1st Edition
The New Web Typography Create a Visual Hierarchy with Responsive Web Design
Overview
Choosing the Right Typeface
Building a Fluid Font Stack
Type Basics
What Is a Glyph
What Is a Font
Understanding Type on the Web
Find Fonts
Solutions for Fonts on the Web
Adding Fonts to the Font Stack
Web Safe Fonts
Webfonts
Installing Webfonts on Your Computer
The End User License Agreements and You
Webfont Service Bureaus
Choose
Types of Type
What Your Font Has to Have
What to Look For
Combining Type
Choosing Type Checklist
Style
Constancy in Styles
Style Weight
Styling Italic and Oblique
Styling Color
Type Effects
Styling Text with Borders and Backgrounds
Scale
Understand Relative and Absolute Unit Types
Type Size and Line Height
Type Space
Text Alignment
Space
Type Space 1
Iconography
When to Use Icons
Choosing Icons
Responsive Icons
Using Webfont Icons
Styling Webfont Icons
Hierarchy
Do Not Design by Default
From Box to Grid
Body Copy
Navigation and Controls
Guiding the Reader’s Eye
Balancing Readability and Retention
Contrasting Type
Typography at Hand
Appendix
Biography
Jason Cranford Teague designed the first web based magazine, Computer Mediated Communications, in 1994 and has been at the forefront of digital innovation ever since. He is the co-founder and lead creative at The Cranford Teague Group, which specializes in digital communication strategies. Learn more at www.cranfordteague.com. Stephen Boss has consulted on type projects for Fairchild, JP Morgan Chase, Bumble and bumble, and Oshkosh. His work has been featured around the world, including in several publications and as part of the Seybold's New Type Gallery exhibition, a show which travelled from New York City to England, the Royal Academy of Art in the Hague, and finally to Harvard, where it is archived. He is also in the designer database in the Klingspor Museum in Offenbach, Germany. Interested in developing typefaces with a unique vernacular, he founded Emboss Fonts in 1995.
