Prioritizing Web Usability

Chapter 7. Typography: Readability & Legibility

• Tip: The Downside of Dummy Type

• Four Top Guidelines for Type

221 Body Text: The Ten-Point Rule

• Tip: Avoid Anti-Aliasing

• Age Is Not the Issue

• Tip: When the Same Size Appears Smaller

• Planning for Differences in Hardware

• Common Screen Resolutions

• Accessibility Affects All of Us

227 Relative Specifications

• The Rule of Relative Size

• Designing for Vision-Impaired Users

232 Choosing Fonts

• When in Doubt, Use Verdana

• When Will Screens Read as Well as Print?

235 Mixing Fonts and Colors

• The Case Against Caps

• Text and Background Contrast

• Two Ways to Make Colors Pop

• Common Color Blindness

247 Text Images

249 Moving Text

• More Information

Artistic elements such as typography and ...