Practical Responsive Typography电子书

Practical Responsive Typography

Table of Contents

Practical Responsive Typography

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Web Typography

Developing your knowledge

Anatomy of the character

Typeface or font? A guide to the distinction

Typefaces classification

Serifs

Old Style or Humanist

Transitional Serifs

Modern Serifs

Slab Serifs

Sans Serifs

Grotesque Sans

Neo-Grotesque Sans

Humanist font

Geometric font

Script typefaces

Formal script

Casual script

Monospaced typefaces

Display typefaces

Expressing different moods

Serifs vs Sans

Scripts vs scripts

Display typefaces

Combining typefaces

Typography properties

Kerning

Tracking

Ligatures

Leading

Information hierarchy – giving order to your text

Alignments

Rag

Justification of text

Summary

2. Responsive Typography

Creating the page

Let's wander through CSS

Up to letter and text group!

Ligatures

Hierarchy

Example and exercise!

The intrinsic nature of type

Summary

3. Web Fonts and Services

The free services for font embedding

CSS @font-face

The local property

Bold and italic

Problems with @font-face

Font Squirrel and its generator

And now what?

Google web fonts

Time for a couple of paid services

Typekit

Cloud typography

Summary

4. Modern Scale

What is a font scale?

Creating a new scale

What is an em?

Why are ems important?

Defect in the em element

The CSS3 solution

What to expect from rems?

Time to get back to the scale

A more complex exercise

Vertical rhythm

A little note on ems and rems

Summary

5. Viewport and Size

The viewport concept

CSS3 custom units

Summary

6. Media Queries

How to write them

Media queries for responsive design

Summary

7. Sass and Typography

CSS pre-processors and Sass

Sass and LESS: A comparison

Installing Sass

Your small Sass tutorial

More Sass properties

Sass for responsive typography

Too many breakpoints

Adding line-height

Summary

8. Three Step Responsive

It actually takes more than three steps

A Sass powered one page website

Another solution using JRibbble

Sass stylizing our carousel

Modular typography scale with Sass

Sass Mixin for easy responsiveness

A Sass generated responsive grid

Summary

9. Future Responsive – Hinting

What is font hinting?

The four different hinting processes

Black and white rendering

Gray-scale rendering

ClearType rendering

DirectWrite rendering

Difficulties for type designers – and hinting's future

Another problem with pixel densities

My solution for hinting on the Web

Summary

10. Future Responsive – Drop Caps and Shapes

What drop caps are and how to use them

Drop cap with an image

Letter over an image

Creating a class with no image

Drop caps with pseudo-elements

Onto the future – Shaping your text

A shape tutorial

Defining a shape using an image

CSS shapes in responsive web design

In the future

Summary

Index