The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web A practical guide to web typography Read the Introduction Table of Contents Latest: 3.2.2 For abbreviations and acronyms in the midst of normal text, use spaced small caps
A note from the editors: This article, while brilliant for its time, is now obsolete. The printing press gave us type that was clearer and easier to read than that produced from a typewriter, because the typesetter had additional tools at his disposal—and knew how to use them. The web has cost us some of those tools. Lack of tools and knowledge#section2 There are two problems here. The first is th
“Space in typography is like time in music. It is infinitely divisible, but a few proportional intervals can be much more useful than a limitless choice of arbitrary quantities.” So says the typographer Robert Bringhurst, and just as regular use of time provides rhythm in music, so regular use of space provides rhythm in typography, and without rhythm the listener, or the reader, becomes disorient
95% of the information on the web is written language. It is only logical to say that a web designer should get good training in the main discipline of shaping written information, in other words: Typography. Back in 1969, Emil Ruder, a famous Swiss typographer, wrote on behalf of his contemporary print materials what we could easily say about our contemporary websites: Today we are inundated with
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