Typography for Web Designers

Typography for Web Designers

Duration: 6hr 25m | Video: h264, yuv420p, 960x540 30fps | Audio: aac, 44100 Hz, 2 ch | 1.1 GB
Genre: eLearning | Language: English

Learn how to choose fonts for a web site and create beautiful, legible type. Author Laura Franz shares how to create designs that maximize readability (and keep visitors on the page) by paying attention to details in size, line-height, line length, alignment, color, vertical space, and more. Laura also demonstrates how to incorporate web fonts, style type with CSS, and pick fonts that work well together.

Topics include:

Understanding how good typography promotes reading
Choosing web-safe fonts
Applying web fonts in CSS with @font-face
Adding and applying the Google Fonts syntax
Finding and applying a good font size, line height, and line length
Improving a color palette by improving contrast and reducing optical vibration
Understanding how people mentally organize, or chunk, visual elements
Applying a system of hierarchy in HTML and CSS
Applying vertical spacing in CSS
Adding emphasis within a heading
Understanding classic and modernist typographic pages
Adding a list of links
Creating drop caps
Fixing quotation marks, apostrophes, and dashes

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