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Techniques for Responsive Typography

Techniques for Responsive Typography
When it comes to responsive type on the web, there's more to do than just resizing the text's container and having the text reflow inside of it. This in-depth article covers various techniques for making text responsive. One of the most important aspects of responsive web design is responsive typography. When it comes to responsive type on the web, there’s more to do than just resizing the text’s container and having the text reflow inside of it. First Things First: Making text accessible Before getting into techniques to resize text on different screen sizes, you need to make sure that your text is legible and accessible by using sufficient color contrast and an easily readable font to avoid turning your page’s content into an eye sore. If text is not legible to begin with, then no matter how much you resize it, you’ll still end up with illegible text, which is of course the opposite of what you’re setting out to achieve in the first place. Choose A Readable Font Face Resources:

26 Very Useful Free Typeface-Font Basics eBooks for Designers In today’s post we have gathered really useful typeface and font basic ebooks for designers. First of all,let’s clarify on thing.While talking about typographic terms some people are confused about typeface and font.A typeface actually refers to the shape of each character that forms part of a collection of characters known as a typeface. The typeface shows how each character (letter, number & symbol) are to be depicted. Within each font are styles such at bold, italic, etc. Since as far back as the 1450s, typefaces have been used in printing. Here are 26 very useful typeface and font basics eBooks for designers. Adobe – Designing Multiple Master Typefaces Technical Guidelines for Designing Multiple Master Tyepfaces Chapter 1 Overview of Multiple Master Typefaces Chapter 2 Technical Design Guidelines Chapter 3 Multiple Master Font Naming Conventions Adobe’s Typeface Design Process Part 1 Design Considerations Part 2 Adobe’s Multiple Master Typeface Design Process Read The E-book Read The E-book

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