The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web

For any­body who needs to know more about typo­graphy on the web, and that is any­body who works with HTML and CSS, you need to book­mark (or grab the RSS feed from) The Ele­ments of Typo­graphic Style Applied to the Web

Richard Rut­ter is tak­ing Robert Bringhurst’s clas­sic book The Ele­ments of Typo­graphic Style and apply­ing it to the web. Only six small sec­tions so far, but I have learnt a few things already.

And when I say any­body who works with HTML and CSS needs to know more about typo­graphy on the web, I mean it. There are very few sites that impress me with their typo­graphy, yet I can pick up almost any magazine (ok except Desktop their type choice with the latest redesign do not appeal to me) and be happy with the typo­graphy. Sure they are totally dif­fer­ent formats and print has a solid typo­graph­ical his­tory. But type on the web can be good, for example Richard Rutter’s, Mark Boulton’s and Jason Santa Maria’s blogs, it just seem’s very few other people under­stand type on the web, the way print design­ers under­stand type on paper.

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