Your quick and easy intro to typography in web design.
Now, website typefaces are anything but boring, and there’s no reason to stick to a safe sans serif unless it serves your purpose. The new rules for website typography may not be what you think.
While the eventual growth of web typography is difficult to prognosticate, certain web typography trends have emerged over the past year.
A handbook for designing beautiful and effective responsive typography.
Responsive web typography is perhaps one of the most important features of web design. There's a lot more to this aspect than simply just resizing the
Conventional wisdom states that body text benefits most from being set in a serif font because the serifs create a path for the eye to follow along a line and
Wherever we turn online, typography jumps out at us — sometimes literally, with the assistance of some clever coding. And now more than ever, we are seeing greater focus on this design element and its varied implementations around the Web. With the growing popularity of font embedding services and @font-face, typography is _the_ talk of the town, but even though it is a regular topic among communities, not all of our typographic efforts are successful. Sometimes we swing for the fences, only to miss or fall short. This is what brings us together today. We have looked around the Web and checked some of the many typographic choices of website owners — some of which are successful, others not so much. Below is a selection of some elegant and interesting websites. We will **critique the typography** on them, in order to explore how we can improve the type on our own websites. Look through them to see whether you spot any typographical trespasses that you may have committed yourself.
Web typography has evolved a lot over the last years. Today we see rich, accessible typography, a plethora of type design choices for the web and a number of remarkable, type-based web designs. It's a great time for web design, and it's a great time for web typography. Still, being as excited as we are, we should not forget about the foundational principles of **good type design on the web** and use them properly within our projects. Great choice is good, but, most importantly, we should be making meaningful typographic choices in our designs.
Responsive typography is a tough nut to crack. This was the best method I could come up with when I first started creating responsive websites: ```css p { font-size: 16px; } @media (min-width: 800px) { p { font-size: 18px; } } /* Repeat for h1 - h6 and other type groups */ ```I've learned a lot more about typography since then and picked up best practices like using relative units, vertical rhythms and meaningful typography scales. These new practices were wonderful. They made my websites look more pleasing to the eye. Implementing them, however, was a horrible experience. I had to write complex code and I found myself struggling to create responsive websites under tremendous time pressure. Now, after months of hacking, I've finally created a solution that I'm happy to share with you. It's called Typi. Typi is great because it allows me to use the practices I've learned, and at the same time solves most of the problems I've encountered in 3 simple steps. Let me explain these three steps by walking you through the practices I use when working with responsive typography.
Looking at the modern web design trends, having a responsive web typography is a big factor every web designer and web developer shouldn't miss.
Typography influences whether or not viewers read the content, as well as having a subtle effect on how they perceive your site. Choosing appropriate typefaces and controlling their presentation is critical to conveying your message.
Fonts are key to communication on the web. But how do you pick the right one? Google Fonts is here to help you find the perfect font and master web typography.
Beautiful web typography has a unique appeal to the to the website viewers. Check out 50 examples of websites with stunning web typography.
With 100,000 different fonts and 16.8 million colors on the web, the possibilities are virtually limitless. For some people, your imagination might soar as high as the Burj Khalifa. For others, you…
Web typography is a key subject matter for every web creator. Understand the role of typography in web design, including tips for future design projects.
Trent Walton’s blog. Trent is a web designer and co-founder of Luro and Paravel
Gutenberg is a work–in–progress project by Matej Latin that brings meaning and craftsmanship to web typography.
While you can find two dozen blog posts and articles about various image replacement techniques using Google, I couldn’t find any article that would help when you want the replacement to be...
A showcase of the best typefaces from the Google web fonts directory.
What makes a great online typeface? How do you know when a font works? What do you need to know to design with fonts? Join award-winning designer, author, and. ..
