Typography
A companion site to the book On Web Typography by Jason Santa Maria.
A companion site to the book On Web Typography by Jason Santa Maria.
Below are three chapters chosen from the book that are the most important in our opinion, including history of typography.
In this chapter, we’ll look at some of the structural patterns in typefaces and see how they’re grouped and sorted. Then, we’ll examine what makes typefaces look the way they do from a visual and a technical perspective. But first, we need to talk about terminology.
In this chapter, we’ll explore how content elements within a design affect one another and how the nature of the medium itself shapes our designs.
In this chapter, we’ll continue exploring how content elements within a design affect one another and how the nature of the medium itself shapes our designs. Whatever path we embark on, composition of our layout and typographic systems needs to take our medium’s constraints into account.
Here you can find information about the history of Typography.