Fluid Web typography a guide

✍ Scribed by Teague, Jason Cranford

• Publisher: New Riders Publishing
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 265
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this text, 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
CONTENTS......Page 5
FOREWORD......Page 8
PREFACE......Page 11
YOU ARE A TYPOGRAPHER......Page 16
WHAT IS A FONT?......Page 21
TYPOGRAPHY ON THE SCREEN......Page 24
A BRIEF HISTORY OF WEB TYPOGRAPHY......Page 27
AN EVEN BRIEFER HISTORY OF TYPOGRAPHY......Page 29
WHAT IS FLUID WEB TYPOGRAPHY?......Page 32
TYPE INSPIRATIONS......Page 37
ANATOMY OF A CHARACTER......Page 40
TYPES OF TYPE......Page 45
FAKING HIGHER RESOLUTION WITH ANTI-ALIASED TEXT......Page 49
CHARACTER AND TEXT ENCODING ON THE WEB......Page 50
USING SYMBOLS......Page 55
HTML CHARACTER REFERENCES......Page 57
TYPE INSPIRATIONS......Page 63
FONTS ON THE WEB......Page 66
WEB SAFE FONTS......Page 71
OF EULAS, DRM, AND IP: WEB FONTS AND THE LAW......Page 83
WEB FONT LINKING......Page 85
WEB FONT LINKING SERVICE BUREAUS......Page 99
WEB FONT EMBEDDING WITH JAVASCRIPT......Page 107
WHICH WEB FONT SOLUTION SHOULD I USE?......Page 112
TYPE INSPIRATIONS......Page 115
4 SCALE & RHYTHM......Page 118
WEB MEASUREMENTS......Page 119
TYPE SIZE & LINE HEIGHT......Page 124
DISPELLING THE ABOVE-THE-FOLD MYTH......Page 127
TYPE SPACE......Page 134
TEXT ALIGNMENT......Page 140
TYPE INSPIRATIONS......Page 145
GUIDING THE READER'S EYE......Page 148
WEIGHT......Page 151
BROWSER-SYNTHESIZED FONTS......Page 153
ITALIC & OBLIQUE......Page 155
DECORATION......Page 157
TEXT CASE......Page 159
COLOR......Page 161
TYPE INSPIRATIONS......Page 167
DO NOT DESIGN BY DEFAULT......Page 170
HTML 5 AND THE FUTURE OF WEB TYPOGRAPHY......Page 175
FROM BOX TO GRID......Page 176
CHOOSING THE RIGHT TYPEFACE......Page 183
BUILDING A FLUID FONT STACK......Page 185
SOFTWARE......Page 190
TYPEFACES......Page 191
THE AUTHOR'S WEB SITES......Page 196
TOOLS......Page 197
FONT DOWNLOADS......Page 198
INFORMATION AND BLOGS......Page 199
BOOKS & MAGAZINES......Page 201
C: CHARACTER REFERENCES......Page 202
D: WEB FONT SPECIMEN BOOK......Page 208
B......Page 252
C......Page 253
D......Page 254
F......Page 255
I......Page 257
M......Page 258
R......Page 259
T......Page 260
W......Page 262
X......Page 263

✦ Subjects

Design;Website Design