Typography
Font Sizing.
- 3.4: Use relative rather than absolute units - W3C.
- A Dao of Web Design - John Allsopp.
- About Points and Pixels as Units.
- Accessible web text - sizing up the issues - Jim Byrne.
- Beyond the FONT tag: Practical HTML text styling - Todd Fahrner.
- Care With Font Size - Olivier Thereaux and Susan Lesch.
- Checkpoint 3.4: Use relative rather than absolute units - Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.
- Consistent and Readable Type Across Platforms - Wes Reimer.
- Default Web Browser Text Size - Felix Miata.
- Font Size: No Happy Medium - Dave Shea.
- Give the User Control Over Your Fonts - Adrian Roselli (aardvark).
- Hold on there Jake... - Timothy Luoma.
- Let Users Control
Font Size - Jakob Nielsen.
- http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/alertbox/9610.html - Jakob Nielsen.
- http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/alertbox/9707a.html - Jakob Nielsen.
- On Scalable Text - Shawn Lawton Henry.
- On Using Points - css-discuss Wiki.
- On Using Pixels - css-discuss Wiki.
- Pet Peeve: Small Body Fonts are User-Hostile - Kynn Bartlett.
- Real Practice Font Sizing - Eric A. Meyer.
- Relative font sizes and inheritance - Russ Weakley.
- Relative sizing.
- SIZE MATTERS: Making CSS font size keywords work - Todd Fahrner.
- Small is not beautiful on the web - Chad Lundgren.
- So, What Size and Type of Font Should I Use on My Website? - M. Bernard and M. Mills.
- The Amazing Em Unit - Todd Fahrner.
- Text Sizing - Owen Briggs.
- The em-quad (square).
- The Font of Foulness, Part I: Size Matters - Webreference.
- The Mad, Mad World of Pixels Per Inch (PPI) - Andrew Starling.
- Tyranny of Tiny Type: Online Design for Adults Over 50 - American Association of Retired Persons.
- The Wrong Size Fonts: Or why not to over-ride the reader's font size - Stephen Poley.
- Text Size - Steve Mulder.
- Text Size Control with CSS - Steve Mulder.
- Toward a standard font size interval system - Todd Fahrner.
- Typography by Joe Gillespie.
- Understanding Cross-Platform Text Size Differences - Bob Baumel.
- Use relative font sizes - the University of Massachusetts Boston.
- Use relative sizing and positioning (% values) rather than absolute (pixels).
- Using Relative Font Sizes - Mark Pilgrim.
- Using Relative Font Sizes - Paul Watson.
- Web Pages aren't Printed on Paper Or how I gave up trying to "control" web pages and discovered adaptability - John Allsopp.
- Why Points Suck - Todd Fahrner.
Articles & Related Links.
- A Comparison of Two Computer Fonts: Serif versus Ornate Sans-Serif - S. Morrison & J. Noyes.
- A Comparison of Popular Online Fonts: Which is Best and When? - 2001 study by Michael Bernard, Melissa Mills, Michelle Peterson, & Kelsey Storrer, Psychology Department at Wichita State University.
- A Comparison of Popular Online Fonts: Which Size and Type is Best? - 2002 study by Michael Bernard, Bonnie Lida, Shannon Riley, Telia Hackler, & Karen Janzen.
- Behind The Typeface: Cooper Black - Cheshire Dave. A humorous biography of a font, its creator and its competitors. You'll need the Flash player for this, version 5 or later which can be downloaded from macromedia.
- Building Characters: A Brief History of the Web War - Geoff Duncan. History and technical reasons behind the type size on Macs especially that can be too small to read.
- Case - Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton.
- Character entity references in HTML 4.0 - Jukka Korpela.
- Channel Verdana - online source for information about the Verdana Typeface.
- CounterSpace.
- Determining the Best Online Font for Older Adults - M. Bernard, C. Liao, & M. Mills.
- Evolution of Type - mediumbold.
- Font Comparisons.
- <FONT FACE> considered harmful.
- FONT tag considered harmful! - W3C .
- <font> vs. CSS: Why You Should Switch to Cascading Style Sheets - Jennifer Kyrnin.
- Fonts: Web-Friendly and Free - Timothy Luoma.
- Fontscape.
- Fun With Fonts - Simon Jessey.
- Fun With Fonts 2 - Simon Jessey.
- Georgia & Verdana: Typefaces designed for the screen (finally)- By Daniel Will-Harris.
- HTML E-Mail: Text Font Readability Study - Dr. Ralph F. Wilson.
- Improving Appearance of Arial Font on the Macintosh (Solutions for both Mac Users and Web Developers) - Bob Baumel.
- It Takes All Types - Peter Fielding.
- It's About Legibility - Allan Haley.
- It's time to reclaim Times New Roman on the Web - Dave Shea.
- Making Text Legible: Designing for People with Partial Sight - Aries Arditi.
- Marginalia of Web Design - Jakob Nielsen.
- Microsoft Typography.
- On Snots and Fonts - Luc Devroye.
- Pixel Fonts, Legibility and Screen Economy - Craig Kroeger.
- Reading Design - Dean Allen.
- Readability of Fonts in the Windows Environment - Thomas S. Tullis, Jennifer L. Boynton, & Harry Hersh.
- Setting Type on the Web - Daniel Will-Harris.
- Specifying fonts in Web pages.
- Terrific type tips - Raymond Pirou.
- TextArc, visualizing text - Juan C. Dursteler.
- Text instead of images - W3C.
- The Best Faces for the Screen - Daniel Will-Harris.
- The Destination Matters More Than the Journey - Dean Allen.
- The Scouge of Arial - Mark Simonson.
- The Trouble with EM 'n EN - Peter K. Sheerin. Dashes, spaces, curly quotes, and other vagaries of online typography.
- Type and colour - Joe Clark.
- Typefaces - Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton.
- Type-O-Graphy: making words stand out, every time - Stephen Van Doren.
- Typography Glossary.
- Typographer.com - This website provides an updated news feed, series of articles, interviews and tutorials covering the type industry.
- Typography I - Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton.
- Typography II - Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton.
- Typography Books.
- Typography Matters - Erin Kissane.
- Typography on the Web - Microsoft.
- Understanding web typography - an introduction - Jim Byrne.
- Unicode and Multilingual Support in HTML, Fonts, Web Browsers and Other Applications - Alan Wood.
- Using Background-Image to Replace Text: Guiltless Image Use - Douglas Bowman.
- Web Page Design for Designers - Anti-Aliasing & Type.
- Web Page Design for Designers - Typaahgrrphy.
- Web readability Research - The University of Texas.
- What's wrong with the FONT element? - Warren Steel.
- What's wrong with FONT FACE - microsoft.
- Why Do Some Beautiful Fonts in Print Look Horrible on the Web? - Shirley Kaiser.
- Why Type on the Web is So Bad - Eric Eaton.
- Web typography: the rookie mistakes - Rob Norton.
- Web Typography Tutorial - Nadav Savio.
- Working with Fonts - AppleDev.
Last modified: Friday, 30 January 2004, 03:50 PM