Getting the Hang of Web Typography (ePub)
(Sprache: Englisch)
Getting the Hang of Web Typography is dedicated to web workers that are dealing with typography in their daily lives, but have no special training for this independent craft. This e-book gives you the necessary background on macro- and microtypography, it...
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Getting the Hang of Web Typography is dedicated to web workers that are dealing with typography in their daily lives, but have no special training for this independent craft. This e-book gives you the necessary background on macro- and microtypography, it helps you to choose suitable fonts and use modern techniques such as web font embedding. It´s a valuable book that helps you to create rich, sophisticated Web sites with beautiful and elegant Web typography.
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Web Typography – Work-arounds, Tips and Tricks (S. 96-97)Ralf Hermann
The possibilities of using custom fonts on web pages developed much quicker over the past two years than anybody expected. Today web designers still have to struggle with a clutter of font formats in order to provide for cross-browser support of a given font. However, this problem will subside as soon as the web Open Font Format (WOFF) is established as the standard web font format.
Another obstacle is the prevalence of Windows computers with deactivated subpixel rendering — either by default on Windows XP or on purpose by their users. Compared to system fonts most web fonts are displayed at a much lower quality in screen display without subpixel rendering. Time will solve this problem, when users replace their equipment with new hardware and current operating systems. Furthermore, Internet Explorer 9 will work with the text engine DirectWrite that provides a significantly improved rendering.
Using web fonts for your design entails thorough testing on as many different browsers and platforms as possible with a close look at the various options of rendering text. If the screen display is of poor quality without subpixel rendering you might want to opt for graceful degradation and deliver system fonts for users of older browsers and systems. The easiest way to exclude older browsers or operating systems from style sheets with embedded web fonts is the use of conditional comments. Of course, using JavaScript is the more elegant way to detect whether or not the client?s subpixel rendering is turned on or off.
Text Layout
Even though some web layouts are drawing nearer to print layouts thanks to rich typography and web font embedding there?s still a big difference: To this day browsers do not offer automatic hyphenation. Especially for languages with very long words, e.g. German, it is not possible to use left and right justified text
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without creating spacious gaps thus reducing the readability of body text.By means of JavaScript you can provide for a language-based client-side hyphenation. A server-side solution is offered by phpHyphenator. Nevertheless, these are still emergency solutions for a missing function that should be an integral part of any browser which it will hopefully be in the future.
OpenType Typography Features
With the spreading of web fonts another shortcoming of common browsers concerning text layout came into focus − there?s no support of OpenType typographic features that have been offered by high-end desktop publishing programs such as InDesign or QuarkXPress since version 7.OpenType functions add several smart font options that enhance the font?s typographic and language support capabilities. If the application supports these options, characters can be replaced by additional features automatically. For Latin-based script these mainly concern ligatures, fractions or small capitals.
OpenType Typography Features
With the spreading of web fonts another shortcoming of common browsers concerning text layout came into focus − there?s no support of OpenType typographic features that have been offered by high-end desktop publishing programs such as InDesign or QuarkXPress since version 7.OpenType functions add several smart font options that enhance the font?s typographic and language support capabilities. If the application supports these options, characters can be replaced by additional features automatically. For Latin-based script these mainly concern ligatures, fractions or small capitals.
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Bibliographische Angaben
- 2011, 242 Seiten, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Smashing Media
- Verlag: Smashing Media GmbH
- ISBN-10: 3943075079
- ISBN-13: 9783943075076
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.01.2011
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