Comments on: Typography Design for the Web

By: Tim Garret

Tim Garret — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 04:36:22 +0000

If you want to learn how to establish effective visual hierarchy, Carnegie Mellon has a short (free) online course in Visual Communication Design.

By: Corey

Corey — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 03:47:43 +0000

Average number of characters per line of text (including punctuation and spaces)=66

From: Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style
http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Typographic-Style-Robert-Bringhurst/dp/0881792063/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1297136723&sr=8-1

By: Leslie Strom

Leslie Strom — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:23:33 +0000

Surprising piece on type size and readability:

http://www.wilsonminer.com/posts/2008/oct/20/relative-readability/

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:08:25 +0000

I think this is the coolest. Rather then the user having to have your particular font installed to view it properly or making various pesky graphic images, use this site.
You can pick from 1000 fonts and simply embed their tiny snippet of code in you r page and voila! The user can read it as you intended regardless if they have that particular font installed.. Pretty cool i thought..

http://www.fontburner.com/

By: mark falconer

mark falconer — Wed, 06 May 2009 01:57:38 +0000

Mike,

Since you mentioned it in WEB 200 today, have some of your students check this out: http://www.helveticafilm.com/

Excellent film!!!

By: Erik

Erik — Wed, 06 May 2009 00:45:29 +0000

I found this great resource for some basics of typography (includes html solutions)

http://www.aisleone.net/2009/design/8-ways-to-improve-your-typography/

By: Trevor

Trevor — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 04:14:33 +0000

If you find yourself gathering fonts for use in your web designs (graphic text) check out this list of options:

(Some are free, others require purchase)
http://webdesignledger.com/freebies/40-super-sleek-fonts-for-clean-web-design