Typography for the Web—NY Web Standards Meetup
April 16, 2009 | Posted by Christy Gurga | 3 comments
This month, I presented "Typography for the Web" at the NY Web Standards Meetup. Right now, typography on the web has been receiving lots of attention from both designers and developers alike—designers wanting to know what their constraints are and developers wanting to know the best practices for implementing advanced typography. I covered a wide range of topics so that people can continue to research and learn about this rapidly-changing field.
Slides, photos, video and audio from "Typography for the Web"
Listen to the event:
Watch "Typography for the Web" on Ustream.tv and view photos from it on Flickr!
Here is a list of resources that follow along with the topics covered in the presentation:
Building a foundation
- Eight definitive font stacks
- PX to EM
- How to size text using ems
- The typographic scale
- Setting type on the web to a baseline grid
- Compose to a vertical rhythm
Formatting headings
- Nine techniques for CSS image replacement
- Facelift
- Install FLIR
- FLIR Security Check
- sIFR3 Documentation
- This is how you get sIFR to work
- sIFR3 hard drop shadows
- Cufon – fonts for the people
- Cufon on github
- Cufon font embedding
- Web fonts with @font-face
- Combining Cufon and @font-face
Noticing the details
And more!
- Better pull quotes with jQuery
- Typography blogs for your inspiration
- Fuck the foundries
- exljbris Font Foundry
What are some of your favorite typography resources? How do you feel about one type of replacement technique over another? Please continue the conversation in the comments below
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Good presentation – thanks for the live video for those of us that couldn’t make it!
For anyone who wants to learn more about typography in general, I highly recommend “The Elements of Typographic Style” by Robert Bringhurst.
One really interesting resource on web typography is adapted from the principles introduced in the above mentioned book:
http://webtypography.net/
Adam
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