Tag: typography

Giulio Mainardi explains the new font-display property and how it will help CSS developers improve rendering of fonts during page load.

Byron shows us a neat Sass function to convert typographic units in CSS. Learn how to convert pixels into em and percentage units with the magic of Sass.

Asha Laxmi walks you through the CSS length units you have at your disposal to size fonts like a pro: from pixels to ems, rems, viewport units and more.

Good design comes down to 3 or 4 fairly simple decisions at the beginning of a project – and then just carrying them through.

Fontcloud is a tool designed to help you browse, choose and manage you fonts – and their licensing – through your browser. Roemie takes you on the tour.

Successful global brands can become so ubiquitous that we don't almost don't notice them. Andrei shows they have some valuable typography tips to teach us.

Branding expert Andrew James looks at seven things small business owners should consider when building their branding.

Today we've put together a list of 8 impressive and distinctive headline fonts designed to give your layouts an extra touch of star power. Enjoy.

Google fonts revolutionized web fonts by bringing them to the world. They've just released the services' biggest overhauls since 2010. But is it better?

Typographic punctuation is a jumble of glittering successes and hard-luck stories. For every @ symbol, there's a lonely irony mark or neglected interrobang.

You may have run into the problem of the "jump" effect when adding bold to hover states on text links. George looks at a few ways to solve this issue.

It's easy to forget how difficult, hacky and expensive custom typography used to be. Today Monty delivers four tips to help you use Google Fonts like a pro.

Including such famous fonts as Futura and Museo Sans, geometric fonts represent one of the most useful and versatile subcategories of sans-serif typefaces.

Kelsey has compiled a collection of fun typography games sure to test your typographical skills and improve your knowledge. Have some fun and learn.

Today Laura Elizabeth delivers a 'typographic tour du force' that will lift you from middling to master in 12 minutes. Read and see.

Menus are complicated design challenge and designers have been thinking about them for a long time. What can we take from great restaurant menu design?

If web design is 95% typography, then choosing the best typography for your UI is your most critical design decision. Chris Bowler is here to help.

Sally Wood explores a variety of WordPress typography options, covering many of the popular plugins available, tools and a selection of further reading.

From Monaco to New York to Chicago, type has often been linked to cities. Apple's newest typeface San Francisco, takes a big city into small places.

Read SitePoint Podcast #175: Typography and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.

Read Building and Controlling Type-Heavy Designs Within Photoshop and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.

I love fonts! Hands down, scrolling through gobs of new fonts is one of my biggest time-killers (2nd only to Facebook). From a creative standpoint, fonts are a major driver of design for me. Often, I look for the right font prior to any other design element.

Read 10 Places to Get Free and Premium Webfonts and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.

Read Do You Rely On Embedded Fonts? and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.

Read Best jQuery Plugins for Typography and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.

Read SitePoint Podcast #148: All Aboard the Facebook Train and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.

Read Three CSS Typography Tools For Web Designers and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.

Read Introducing: DesignFestival and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.

Read Southern Savers Case Study, Part IV: Typography and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.

Read Nine Free Display Fonts to Add Drama to Your Headings and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.