Choosing a typeface and adjusting font settings
Let’s start by configuring our type styles by making some font choices. For this book’s companion site, I wanted to create a site that was interesting, approachable, fun, and organized. If we return to our car analogy for a moment, we want to make font selections that advance that feeling. For example, my first car was a bright blue Hyundai Santa Fe in a very bouncy sky-blue color. She was affectionately named Blue Berrymore, and while I did not come up with this car metaphor before I put together design inspiration for this project, I’m delighted to discover my first car and the design inspiration for this project are surprisingly similar.
Typeface versus font
In this chapter, you’ll see me refer to type, typefaces, and fonts. While these three are generally interchangeable, it’s a bit of a “square is a rhombus, but a rhombus isn’t a square” situation. Typeface is the name...