Book description
Responsive web design helps your site maintain its design integrity on a variety of screen sizes, but how does it affect your typography? With this practical book, graphic designers, web designers, and front-end developers alike will learn the nuts and bolts of implementing web fonts well, especially how to get the best appearance from type without sacrificing performance on any device.
After examining typography fundamentals and the evolution of type on the Web, author Jason Pamental provides useful approaches, real examples, code, and advice for making your type performant, progressive, proportional, and polished—the primary ingredients of responsive typography.
- Understand how type plays a vital role in content-first web design
- Weigh the tradeoffs between self-hosting and using a font service to get the best performance for your site
- Get your type on the screen fast by designing for Progressive Enhancement
- Use a responsive relative scale to adjust proportions between typographic elements for any device or resolution
- Polish your type with ligatures, kerning, and other techniques to create rich, textured reading experiences
Table of contents
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface
- Responsive Typography: An Introduction
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I. A Bit of Backstory
- 1. On the Merits of Letters
- 2. Progressive Progress
- 3. Where Is Typography in the Design Process?
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II. Getting Started with Web Fonts
- 4. Buy or Borrow: The Designerâs Dilemma
- 5. Performance: Get Fonts on Your Site, Fast
- 6. Be Progressive: Font Sizing and FOUT
- 7. Proportion: Make It Scale, Make It Right
- 8. Polish: Finessing the Fine Points
- 9. Notes, Notions, and Sending You on Your Way
- A. Web Font Services
- B. Responsive Typography and Web Fonts in Email
- Index
- Colophon
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Responsive Typography
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2014
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781491916285
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