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Practical Responsive Typography

By : Dario Calonaci
Book Image

Practical Responsive Typography

By: Dario Calonaci

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Practical Responsive Typography
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 2. Responsive Typography

We have learnt all the basics of typography, and now we will learn how to apply them to the Web through simple HTML and CSS.

We'll learn how to stylize the written content on your website by creating the page and going through CSS properties.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics in detail:

  • Creating the page

  • Using CSS properties

  • Ligatures

  • Hierarchy

  • Example and exercise to use the typography rules!