Browsers, Devices, and Fonts - A Designer''s Guide to Fonts and How They Function on the Web

This practical guide to web typography helps designers understand how the typographic choices they make in layout and prototyping programs behave once they are turned into live code. This book teaches designers how to create typographic specific webpages by learning just enough HTML and CSS to be able to view the pages in different environments.

List of contents

Chapter 01 Introduction
Chapter 02 How the Web Works
Chapter 03 Setting Up Your Toolbox
Chapter 04 Typography
Chapter 05 Finding Breakpoints for Text & Images
Chapter 06 Style Guides for Everyone

About the author

Gary Rozanc is an assistant professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and the education director for AIGA Baltimore. Gary’s research has focused on discovering the best practices for teaching interactive and user experience design, specifically finding the ideal balance of visual design, user experience, and frontend development skills for the emerging interactive designer. Gary’s bi-weekly podcast series Design Edu Today, nationally recognized by the AIGA Design Educators Community and Design Incubation, helped contribute to discovering the ideal balance between design disciplines that he brings back to the classroom.

Summary

This practical guide to web typography helps designers understand how the typographic choices they make in layout and prototyping programs behave once they are turned into live code. This book teaches designers how to create typographic specific webpages by learning just enough HTML and CSS to be able to view the pages in different environments.

Product details

• Authors: Gary Rozanc
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781138612310
• ISBN: 978-1-138-61231-0
• No. of pages: 210
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Data communication, networks; COMPUTERS / Programming / Games, computer science, The arts, Internet: general works, Programming & scripting languages: general, Programming and scripting languages: general, Internet Guides & Online Services, Databases & the Web, Databases and the Web, Internet guides and online services, Web graphics & design, COMPUTERS / Internet / Web Design