Every web designer knows how to set a font’s color, right? It’s one of the first things we do when we begin learning CSS. We choose a color, then we use styles to set it, like color: blue; or color: purple;, so all the glyphs in our chosen font turn that color, and only that color.
New Course: Up and Running With Variable Fonts
Variable fonts are the next big thing in web typography. Get up to speed in our new course, Up and Running With Variable Fonts.
Jump Start Your Web Typography With “Archetype”
Archetype is a typography design tool which can really help standardize and speed up your typography workflow. Let’s explore what it can do for you in this video tutorial!
How to Use Variable Fonts on the Web
Variable fonts were developed as the joint effort of the four biggest tech companies involved in type design—Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Adobe. As the name suggests, variable fonts allow designers to derive an unlimited number of font variants from the same font file. This way it becomes possible to adjust the typeface to different devices, viewports, orientations, and other design constraints.
The Future of Web Typography: CSS Fonts Level 4
Web fonts helped to breathe life into designs, helping us avoid the system defaults so widely used during the early days of web design. With so many options available today, we as have plenty of tricks up our sleeves in order to serve and style custom fonts. Level 4 of the CSS Fonts Module outlines more intriguing options you will love, including some exciting properties such as font-min/max-size. This article won’t uncover every last crumb of level 4, but will highlight the interesting parts still in their infancy. The adventure starts now!
Web Fonts in 60 Seconds
Fonts for use on a website require files that are loaded from one of two places; the visitor’s own system, or a web server. Let’s take a quick look at web fonts in sixty seconds!
Quick Tip: How to Consistently Render Typefaces Cross-browser
In this quick tip I’m going to show you how to apply CSS based on each browser’s text rendering engine.
A Guide to Selecting Custom Fonts for Your Website
In the early days of web design, typography was somewhat overlooked. Font choices were quite limited and so the biggest decision made was often “serif vs. sans-serif”. How times have changed.
WordPress for Writers: Themes to Make Your Words Stand Out
Throughout history, we have seen just how much of an impact the written word can have. Whether used to declare freedom, spread important news or create a world of their own, words matter to us all.