Typography | Smashing Magazine

Posts Tagged ‘Typography’

We are pleased to present below all posts tagged with ‘Typography.’ If you still cannot find what you're looking for, try searching in the form at the top of the page (or just press the key 's' to jump to the search field right away).

New High-Quality Free Fonts

From Smashing Editorial Team
January 9th, 2012
36 Comments

Every now and then, we look around, select fresh free high-quality fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually time you should be investing in your projects. We search for them and find them ...

The Perfect Paragraph

From Heydon Pickering
November 29th, 2011
0 Comments

In this article, I’d like to reacquaint you with the humble workhorse of communication that is the paragraph. Paragraphs are everywhere. In fact, at the high risk of stating the obvious, you are reading one now. Despite their ubiquity, we frequently neglect their presentation. This is a mistake. Here, we’ll ...

16 Pixels: For Body Copy. Anything Less Is A Costly Mistake

From D Bnonn Tennant
October 7th, 2011
437 Comments

I know what you’re thinking. “Did he just say 16 pixels? For body copy? Obnoxiously big! 12 pixels is ideal for most websites.” I’d like to persuade you otherwise. In this article, I’ll explain why 16 pixels should generally be the minimum size for body copy in modern Web design. ...

Mind Your En And Em Dashes: Typographic Etiquette

From David Kadavy
August 15th, 2011
110 Comments

An understanding of typographic etiquette separates the master designers from the novices. A well-trained designer can tell within moments of viewing a design whether its creator knows how to work with typography. Typographic details aren’t just inside jokes among designers. They have been built up from thousands of years of ...

New High-Quality Free Fonts

From Smashing Editorial Team
August 2nd, 2011
48 Comments

How to Choose a Typeface

From Douglas Bonneville
March 24th, 2011
57 Comments

Choosing a typeface can be tricky. The beauty and complexity of type, combined with an inexhaustible supply of options to evaluate, can make your head spin. But don’t be baffled — and don’t despair. While there are no easy-to-follow rules on how best to choose a typeface, there are many ...

The @Font-Face Rule And Useful Web Font Tricks

From Ralf Hermann
March 2nd, 2011
61 Comments

The possibility of embedding any font you like into websites via @font-face is an additional stylistic device which promises to abolish the monotony of the usual system fonts. It surely would be all too easy if there was only one Web font format out there. Instead, there’s quite a variety, ...

Useful Typography Tips For Adobe Illustrator

From Tara Hornor
February 15th, 2011
64 Comments

Typography is not only an all-important aspect of design, it is also an art form in and of itself. Choosing the right font, the perfect spacing and even the correct shape of text can be an important factor as to whether a project fails or succeeds. Although Illustrator is not really used ...

25 New Free High-Quality Fonts

From Vitaly Friedman
December 17th, 2010
129 Comments

Every now and then we look around, select fresh free high-quality fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually time you should be investing in your projects. We search for them and find them ...

“What Font Should I Use?”: Five Principles for Choosing and Using Typefaces

From Dan Mayer
December 14th, 2010
117 Comments

For many beginners, the task of picking fonts is a mystifying process. There seem to be endless choices — from normal, conventional-looking fonts to novelty candy cane fonts and bunny fonts — with no way of understanding the options, only never-ending lists of categories and recommendations. Selecting the right typeface ...