Join Laura Franz for an in-depth discussion in this video Using the exercise files, part of Typography for Web Designers.
If you are a premium subscriber of the lynda.com Online Training Library or if…you're watching this tutorial on a DVD, then you have access to the exercise…files used throughout this course.…When you are downloading the files or copying them off a DVD, I…recommend putting them on your desktop, so they will be easy to find…throughout the course.…The exercise files are organized in folders identified by chapter and lesson numbers.…At the start of each lesson, you will be provided with an overlay showing you…the location of the files you need.…
When you open the folder for each lesson, you'll find the HTML and CSS files you…will need to complete the exercise.…Whenever a lesson uses an image, those are provided as well.…Whenever a lesson uses a web font, you'll be asked to download the web font…files from fontsquirrel.com.…I'll show you how to download and organize web font files in Chapter 1, Lesson 7, …Downloading Web Fonts.…Some lessons use the same fonts repeatedly. In Chapters 4, 6 and 8, you'll be…
Author
Laura Franz
Released
7/14/2011- Understanding how good typography promotes reading
- Choosing web-safe fonts
- Applying web fonts in CSS with @font-face
- Adding and applying the Google Fonts syntax
- Finding and applying a good font size, line height, and line length
- Improving a color palette by improving contrast and reducing optical vibration
- Understanding how people mentally organize, or chunk, visual elements
- Applying a system of hierarchy in HTML and CSS
- Applying vertical spacing in CSS
- Adding emphasis within a heading
- Understanding classic and modernist typographic pages
- Adding a list of links
- Creating drop caps
- Fixing quotation marks, apostrophes, and dashes
Skill Level Appropriate for all
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Introduction
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Welcome1m 6s
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Using the exercise files1m 57s
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1. Using Fonts to Communicate the Meaning of a Word or Headline
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Understanding legibility4m 41s
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Downloading web fonts4m 9s
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2. Using Fonts for Text
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3. Maximizing Readability
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Understanding how we read4m 34s
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Understanding ems6m 17s
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Using ems to set line length3m 40s
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4. Visually Chunking Text
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5. Shaping a Page Using Typography
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6. Shaping a Traditional Typographic Page
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7. Shaping a Modernist Typographic Page
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8. Attending to the Typographic Details
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Fixing dashes6m 33s
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Hanging punctuation2m 54s
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Applying typographic accents2m 36s
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Vertically centering text5m 18s
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Creating drop caps5m 58s
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Conclusion
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Additional resources3m 9s
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