Web in Focus

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Sum­mary:

Web typog­ra­phy just got bet­ter with our release of the PHP Typog­ra­phy and wp-​​Typography projects.

Episode Top­ics:

Typog­ra­phy defined — a his­tor­i­cal view

Goal of most web­sites — com­mu­ni­cate infor­ma­tion effec­tively. Bad typog­ra­phy will stands in the way of effec­tive communication.

Spe­cific typo­graphic ideas discussed:

• Wid­ows
• Orphans
• Proper Char­ac­ters
• Dashes
• Smart Quotes
• Frac­tions
• Ordi­nals
• Line Length (measure)
• Line Height
• Align­ment
• Jus­ti­fied Text
• Hyphen­ation
• Head­ing Hierarchy
• Para­graph Spacing

Our con­tri­bu­tion to improv­ing the web:

• PHP Typog­ra­phy
• wp-​​Typography

Jef­frey Zeldman’s book: Design­ing with Web Stan­dards (via Amazon)

Essen­tial web typog­ra­phy ref­er­ence books (via Amazon):

• The Com­plete Man­ual of Typography
• The Ele­ments of Typo­graphic Style