Articles Tagged with Typography
- Will Page Zoom Prove Relative Units Less Useful?
- With browser manufacturers beginning to default to page zoom, will relative units be phased out?
- Current Events: Accessibility Importance and Downloadable Fonts
- A recent legal settlement against Target legally requires the corporation to have an accessible website. This is great news! The latest nightly builds of WebKit now support the @font-face CSS rule; an interesting update to a very popular rendering engine.
- Typography in Headings: sIFR? Image Replacement?
- While sIFR has garnered quite a bit of attention and support, I have yet to see it implemented all that often. Is CSS based image replacement preferred?
- The Principles of Beautiful Web Design Book Review
- I think The Principles of Beautiful Web Design by Jason Beaird is a great book to read for those who wish to start off on the right foot when it comes to Web design. It’s also a good read for designers who would like to research improving their current methods by reading a book written by someone who has excelled in the medium.
- Thinking with Type Book Review
- Effectively working with type is a craft in and of itself. Having the ability to use typography to solidify a design is something I hold in high regard as an admirable talent. There is a rich history behind the art of type and Thinking with Type by Ellen Lupton goes to great lengths to describe much of that history.
- Linux Font Equivalents to Popular Web Typefaces
- I have written before about my admiration for Web typography, and in that article I touched on the fact that many “Web safe” fonts can’t be applied to Linux. Linux distributions each ship with their own font libraries, but I’d like to focus on similar typefaces you can use within a font-family to help make your design bulletproof.
- Admiration for Typography on the Web
- It’s been said that Web design is 95% typography, and I can definitely agree with that. Many times a site design could be improved extensively with a quick change of a font-family. Keeping that in mind, how does one decide on a good looking font-family for their design? First and foremost, if you’re primarily […]
- Effective Style with em
- Using relative font sizes for Web design can be a great benefit to both the developer and the reader. Read about using em for font size.
