15th August 2011

Link reblogged from DragonI with 11 notes

The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web - a practical guide to web typography →

dragoni:

Found this in my Delicious bookmarks. Getting reacquainted with Richard Rutter’s work.

For too long typographic style and its accompanying attention to detail have been overlooked by website designers, particularly in body copy. In years gone by this could have been put down to the technology, but now the web has caught up. The advent of much improved browsers, text rendering and high resolution screens, combine to negate technology as an excuse.

Robert Bringhurst’s book The Elements of Typographic Style is on many a designer’s bookshelf and is considered to be a classic in the field. Indeed the renowned typographer Hermann Zapf proclaims the book to be a must for everybody in the graphic arts, and especially for our new friends entering the field.

In order to allay some of the myths surrounding typography on the web, I have structured this website to step through Bringhurst’s working principles, explaining how to accomplish each using techniques available in html and css. The future is considered with coverage of css3, and practicality is ever present with workarounds, alternatives and compromises for less able browsers.

At the time of writing, this is a work in progress. I am adding to the site in the order presented in Bringhurst’s book, one principle at a time. You can subscribe to an rss feed

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