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Practical Responsive Typography

By : Dario Calonaci
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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

Hierarchy


Another important thing to learn, which will require that the preceding rules are applied, is hierarchy.

Its been explained in the previous chapter, it's application in the Web world is pretty straightforward.

Don't do it wrong, don't just use p with different ids. There are HTML elements since the first versions that will be rendered are better, they will be correctly read from SEO robots: the Headings elements.

They are numbered and ordered from the first to the sixth, from H1 to H6, they render correctly and differently, by default, on any browser but they are modifiable through all the preceding rules.

So you can modify their appearance any way you want, just remember to address that part correctly, with h1 being the most prominent and h6 the least. As much as they are important for your website SEO, in this book we're covering more than the writing and the visual aspect of the matter; so as a general rule, remember that every text is readable at a glance if it incorporates three...