This course focuses on the theories behind web fonts: what makes a good font, why different fonts look the way they do, and how fonts affect the look of a web page. Author Laura Franz covers common tasks, including downloading a font from an online source such as Typekit or Font Squirrel, implementing the font in HTML and CSS, and changing the size and line-height to improve the readability of text. The course also covers different periods of type design and explores the history behind handwritten fonts, text fonts (used for large amounts of text), and display fonts (used for headlines).
Topics include:

Explaining the history of text fonts, from Old Style, Transitional, and Modern to Slab Serif and Sans Serif
Understanding font classifications
Setting up a Typekit account
Choosing a quality font based on forms, spacing, and weights and styles
Accessing fonts from various sources
Implementing fonts with the @font-face syntax
Looking at how fonts affect the look and feel of a web page
Changing font styling to improve readability
Making various font weights and styles work correctly across multiple browsers
Pairing fonts (headline and text, two fonts in text, and so on)
Setting fallback fonts

author Laura Franz
subject Design, Typography, Web, Web Design, Web Fonts
level Appropriate for all
duration 6h 52m
released Jun 27, 2012

http://www.lynda.com/course-tutorials/Choosing-Using-Web-Fonts/97715-2.html

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