Chapter 13. Working with Browsers Part III: Typography
Along with positioning and color, typography is an essential tool of design. Print designers spend years studying the history and application of type. They learn to distinguish between faces that, to the uninitiated, look almost identical, such as Arial and Helvetica. When these traditionally educated designers come to the web, with its limited and contradictory typographic toolsets, they have often been less well equipped to navigate its rocky shoals than those from a nontraditional design background.
Size Matters
Windows, UNIX, and Macintosh systems come with different installed fonts, at different default resolutions, and often with different default rendering styles—from pixelated to gently ...
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