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Setting up and populating prototype pages

Setting up and populating prototype pages - CSS Tutorial

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Setting up and populating prototype pages

In this tutorial, we'll look at why and how we might create typographic prototype pages for our projects. Type specimen pages can you tell a lot about the basic technical performance of a web font, but one thing they lack is context. Which is why creating our own prototype pages before making our final type decisions is a really good idea Creating your own prototype pages help you test a short list of web type options in the context of your project's unique traits. This will give you a far more realistic view of how your short list of font choices will work for you. So prototype pages will let you quickly test your type options in the context of your actual design. And they'll help you identify any trouble spots with your type early. The time to test your type options is when you've got a good idea of what the final content will be. And you've narrowed down your type choices to two or three possible anchor typefaces. Your anchor typeface is the one you'll be using for your main body…

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