Webfonts were great when most computers only had a handful of good fonts pre-installed. Thanks to font creation and buying by Apple, Microsoft, Google, and other folks, most computers have good - no, great - fonts installed, and they're a great option if you want to not load a separate font.
Pick up a book, magazine or screen, and more than likely you'll come across some typography designed by Matthew Carter. In this charming talk, the man behind typefaces such as Verdana, Georgia and Bell Centennial (designed just for phone books -- remember them?), takes us on a spin through a career focused on the very last pixel of each letter of a font.
Freetype, included in the font stack on Unix, is quite complex. There are so many layers to get it to do what it does that it's easy to get lost. From finding the font, to actually rendering it, and everything in between. Like most of the world, I use a rather low screens definition (1366x768 with 96 dpi) and rather old-ish laptop, unlike some f...
Sans Forgetica is a typeface that has been scientifically designed to aid memory retention. It was designed by a multidisciplinary team of academics and designers at RMIT University to aid students when studying.
One of the most common questions I receive from beginning UI designers is: what font size should I use for my project? Maybe it’s a website, maybe an Android app, maybe iPhone/iPad. Ever wish someone had compiled all the rules in one place?
The act of choosing two typefaces is probably the first (and often most difficult) task you do when creating a new design. Many people get stuck here, myself included. Recently, I discovered a simple method to pair typefaces effectively and I'd love to share them with you. (Hint: it's a 3×3 grid).
Until now, chances are that if we dropped text onto a web page in a system font at a reasonable size, it was legible. But with many typefaces about to be freed for use on websites, choosing the right ones to complement a site’s design will be far more challenging. Many faces to which we’ll soon have access were never meant for screen use, either because they’re aesthetically unsuitable or because they’re just plain illegible. Jason Santa Maria, a force behind improved type on the web, presents qualities and methods to keep in mind as we venture into the widening world of web type.
With the basics of the CSS language covered, the next CSS topic for you to concentrate on is styling text — one of the most common things you'll do with CSS. Here we look at text styling fundamentals, including setting font, boldness, italics, line and letter spacing, drop shadows and other text features. We round off the module by looking at applying custom fonts to your page, and styling lists and links.
Sometimes your typeface needs to convey feeling as much as meaning, and for that function more designers are turning to dramatic typography. This type of
typokurz enthält auf knapp 15 Seiten (einschließlich Titelseite, Inhalts-, Literaturverzeichnis und Stichwortregister) einige typografische Regeln – im Wesentlichen die Mikrotypografie betreffende Regeln –, die ich für wichtig und leicht umsetzbar halte. Die Regeln in typokurz helfen, typografische Fehler zu vermeiden, die mir beim Lesen verschiedenster Texte am häufigsten aufgefallen sind. Dazu gehören Briefe, Bewerbungen, Vorlesungsskripte, Referate, Hausarbeiten, Diplomarbeiten, aber auch wissenschaftliche Artikel für Journals, die noch nicht vom Verlag/Satzbüro/Lektor korrigiert wurden.
Egal ob in einem Buch, einer Zeitschrift oder am Bildschirm -- die Schriftarten von Matthew Carter haben Sie mit Sicherheit schon einmal gesehen. Mit viel Ch...
I started looking at fonts some months ago, and have been writing down a list of better quality typefaces that come free of charge. Some of these are open-source.
When PENGUIN was founded in 1935 with the radical concept of producing inexpensive paperback editions of high quality books, it adopted an equally progressive approach to typography and cover design. Under Jan Tschichold in the 1940s and Germano Facetti in the 1960s, Penguin became an exemplar of book design.
Creating great typeface combinations is an art, not a science. Indeed, the beauty of typography has no borders. While there are no absolute rules to follow, it is crucial that you understand and apply some best practices when combining fonts in a design.
R. Doubleday. MX Design Conference 2005 website, (Sep 23, 2005)Paper presented at the MX Design Conference 2005: Design Perspectives Envisioning design for the XXI century. October 26th, 27th, 28th, 2005.