The New Web Typography: Create a Visual Hierarchy with Responsive Web Design

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction What Is Good Typography -- 1 Overview -- Choosing the Right Typeface -- Building a Fluid Font Stack -- 2 Type Basics -- What is a Glyph? -- What is a Font? -- What is Web Typography? -- Bitmap vs. Vector -- Unde...

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Hauptverfasser: Boss, Stephen (VerfasserIn), Cranford Teague, Jason (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Independence CRC Press [2017]
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Zusammenfassung:Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction What Is Good Typography -- 1 Overview -- Choosing the Right Typeface -- Building a Fluid Font Stack -- 2 Type Basics -- What is a Glyph? -- What is a Font? -- What is Web Typography? -- Bitmap vs. Vector -- Understanding Type on the Web -- Anatomy of a Character -- Typeface Variations -- Types of type: Display or Body -- Classifying Type for the Web -- Type Styles -- Character and Text Encoding On the Web -- OpenType -- 3 Finding Fonts -- Solutions for Fonts on the Web
Adding Fonts: the Font Stack Web-Safe Fonts -- Webfonts -- Firefox and the Cross-Domain Conundrum -- Installing Webfonts on Your Computer -- End User License Agreements and You -- Webfont Service Bureaus -- 4 Choose Fonts -- Types of Type -- What Your Font Must Have -- Factors to Consider -- Combining Type -- Checklist for Choosing Type -- Interview with Nicole Arnett Phillips -- 5 Style -- Consistency in Styles -- Styling Weight -- Styling Italic and Oblique Fonts -- Styling Color -- Type Effects -- Styling Text with Borders and Bacgrounds -- Style Checklist -- 6 Scale
Understanding Relative and Absolute Type Units -- Type Size and Line Height -- Horizontal Type Space -- Text Alignment -- 7 Space -- Vertical Type Space -- 8 Iconography -- When to Use Icons -- Choosing Icons -- Responsive Icons -- Using Webfont Icons -- Styling Webfont Icons -- Finding Webfont Icons or Make Your Own -- Icon Tags? -- 9 Hierarchy -- Do Not Design by Default -- From Box to Grid -- Body Copy -- Navigation and Controls -- Guiding the Reader's Eye -- Balancing Readability and Retention -- Contrasting Type -- Typography at Hand -- Visual Hierarchy -- Layout Grids -- Afterword
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Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (188 Seiten)
ISBN:9781315318875