CSS Mastery, Third Edition

© Andy Budd and Emil Bjorklund 2016

Andy Budd and Emil Björklund, CSS Mastery, 10.1007/978-1-4302-5864-3_4

4. Web Typography

Andy Budd¹  and Emil Björklund²

(1)Brighton, UK

(2)Malmo, Sweden

Typography has been a fundamental part of graphic design since the invention of the printing press, so you’d expect it to play a central role in the field of web design. Some have gone as far as to say that web design is 95% typography. As such, it is surprising that browsers have only recently allowed us to fully embrace typography and typesetting on the Web. This opens up the possibility for us to learn from hundreds of years of typographic history, and create richly styled content that is a delight to read.

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