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A handbook for designing beautiful and effective typography in responsive websites

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An edition of Web Typography (2017)

Web Typography

A handbook for designing beautiful and effective typography in responsive websites

  • 1 Want to read

Typography is what comes between the author and the reader. This is as true on the web as it is in any other medium. If a text has anything at all significant to say, it needs a typographer's care, which will in turn be repaid by the reader's attention. If you design websites or use CSS then you are a typographer whether you know it or not. This book is a practical guide and companion reference to all aspects of typography on the web. It deftly combines implementiation details with typographic theory, and is ideal for designers, developers and anyone else involved in the process of creating a website.

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Ampersand Type
Language
English
Pages
334

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Table of Contents

0. We are all Typographers
Why web typography really does matter
Embracing the medium
Preparing the ground
1. Setting Type to be Read
How we read
The amazing em (and friends)
Designing paragraphs: line length
Designing paragraphs: text size
Designing paragraphs: line spacing
Alignment, justification and hyphenation
Responsive paragraphs
2. Typographic Detail
Symbols, signs and accents
Ligatures and abbreviations
Hierarchy and scale
Meaning and semantics
Numerals and tables
Tracking and kerning
Headlines and impact
Vertical rhythm
Arrangement and composition
3. Choosing and Using Fonts
How fonts render on screens
Practical and pragmatic considerations
Knowing and browsing type
Selecting typefaces for body text
Selecting typefaces for display text
Selecting typefaces for functional text
Combining typefaces
Using web fonts
Building a library
Final Thoughts
Communicating your design
If you read nothing else, read this

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Paperback
Number of pages
334

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Open Library
OL36683135M
ISBN 10
099566420X
ISBN 13
9780995664203

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