Typechart lets you flip through, preview and compare web typography while retrieving the CSS. Browse typographic styles. (See “anatomy of a style” below) Download CSS. { 1 } Compare Windows (ClearType) rendering { 3 } with Apple font rendering { 2 } Each style corresponds with a “style ID” { 4 }, which allows you [...]

Please feel free to let me know which ones are you favorite in the comment section and of course if a book you’ve read isn’t on this list, let me know about it so I can check it out! Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook Author: Dan Cederholm Topics: CSS, HTML, Design, Web-Standards [...]

Typography is an integral part of designs that use text. There are many tools out there that are available at your disposal for helping you work with type. In this article, you will find a collection of the best typography tools available on the web. What’s more, they’re all absolutely free! If you’re a web [...]

The other day I pointed out some of the differences between web design and print design. It started me thinking about some of the things I learned as a print designer that are also applicable to web design. One of the most useful is the Principle of Optimal Line Length. It states that, for any [...]

1.TypeTester The Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. Its primary role is to make web designer?s life easier. As the new fonts are bundled into operating systems, the list of the common fonts will be updated. 2.IdentiFont Identifont is the largest independent directory of typefaces on the Internet. [...]

Typography Keyboard Layout (Win / Mac) Good designers, undoubtedly, know that quotation marks look like ?this? and not like “this.” The latter are typewriter legacy and today are to be used solely in programming. Good designers also know, that dash is not the same as hyphen. The most common use for hyphens in English is [...]