Lynda.com - Typography for Web Designers
English | 6h 26m | Video: AVC (.mov) 960x540 15fps 150Kbps | Audio: AAC 48KHz 128Kbps 2ch | 697 MB
Genre: eLearning
In this course, Laura Franz shows web designers how to choose fonts for a web site and create beautiful, legible type. Typography for Web Designers shows how to create designs that maximize readability (and keep visitors on the page) by attending to size, line-height, line length, alignment, color, chunking text with vertical space, and creating hierarchy. Lessons are also included on the incorporation of web fonts, styling type with CSS, and creating font harmony by using two fonts that work well together. Examples of how professionals apply these typographic rules on their sites are also shown. Exercise files are included with the course.
Topics include:
* Understanding how good typography promotes reading
* Choosing web-safe fonts
* Applying web fonts in CSS with @font-face
* Adding and applying the Google Fonts syntax
* Finding and applying a good font size, line height, and line length
* Improving a color palette by improving contrast and reducing optical vibration
* Understanding how people mentally organize, or chunk, visual elements
* Applying a system of hierarchy in HTML and CSS
* Applying vertical spacing in CSS
* Adding emphasis within a heading
* Understanding classic and modernist typographic pages
* Adding a list of links
* Creating drop caps
* Fixing quotation marks, apostrophes, and dashes
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