From the course: Responsive Typography Techniques

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,400 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Identifying quality web fonts

Identifying quality web fonts - CSS Tutorial

From the course: Responsive Typography Techniques

Start my 1-month free trial

Identifying quality web fonts

The term web font is applied to so many fonts these days, whether or not they were actually designed for the web, at all. In this tutorial, you'll learn ways to identify quality web font choices using research and testing them firsthand to make informed choices when you select your web fonts. Not all fonts for the web were made for the web. It's confusing but it's true. There's a big difference between fonts that have just been run through some kind of automated generator, and ones that were designed specifically and intentionally for use on the Web. As designers and builders of the web, we tend to blame the browsers or the type designers for these rendering differences that we see. But that's not really the whole picture. There are a number of things going on behind the scenes that affect how our type is rendered in the browser. The operating system and the text rendering system that operating system uses, the file formats that the font's available in, as well as preferences and…

Contents