Fluid Web Typography

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Teague, Jason Cranford, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Web typography--Design.

Web typography.

Web sites.

Computer fonts.

Web publishing.

Graphic design (Typography).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 248 p.) : ill.

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] New Riders Publishing 2009

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The type that designers use can say as much to their audience as the actual words on the page. But until now, Web designers have had an extremely limited palette of typefaces from which to choose -- essentially, Arial (yawn), Times (yawn), and Georgia (yawwwwwn). Design is about overcoming the limitations of a medium, and Web design is no different. In this book, Jason shows Web designers how to apply the principles of fluid typography, Web-safe fonts, downloaded fonts, and type on images to create robust scalable designs without resorting to type in images or Adobe Flash.

Contents:

Cover

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

PREFACE

1 FOUNDATIONS

YOU ARE A TYPOGRAPHER

WHAT IS A FONT?

TYPOGRAPHY ON THE SCREEN

A BRIEF HISTORY OF WEB TYPOGRAPHY

AN EVEN BRIEFER HISTORY OF TYPOGRAPHY

WHAT IS FLUID WEB TYPOGRAPHY?

TYPE INSPIRATIONS

2 CHARACTERS & SYMBOLS

ANATOMY OF A CHARACTER

TYPES OF TYPE

FAKING HIGHER RESOLUTION WITH ANTI-ALIASED TEXT

CHARACTER AND TEXT ENCODING ON THE WEB

USING SYMBOLS

HTML CHARACTER REFERENCES

3 FONTS & TYPEFACES

FONTS ON THE WEB

WEB SAFE FONTS

OF EULAS, DRM, AND IP: WEB FONTS AND THE LAW

WEB FONT LINKING

WEB FONT LINKING SERVICE BUREAUS

WEB FONT EMBEDDING WITH JAVASCRIPT

WHICH WEB FONT SOLUTION SHOULD I USE?

4 SCALE & RHYTHM

WEB MEASUREMENTS

TYPE SIZE & LINE HEIGHT

DISPELLING THE ABOVE-THE-FOLD MYTH

TYPE SPACE

TEXT ALIGNMENT

5 EMPHASIS & CONTRAST

GUIDING THE READER'S EYE

WEIGHT

BROWSER-SYNTHESIZED FONTS

ITALIC & OBLIQUE

DECORATION

TEXT CASE

COLOR

6 GRID & COMPOSITION

DO NOT DESIGN BY DEFAULT

HTML 5 AND THE FUTURE OF WEB TYPOGRAPHY

FROM BOX TO GRID

CHOOSING THE RIGHT TYPEFACE

BUILDING A FLUID FONT STACK

A: COLOPHON

HARDWARE & OS

SOFTWARE

TYPEFACES

B: TYPOGRAPHY RESOURCES

THE AUTHOR'S WEB SITES

TOOLS

FONT DOWNLOADS

INFORMATION AND BLOGS

BOOKS & MAGAZINES

C: CHARACTER REFERENCES

D: WEB FONT SPECIMEN BOOK

INDEX.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786612432934

9780132104791

0132104792

9781282432932

1282432931

9780321673329

0321673328

OCLC:

1027161810