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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS - Fourth Edition

By : Ben Frain
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Book Image

Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS - Fourth Edition

3.5 (4)
By: Ben Frain

Overview of this book

Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS, Fourth Edition, is a fully revamped and extended version of one of the most comprehensive and bestselling books on the latest HTML5 and CSS techniques for responsive web design. It emphasizes pragmatic application, teaching you the approaches needed to build most real-life websites, with downloadable examples in every chapter. Written in the author's friendly and easy-to-follow style, this edition covers all the newest developments and improvements in responsive web design, including approaches for better accessibility, variable fonts and font loading, and the latest color manipulation tools making their way to browsers. You can enjoy coverage of bleeding-edge features such as CSS layers, container queries, nesting, and subgrid. The book concludes by exploring some exclusive tips and approaches for front-end development from the author. By the end of the book, you will not only have a comprehensive understanding of responsive web design and what is possible with the latest HTML5 and CSS, but also the knowledge of how to best implement each technique. Read through as a complete guide or dip in as a reference for each topic-focused chapter.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section I: The Fundamentals of Responsive Web Design
7
Section II: Core Skills for Effective Front-End Web Development
16
Section III: Latest Platform Features and Parting Advice
19
Other Books You May Enjoy
20
Index

Web typography

Typography on the web has come on tremendously in the last few years. It was once necessary to limit yourself to system fonts. Then, when custom fonts were made viable, a bevy of different file types was required to satisfy all the competing file implementations.

Mercifully, things have now pretty much settled on .woff and the newer .woff2. In addition, we have more control over the particulars of our fonts in CSS, and new variable fonts, which we will cover momentarily, are popping up on a monthly basis.

If some of that introduction was lost on you, fear not. Let’s try to get through the current state of the art in web typography.

First, however, let’s talk about system fonts, as they represent the best-performing web typography choice you can opt for.

System fonts

Each operating system has its own set of fonts that come pre-installed. However, aside from a few exceptions, there aren’t many fonts you can rely upon to be installed...