Web Typography Part 2
2nd edition — by Patrick McNeil — Jun. 15, 2006
The Design Element
Good typography on the web is something that really stands out to me. It
is so easy to mess it up, which means it is ultimately more likely to not
be done well. I can't even say that I have been really successful at implementing
"good" typography on the web. With so much variety in the rendering of text
it seems that we as designers give up all to quickly.
This wonderful set of sample sites did not give up, they thoroughly prove
that it is entirely possible to implement well set type on the web. I am
not sure if this is due to personal preference, but many of the sites listed
use what I consider more traditional fonts. Many of them are classical looking
serif and slab-serif typefaces. The strange thing is that I think I tend
to move away from these fonts because they always seem to look so standard
or default, and of course these sites prove me wrong.
So, if you have had some training in typography I hope you will find these
sites challenging.
Sample Usage
Links
Elements
of Typographic Style Applied to the Web
Five
simple steps to better typography
Text
sizing (tons of screenshots showing variations by browser and platform)
Type Tester (great tool for deciding on typefaces)
sIFR
The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web
CSS
Based Image Replacement (Replace text with an image of text)
