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Flexible Typesetting

jpamental — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 18:49:34 +0000

Flexible Typesetting jpamental Wed, 08/01/2018 - 14:49

Tim Brown (@typesetting) illuminates the complex, beautiful world of typesetting—arguably the most important part of typography because it forms the backbone of the reading experience—and shows us how to parry the inevitable pressures that arise when we can no longer predict how, and where, our text will be read.

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Typography

Webfont Handbook

jpamental — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 19:02:40 +0000

Webfont Handbook jpamental Fri, 09/01/2017 - 15:02

There’s more to choosing a webfont than aesthetics—rendering, language support, hosting, and licensing are equally crucial to communicating your message. Think of webfonts as progressive enhancement, and learn how to harness CSS and browser features to improve performance. From selection to optimization, Bram Stein’s primer shows you how webfonts can make the web a more visually diverse, efficient, and readable environment.

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Typography

Web Typography

jpamental — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 18:37:32 +0000

Web Typography jpamental Tue, 08/01/2017 - 14:37

Rich’s exhaustive work is about far more than just the web. There’s a huge amount of history, typographic insights, and of course, just about everything you could ask about typography on the web.

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On Web Typography

jpamental — Sat, 11 Apr 2015 13:42:27 +0000

On Web Typography jpamental Sat, 04/11/2015 - 09:42

Jason Santa Maria’s approachable guide to web typography narrates the thought process behind working with type, from choosing fonts to crafting hierarchies to building grids. Rather than handing down a list of rules and prohibitions, Santa Maria walks side by side with readers through a creative journey. He invites us to think about our own reading experience right now—as we peruse this book—by providing clear and compel- ling examples for visual comparison. We the readers get to judge and evaluate different styles, combinations, and configurations of type, applied to real text that we can picture in the real world.

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Responsive Typography: Using Type Well on the Web

jpamental — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 13:27:56 +0000

Responsive Typography: Using Type Well on the Web jpamental Fri, 04/10/2015 - 09:27

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

Book Jason Pamental

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