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Fluid Web Typography Book

Fluid Web Typography
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  • Fluid Web Typography
  • Written by author Jason Cranford Teague
  • Published by New Riders, December 2009
  • 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 (ya
  • 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
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Foreword vii

Preface x

1 Foundations 1

You are a Typographer 1

What is a Font? 6

Typography on the Screen 9

A Brief History of Web Typography 12

An Even Briefer History of Typography 14

What is Fluid Web Typography? 17

Type Inspirations 22

2 Characters & Symbols 25

Anatomy of a Character 25

Types of Type 30

Faking Higher Resolution with Anti-Aliased Text 34

Character and Text Encoding on the Web 35

Using Symbols 40

Html Character References 42

Type Inspirations 24

3 Fonts & Typefaces 51

Fonts on the Web 51

Web Safe Fonts 56

Of EULAS, DRM, and IP: Web Fonts and the Law 68

Web Font Linking 70

Web Font Linking Service Bureaus 84

Web Font Embedding with Javascript 92

Which Web Font Solution Should I Use? 97

Type Inspirations 100

4 Scale & Rhythm 103

Web Measurements 104

Type Size & Line Height 109

Dispelling the Above-The-Fold Myth 112

Type Space 119

Text Alignment 125

Type Inspirations 130

5 Emphasis & Contrast 133

Guiding The Reader's Eye 133

Weight 136

Browser-Synthesized Fonts 138

Italic & Oblique 140

Decoration 142

Text Case 144

Color 146

Type Inspirations 152

6 Grid & Composition 155

Do Not Design by Default 155

Html 5 and the Future of Web Typography 160

From Box to Grid 161

Choosing the Right Typeface 168

Building a Fluid Font Stack 170

A Colophon 175

Hardware & OS 175

Software 175

Typefaces 176

B Typography Resources 181

The Author's Web Sites 181

Tools 182

Font Downloads 183

Information And Blogs 184

Books & Magazines 186

C Character References 187

D Web Font Specimen Book 193

Index 237


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