Practical Responsive Typography - Softcover

Dario Calonaci

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1785884638 ISBN 13: 9781785884634

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

Take control of your website's identity by learning responsive typography techniques with this guide for creative and ambitious designers

About This Book

• No coding experience necessary - get started with responsive typography today!
• Find out how to customize your own typography designs to truly own your website's identity
• From the basics to cutting-edge design, this book is the perfect guide

Who This Book Is For

This book is for web developers who are familiar with the basics of HTML5 and CSS3 and want to learn how to implement responsive typography efficiently and effectively. However, you do not require any coding experience to make full use of this book.

What You Will Learn

• Customize and personalize fonts on a responsive website
• Learn how to write CSS3 rules for viewports
• Define media queries and write them using CSS3 and HTML5
• Implement SASS typography techniques to minimize the CSS output and manage the font variables
• Get to grips with dropcaps and learn how to use them effectively on the web

In Detail

Typography is an essential part of any website's design. It can help you stand out from the crowd, communicate with clarity, and cultivate a distinctive identity.

Practical Responsive Typography demonstrates how to use typography to greatest effect. With this book you won't underestimate it's importance - you'll be in complete control over this crucial component of web design. From scaling and optimizing screen spaces to using a range of different web fonts, you'll quickly get up to speed with the practical considerations behind successful typography.

But more than the fundamentals, you'll also find out how to go further by customizing typography designs to suit your identity.

About this title

About the Author

Dario Calonaci is a published author, correspondent, professional advisor, as well as design writer and reviewer for many publications, both print and online.

Having worked on projects for The Ritz-Carlton, Obama for America '12, The United Nations Rio+20 Conference, he's a well-known expert in the field of typography, which made him start teaching the matter and web design in his early twenties!

As a member of various international groups, his art has been published worldwide in a plethora of books and magazines, from Phadon to Zeixs, and has been exposed in many openings, from NY Times Square to the Senate Library in Rome.

He runs his own design firm at Kerned Studio in Florence, for the likes of clients such as Gucci, Calvin Klein, Berni, and many more.

You can take a look at his work on kernedstudio.com and dariocalonaci.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1785884638
• ISBN 13: 9781785884634
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 275