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Practical Responsive Typography

Practical Responsive Typography

By : Calonaci
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Practical Responsive Typography

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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.
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. Web Typography
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1. Web Typography
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Developing your knowledge
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Typefaces classification
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Sans Serifs
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Expressing different moods
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Combining typefaces
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Typography properties
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Summary
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2. Responsive Typography
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2. Responsive Typography
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Creating the page
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Ligatures
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Hierarchy
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Example and exercise!
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3. Web Fonts and Services
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3. Web Fonts and Services
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The free services for font embedding
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Font Squirrel and its generator
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Google web fonts
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Summary
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4. Modern Scale
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4. Modern Scale
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What is a font scale?
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What is an em?
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The CSS3 solution
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A more complex exercise
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5. Viewport and Size
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5. Viewport and Size
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The viewport concept
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CSS3 custom units
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6. Media Queries
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6. Media Queries
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How to write them
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Media queries for responsive design
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Summary
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7. Sass and Typography
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7. Sass and Typography
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CSS pre-processors and Sass
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8. Three Step Responsive
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8. Three Step Responsive
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It actually takes more than three steps
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A Sass powered one page website
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Modular typography scale with Sass
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Sass Mixin for easy responsiveness
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A Sass generated responsive grid
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9. Future Responsive – Hinting
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9. Future Responsive – Hinting
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What is font hinting?
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10. Future Responsive – Drop Caps and Shapes
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10. Future Responsive – Drop Caps and Shapes
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What drop caps are and how to use them
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Onto the future – Shaping your text
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Ligatures

Ligatures are important as they guarantee a better flow of legibility of the text and better readability of a word when some characters clash.

In fact, they are usually added, or better designed, when two letters are joined as a single one. This usually happens when two letters have ascenders, like ff, ft, that clash together producing a rather unpleasant result.

Even the ampersand symbol is born as a ligature, when the et in the handwritten Latin text where combined.

So, how we can apply them to the Web?

CSS3 standard introduces the property font-variant-ligatures to precisely address the matter through numerous values, such as:

  • Common-ligatures - no-common-ligatures
  • Discretionary-ligatures - no-discretionary-ligatures
  • Historical-ligatures - no-historical-ligatures
  • Contextual - no-contextual
  • Normal and none.

Each property can be declared with multiple values, containing all of the preceding declared values..

For example, if you like discretionary but not historical ligatures, you can write...

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