From the course: Choosing and Using Web Fonts
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Changing styling as necessary to improve the readability of the text
From the course: Choosing and Using Web Fonts
Changing styling as necessary to improve the readability of the text
So we have Calluna working in our site. We can see up here that it is on the server, because we are using a Typekit font, and it will only work on the server. But I want to take a moment and compare it to our original file, and this is from the exercise folder on the Desktop, because we don't have to have this one on our server; it's not using a Typekit font. And you'll notice that the type in Georgia looks a little bigger than the type in the Calluna version, and that's because, even though it's set at the exact same size, Calluna has a smaller x-height, so it's a little smaller and harder to read. So we're going to go in and change some of the sizing. In the universal Selector, I'd like you to change that to 16 and 23. We'll save that, and then in order to see changes, you will need to reload your Calluna site onto your server, and we can refresh this, and now it's a little bit bigger. That's good, but now the h2, which is the headings for the columns of links down here -- Popular…
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Understanding Venetian fonts4m
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Identifying a Venetian font4m 46s
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Understanding handwritten letters3m 22s
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Choosing a Venetian font3m 47s
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Creating a Typekit account and building a kit3m 43s
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Adding a Venetian font (Calluna) to your kit2m 51s
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Applying Calluna to your web site5m 54s
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Troubleshooting Typekit fonts that don't load2m 2s
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Changing styling as necessary to improve the readability of the text4m 25s
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Working with more than four styles in Typekit5m 22s
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Looking at how using a Venetian font affects the look and feel of a web page3m 31s
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