Type study: Sizing the legible letter

Nov 142011
 
Type study: Sizing the legible letter

November 9, 2011 | blog.typekit.com :: Type study is an ongoing series of guest posts about typography on the web. In this article, Ethan Marcotte dishes up advice on font size. Yes, it’s true. This is a blog entry about sizing text for the web. …look, I know you’re still out there. I can hear you breathing. Sure, sizing text isn’t the most glamorous topic. What’s more, it can get downright contentious, with camps forming around their favorite units of measurement. The truth is, each [read more]

How to Bulletproof @font-face Web Fonts

Oct 182011
 
How to Bulletproof @font-face Web Fonts

Oct 10 2011 by Ryan DeBeasi | SixRevisions.com :: You’re interviewing for your dream job, and you’re ready to kick some butt. A small group is gathered around a conference phone and some coding exercises, and they’re pulling up your portfolio on a projector so that everyone can review it. It looks great, except for one thing: All of your beautiful web fonts are gone and have been replaced with… Arial. No, this isn’t just a bad dream: It actually happened to me recently when [read more]

Typography Reference Links

Oct 102011
 
Typography Reference Links

University of Minnesota Duluth :: Typography Font Sizing 3.4: Use relative rather than absolute units- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 Example for Checkpoint 3.4 Techniques for checkpoint 3.4 A Dao of Web Design – John Allsopp About Points and Pixels as Units – Henri Sivonen Adjustable Font Size – Jukka ‘Yucca’ Korpela Effective Style with em – Jonathan Christopher An Explanation of Ems – Richard Rutter Beware of -webkit-text-size-adjust:none – Roger Johansson Beyond the FONT tag: Practical HTML text styling – Todd Fahrner Big, Stark [read more]

CSS Typography: The Basics

Oct 062011
 
CSS Typography: The Basics

Mar 3 2011,  by Kayla Knight SixRevisions.com :: Typography is an essential component of a website’s design. This is for good reason: good typography is not only imperative for aesthetic appeal, but also improves site usability when text legibility and readability concepts are applied. Typography is all about proportions and spacing. There are also font styles to consider. How can we use CSS for great typography in our web designs? This is a question we’ll try to answer. This is the first part of a [read more]

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