Book description
Get the most out of typography in your web applications, and understand why typography is a critical component of Responsive Web Design. With this practical book, designers and 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. For typography to be truly responsive, it must be Performant, Progressive, Proportional, and Polished. This book will show you how to get there.
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 Designer’s 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: 9781491907092
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