Web Design References
Typography
Font Sizing
Articles & Related Links
- @font-face
- 15
Best License-Free Pixel Fonts - Vitaly Friedman
- 25 Best
License-Free Quality Fonts - Vitaly Friedman
- A Better Way to Use Icon Fonts - Eric Eggert
- A
Comparison of Two Computer Fonts: Serif versus Ornate Sans-Serif - S.
Morrison & J. Noyes
- A Comparison of
Popular Online Fonts: Which is Best and When? - 2001 study by Michael
Bernard, Melissa Mills, Michelle Peterson, & Kelsey Storrer, Psychology
Department at Wichita State University
- A Comparison of
Popular Online Fonts: Which Size and Type is Best? - 2002 study by Michael
Bernard, Bonnie Lida, Shannon Riley, Telia Hackler, and Karen Janzen
- A
Guide to Web Typography - John Boardley
- Little-Known
CSS3 Typographic Features - Louis Lazaris
- A Shared Encyclopedia of Typefaces - Jason
Santa Maria et al
- Accessible Web Typography
- An Introduction For Web Designers - Jim Byrne
- Add
Extra Lead Before and After Block Quotations - Richard Rutter
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Add Windows Vista Fonts to Your Stylesheets - Christian Montoya
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At Hyphenated Line-Ends, Leave at Least Two Characters Behind and Take at Least
Three Forward - Richard Rutter
- Arial
Versus Helvetica - John Boardley
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Best
Fonts for the Web Kathy Marks
- Better
Font Management - Joel Sacks
- Better CSS
Font Stacks - Nathan Ford
- Better
Font Families in CSS - Lorraine Nepomuceno
- Bulletproof
@font-face Syntax - Paul Irish
- Centering Text on the Longest
Line - Richard Rutter
- Character
Entity References in HTML 4.0 - Jukka 'Yucca' Korpela
- Channel
Verdana - online source for information about the Verdana Typeface
- Choose a
Basic Leading that Suits the Typeface, Text and Measure - Richard Rutter
- Choose
a Comfortable Measure - Richard Rutter
- Clarendon is the new
Helvetica - Jeffery Zeldman
- Code Style Font
Sampler Code Style
- Compose to a
Vertical Rhythm - Richard Rutter
-
Contrast Rebellion - Zoltan Gocza
and Richard Gazdik
- Creating Custom Font Stacks
with Unicode-Range - Drew McLellan
- Cross Browser Drop Caps with CSS - Ian Devlin
- CSS
Gradient Text Effect - Nick La
- CSS Typography - Garrett Dimon
- Define
the Word Space to Suit the Size and Natural Letterfit of the Font - Richard
Rutter
- Don't
Alter the Widths or Shapes or Letters Without Cause - Richard Rutter
- Don't
Be Afraid of Serif Fonts - David Rodriguez
- Don't
Letterspace the Lower Case Without a Reason - Richard Rutter
- Drop Cap - The Next
Generation - James Edwards
- Drop Caps - Historical Use And Current Best Practices - Laura Franz
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Effective Use of Typography in Applications for Children - Catalina
Naranjo-Bock
- Enhancements to Georgia
and Verdana Typeface Families Announced - Ascender
- Examining the
Legibility of the Number One and the Division Symbol - D. Fox, B. Chaparro,
and E. Merkle
- Examining
the Legibility of Two New ClearType Fonts - Barbara S. Chaparro, A. Dawn
Shaikh, and Alex Chaparro
- Examples of
Typographic Style on Commercial Web Sites - Christian Watson
- Fine Typography for
the Web - Dave Shea
- Fighting
Bad Typography Research - Alex Poole
- Font Comparisons
- Font
Embedding Now - Dave Shea
- Font Stacks -
Russ Weakley
- Font Smoothing,
Anti-Aliasing, and Sub-Pixel Rendering - Joel Spolsky
- FONT Tag Considered
Harmful! - W3C
- Fonts,
Typography, And How We Read Online - Susan Weinschenk
- For and Against
Standardizing Font Embedding - Bert Bos
- Four Ways to
Mix Fonts - Veerle Pieters
- Free Will for
Typeface Selection - Myth or Reality? - D. Fox
- Fun With Fonts -
Simon Jessey
- Fun With Fonts 2 -
Simon Jessey
- Georgia &
Verdana - Daniel Will-Harris
- 'helvetica,
arial', Not 'arial, helvetica' - Jens Meiert
- How Not to Advance
the Discussion of Web Fonts - Joe Clark
- HTML E-Mail:
Text Font Readability Study - Ralph F. Wilson
- Increase Your
Font Stacks With Font Matrix - Richard Rutter
- Improving
Accessibility Through Typography - Joe Dolson
- In
Continuous Text Mark All Paragraphs After the First with an Indent of at Least
One en - Richard Rutter
- Indent
or Center Verse Quotations - Richard Rutter
- Introducing
Typekit - Jeffrey Veen
- Is
Multiple-Column Online Text Better? It Depends! - J.R. Baker
- Justified
Text By Steve Grobschmidt
- Keep Your
Font Stacks from Falling Over - Louis Simoneau
- Kern
Consistently and Modestly Or Not All - Richard Rutter
- Knockout Type - Thin Is Always
In - Shaun Inman
- Know Your
Typefaces! Semantic Differential Presentation of 40 Onscreen Typefaces - A.D.
Shaikh
-
Line Length
- Looking
at Type - Mark Boulton
- Manipulating
Space with CSS - Christopher Schmitt
- Marginalia of Web
Design - Jakob Nielsen
- Microsoft's
Forgotten Monopoly - Hakon Wium Lie
- More
Meaningful Typography - Tim Brown
- Moving CSS Typography Forward -
Richard Rutter
- On Choosing
Type - John Boardley
- On Fonts for the Web - Richard
Rutter
- On Web
Typography - Jason Santa Maria
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Opera 10 Unleashed, Brings Web Fonts and Transparency to the Table - David
Storey
- Pixel Fonts,
Legibility and Screen Economy - Craig Kroeger
- Perception
of Fonts: Perceived Personality Traits and Uses - A. Dawn Shaikh, Barbara S.
Chaparro, and Doug Fox
- Perceived
Personality and Uses of Fonts: We Need Your Input! - A.D. Shaikh, J. Slocum,
and Z. Zaccagni
- Problems With Font Rendering on
Macs - Richard Rutter
- Problems With
the Sans-Serif Hack - Harry Roberts
- Project
Dyslexie - Christian Boer
- Real Fonts and
Rendering - The New Elephant in the Room - Jeffrey Zeldman
- Real Web
Type in Real Web Context - Tim Brown
- Roundup
of Font Embedding and Replacement Techniques - Zoe Gillenwater
- Say No to Faux Bold - Alan Stearns
- Setting Type
on the Web - Daniel Will-Harris
- Sans-Serif - Chris
Coyier
- Setting Type
on the Web to a Baseline Grid - Wilson Miner
- Set
Opening Paragraphs Flush Left - Richard Rutter
- Seven
Web Fonts Showcases - Chris Mills et al.
- Simple
CSS: Creating More Readable Text - David Rodriguez
- Specifying Fonts
in Web pages
- Styling Text
101 - Virginia DeBolt
- Text Instead
of Images - W3C
- The Best Faces for the
Screen - Daniel Will-Harris
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The Changing Typography of the Web - Deborah Netburn
-
The Showcase Of BIG Typography - Second Edition - Vitaly Friedman and Sven
Lennartz
- The Science of
Word Recognition - Kevin Larson
- The
Effect of Typeface on the Perception of Email - A.D. Shaikh, D. Fox, and B.
Chaparro
- The Elements of Typographic Style Applied
to the Web - Richard Rutter
- The Future of Web Font
Embedding - Richard Rutter
- The New Typography - Richard
Rutter
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The Next Big Thing in Online Type - Anne Van Wagener
- The
Non-Typographer's Guide to practical Typeface Selection - Cameron Moll
- The Scouge of Arial -
Mark Simonson
- The Science of
Word Recognition or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bouma - Kevin
Larson
- The Technology of Text -
Kevin Larson
- They're Not
Fonts! - Allan Haley
- Thinking with Type
- Top Ten Tips for Web Typography -
Richard Rutter
- Typechart - Browse Web Type, Grab CSS
- typechart.com
- Typesetting Paragraphs on Web Pages - Louis Lazaris New!
- Type
and colour - Joe Clark
- Type: the
Extra Mile - Dave Shea
- Type-O-Graphy:
making words stand out, every time - Stephen Van Doren
- Typography and the
Aging Eye: Typeface Legibility for Older Viewers with Vision Problems - Paul
Nini
-
Typography
on the Web: Questions for Jeffrey Zeldman-Part 1 - Ellen Lupton
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Typographically Correct Punctuation on Web Sites - Stephen Morley
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Ubiquitous Web Font Embedding Just Got a Step Closer - John Allsopp
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Use Uppercase (Capitalised) Text Judiciously - Roger Johansson
- Using
Kerning for Better Headlines - Kim Dudley
- Verdana
Pro (and Con) - Jeffrey Zeldman
- Wharton Assitt's Pages on Colour Theory
and Typeface Design - Wharton Assitt
- Web
Design is 95 Percent Typography - Oliver Reichenstein
- Web Design Manifesto 2012 - Jeffery Zeldman New!
- Web Fonts
at the Crossing - Richard Fink
- Web
Fonts Now (How we're doing with that) - Jeffery Zeldman
- Web Type Will Save Us (Or, Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Retina Display?) - Jeffery Zeldman
- What's Wrong With
the FONT Element? - Warren Steel
- What's
Wrong With FONT FACE - microsoft
- Whatever Happened to
font-stretch? - Richard Rutter
- Which
Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces? - Alex Poole
University of Minnesota Campuses