Practical Responsive Typography

Dario Calonaci

• Verlag: Packt Publishing
• Jahr: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781785884634
• Auflage: 1
• Thema: Informatik
• Thema: Webprogrammierung

Get your attractive type design up and running in the browser with real-world, responsive, and tailored tutorials

About This Book

• No coding experience necessary - get started with responsive typography today!
• Find out how to customize your own typography designs to truly own your website's identity
• From the basics to cutting-edge design, this book is the perfect guide

Who This Book Is For

This book is for web developers familiar with the basics of HTML5 and CSS3 who want to learn how to implement responsive typography. No coding experience is required, so dive in and get started!

What You Will Learn

• Customize and personalize fonts on a responsive website
• Learn how to write CSS3 rules for viewports
• Define media queries and write them using CSS3 and HTML5
• Implement SASS typography techniques to minimize the CSS output and manage the font variables
• Get to grips with dropcaps and learn how to use them effectively on the web

In Detail

Typography is an essential part of any website's design. It can help you stand out from the crowd, communicate with clarity, and cultivate a distinctive identity.

Practical Responsive Typography demonstrates how to use typography to greatest effect. With this book you won't underestimate it's importance - you'll be in complete control over this crucial component of web design. From scaling and optimizing screen spaces to using a range of different web fonts, you'll quickly get up to speed with the practical considerations behind successful typography.

But more than the fundamentals, you'll also find out how to go further by customizing typography designs to suit your identity.

Style and approach

This is an easy-to-follow guide full of real-world examples and tutorials. Each typography style and rule is clearly explained and placed in context.

Practical Responsive Typography

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Table of Contents

Practical Responsive Typography

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Web Typography

Developing your knowledge

Anatomy of the character

Typeface or font? A guide to the distinction

Typefaces classification

Serifs

Old Style or Humanist

Transitional Serifs

Modern Serifs

Slab Serifs

Sans Serifs

Grotesque Sans

Neo-Grotesque Sans

Humanist font

Geometric font

Script typefaces

Formal script

Casual script

Monospaced typefaces

Display typefaces

Expressing different moods

Serifs vs Sans

Scripts vs scripts

Display typefaces

Combining typefaces

Typography properties

Kerning

Tracking

Ligatures

Leading

Information hierarchy – giving order to your text

Alignments

Rag

Justification of text

Summary

2. Responsive Typography

Creating the page

Let's wander through CSS

Up to letter and text group!

Ligatures

Hierarchy

Example and exercise!

The intrinsic nature of type

Summary

3. Web Fonts and Services

The free services for font embedding

CSS @font-face

The local property

Bold and italic

Problems with @font-face

Font Squirrel and its generator

And now what?

Google web fonts

Time for a couple of paid services

Typekit

Cloud typography

Summary

4. Modern Scale

What is a font scale?

Creating a new scale

What is an em?

Why are ems important?

Defect in the em element

The CSS3 solution

What to expect from rems?

Time to get back to the scale

A more complex exercise

Vertical rhythm

A little note on ems and rems

Summary

5. Viewport and Size

The viewport concept

CSS3 custom units

Summary

6. Media Queries

How to write them

Media queries for responsive design

Summary

7. Sass and Typography

CSS pre-processors and Sass

Sass and LESS: A comparison

Installing Sass

Your small Sass tutorial

More Sass properties

Sass for responsive typography

Too many breakpoints

Adding line-height

Summary

8. Three Step Responsive

It actually takes more than three steps

A Sass powered one page website

Another solution using JRibbble

Sass stylizing our carousel

Modular typography scale with Sass

Sass Mixin for easy responsiveness

A Sass generated responsive grid

Summary

9. Future Responsive – Hinting

What is font hinting?

The four different hinting processes

Black and white rendering

Gray-scale rendering

ClearType rendering

DirectWrite rendering

Difficulties for type designers – and hinting's future

Another problem with pixel densities

My solution for hinting on the Web

Summary

10. Future Responsive – Drop Caps and Shapes

What drop caps are and how to use them

Drop cap with an image

Letter over an image

Creating a class with no image

Drop caps with pseudo-elements

Onto the future – Shaping your text

A shape tutorial

Defining a shape using an image

CSS shapes in responsive web design

In the future

Summary

Index

Practical Responsive Typography

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Credits

Author

Dario Calonaci

Reviewer

Chen Hui Jing

Commissioning Editor

Amarabha Banerjee

Acquisition Editor

Tushar Gupta

Content Development Editor

Mamata Walkar

Technical Editor

Nirant Carvalho

Copy Editors

Safis Editing

Madhusudan Uchil

Project Coordinator

Shweta H Birwatkar

Proofreader

Safis Editing

Indexer

Pratik Shirodkar

Graphics

Kirk D'Penha

Production Coordinator

Arvindkumar Gupta

Cover Work

Arvindkumar Gupta

About the Author

Dario Calonaci is a published author, correspondent, and professional advisor as well as design writer and reviewer for many publications, both print and online. Having worked on projects for The Ritz-Carlton and on Obama for America '12, The United Nations Rio+20 Conference, he's a well-known expert in the field of typography, which made him start teaching that and web design in his early twenties! As a member of various international groups, his art has been published worldwide in a plethora of books and magazines, from Phadon to Zeixs, and has been exposed in many openings, from New York's Times Square to the Senate Library in Rome.

He runs his own design firm at Kerned Studio in Florence for clients such as Gucci, Calvin Klein, and Berni among many others. You can take a look at his work on www.kernedstudio.com and www.dariocalonaci.com.

About the Reviewer

Chen Hui Jing is a self-taught designer and developer from Singapore. Reducing the lines of code in her web projects makes her extremely happy. She used to play basketball full time and launched her web career during downtime between training sessions.

As a strong believer of HTML and CSS being the foundation of the Web, and she started Talk.CSS, the first CSS-centric meetup in Singapore, to encourage developers to further their understanding of CSS and how it can improve our designs on the Web.

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