Web Typography

Quick Overview

Getting the Hang of Web Typography is dedicated to web workers that are dealing with typography in their daily lives, but have no special training for this independent craft. This eBook gives you the necessary background on macro- and microtypography, it helps you to choose suitable fonts and use modern techniques such as Web font embedding. It’s a valuable book that helps you to create rich, sophisticated Web sites with beautiful and elegant Web typography.

The implications of desktop publishing, where anybody who has access to a computer can set type, have led to a flood of poorly designed brochures, flyers and web pages. In Web design especially illegible text, incorrect use of punctuation marks and inappropriate font combinations or use of line widths are frequent. The new techniques that Web fonts offer might bring about even worse examples of ugly and illegible Web typography.

Getting the Hang of Web Typography is a collection of Smashing Magazine’s best and most recent articles on web typography with one additional article series and glossary. You can use this eBook as reference work for your projects.

It’s a valuable book read that helps you to create rich, sophisticated Web sites with beautiful and elegant Web typography.

Formats: pdf, ePub, Mobipocket (DRM-free)
Pages: 242
Language: English
ISBN : 978-3-943075-07-6
Released: January 2011
Publisher: Smashing Media GmbH

Full Product Description

The implications of desktop publishing, where anybody who has access to a computer can set type, have led to a flood of poorly designed brochures, flyers and web pages. In web design especially illegible text, incorrect use of punctuation marks and inappropriate font combinations or use of line widths are frequent. The new techniques that web fonts offer — much hailed by some and dreaded by others — might bring about even worse examples of ugly and illegible web typography.

In order to avoid this, we have dedicated this e-book to web workers that are dealing with typography in their daily lives, but have no special training for this independent craft. Getting the Hang of Web Typography is a collection of Smashing Magazine’s best and most recent articles on web typography with one additional article series and glossary. You can use this e-book as reference work and inspiration.

It’s a valuable book read that helps you to create rich, sophisticated Web sites with beautiful and elegant Web typography.

Preface
The Ails Of Typographic Anti-Aliasing
10 Principles For Readable Web Typograph
5 Principles and Ideas of Setting Type on the Web
Lessons From Swiss Style Graphic Design
8 Simple Ways to Improve Typography in Your Designs
Typographic Design Patterns and Best Practices
The Typography Dress Code: Principles of Choosing and Using Typefaces
Best Practices of Combining Typefaces
Guide to CSS Font Stacks: Techniques and Resources
New Typographic Possibilities with CSS 3
Good Old @Font-Face Rule Revisited
The Current Web Font Formats
Review of Popular Web Font Embedding Services
How to Embed Web Fonts from your Server
Web Typography: Work-arounds, Tips and Tricks
10 Useful Typography Tools