Web Typography Basics

Anything you might already know about typography gets a new dimension when applied to the web. Learn how to code your own typographical design.

Good typography requires hard work, and it can take years of graphic design to develop a profound understanding of it. Things become trickier for digital designers, with a medium so fluid and diverse, information flowing faster then ever, and the need to understand how it’s done in HTML&CSS as well. Fortunately there are a lot of new tools, techniques and strategies to aid us. We’ll try some of them, such as Typecast, and will code a typography focused page from scratch, learning theory through practice.

You will:

• Work with Typecast
• Code typography focused web page
• Learn about responsive typography

You will need:

• Laptop
• Knowledge of typography for print
• Basic level of HTML&CSS