvrir W La typographie, qui commença en 1450 avec l’invention de Gutenberg, nous permet de nos jours à communiquer plus facilement et plus esthétiquement. Nous devons soigner les différents aspects et mettre en valeur les informations essentielles de nos sites/blog ou encore pour nos documents imprimés. Mais, tout le monde ne connaît pas les règles de bases de la typographie, et nous voyons des fois, pour ne pas dire tout le temps, des coquilles très perturbante, que ce soit chez les professionnels (même si cela ce fait de plus en plus rare) ou les novices. Cet article a pour but, d’aider bien évidemment les novices ou toutes personnes intéressées par la typographie générale. - La romain ou « régular » sur les ordinateurs, est la première typographie utilisée en 1450. - Les capitales sont les premières lettres conçus par les romains. - Les bas de casse sont les caractères appelés « minuscules ». - Les graisses sont les épaisseurs ajoutées aux caractères (gras).

Six Super Helpful Typography Cheat Sheets Some may argue that typography is the single most important aspect of web design, but yet it’s often one of the most neglected and overlooked. There’s a lot involved in typography, and becoming a master can be difficult. A lot of it requires much experience, practice, and knowing the rules and do’s and dont’s. Nevertheless, there’s a lot to remember. So to provide a little typography aid, we’ve rounded up Six Super Helpful Typography Cheat Sheets. So You Need A Typeface Mixing Typefaces Web Safe Font Cheat Sheet Common fonts to all versions of Windows & Mac equivalents CSS Typography Reference Sheet CSS Font Shorthand Property Cheat Sheet About the Author Henry Jones is a web developer, designer, and entrepreneur with over 14 years of experience. Related Posts 918 shares 20 Amazing Examples of Typography Sketches for Your Inspiration Often we’re critical about the end design, but behind the scenes a lot of process go to work, and one of which is sketching. Read More 938 shares

72 Creative And Smart Typographic Logo Inspiration | Graphic and If we are starting to go crazy in typography style, then let’s continue with typographic and smart logo designs, shall we? Here you’ll find 72 beautiful logos created by talented designers. This showcase just proves the point how much can one/two words, icons tell using correctly white, negative, positive spacing, colors, accents creating interesting associations. Explore and get creative as I did! 1. Killed Productions Who killed letter i? 2. Really smart logo! 3. Typeface: word-play: face from the type and letter T. 4. Just loving this logo, great stylization! 5. Very popular logo already, but thought I still share it in typography section. Author’s comment: “Logo was made for a bold creative team consisting of two people. 6. Just smart logo, which rings the bell! 7. Author’s comment: “Gizzy bear is how a little kid might say grizzly bear. Just genius! 8. Simple, artistic and very clever – all in one place! 9. Very good logo – yes, sticky! 10. Oh, snap – logo with very clear message. 11. 12. 13.

Special Characters | reference chart of ampersand symbols Path // → → SPECIAL CHARACTERS There is a huge list of extra characters and symbols in existence that couldn’t be crammed onto a keyboard, so HTML allows you to use them through a series of special codes commonly known as “ampersand characters” or “character entities.” You can create these characters by starting with an ampersand (&), followed by a few letters, and ending with a semicolon (;). For instance, the entity © creates a copyright symbol ©. All entities are case sensitive. This page was last updated on 2012-08-21 Character Sets Every document you create should have a character set specified for it. Most pages that are written in any form of English will use a character set called iso-8859-1. This means you’ll be able to use any character that’s in UTF-8 by simply typing it into the document. Markup-related Symbols Standard Letter Variations Pretty Punctuation Make your text more stylish with proper punctuation. Mathematical Symbols ’n’ Greek Letters Special Spaces

Anatomie de la lettre typographique & glossaire typographique Angle d’empattement [fillet] Liaison plus ou moins incurvée entre l’empattement et le fût. Axe oblique [stress] Inclinaison suggérée par la relation entre les pleins et les déliés. Il est le plus souvent vertical ou oblique. Boucle [goutte, loop] Partie du ‘g’ qui descend sous la ligne de pied. Contrepoinçon [counter] Espace blanc à partiellement ou totalement enclos à l’intérieur de la panse d’un caractère. Corps [force de corps, type size] Taille d’un caractère, exprimée généralement en points typographiques ou en dixièmes de millimètres. Délié [thin stroke, hairline] Partie plus fine du caractère. Délié de jonction [link] Trait fin qui relie par exemple la panse du ‘g’ à sa boucle. Diagonale [branche, leg pour le ‘k’, stem sinon] Partie inclinée d’un caractère. Empattement [serif] Petit trait qui prolonge les extrémités des traits droits et obliques des lettres ; en général perpendiculaire à ces derniers. Panse [rondeur, bowl] Trait courbé ou ovale qui renferme le contrepoinçon.

dafont.com 25 Hottest Free Fonts of the Moment We’ve selected the current hottest free fonts, organized in four categories. Check the list and see the lastest trends for typography. Doodles and Sketches These sketchy and “messy” fonts are getting noticed more and more. Madsh Sunday Morning Garage Sale Bobsmade font Elefunkt Karabine Sketch Rockwell Conglomerfont Web 2.0 The shiny Web 2.0 style was a big explosion a little time ago, when we could see glossy colored buttons everywhere on the internet. Miso Quicksand Arista Tondo Moderna Rezland Ubuntu title The techno (or “sci-fi”) fonts have also been explored recently. Evolution Dreamforge classic ABC version II Avee Black Quarters font Simplistic Font Grunge Grunge typography was named after the musical movement, which was characterized by rebellion. Plaguedeath Traymad Incinerator Heroin 07 Untitled Font Donate

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