Fonts

The ability to customize fonts— in Mac OS, in word processing documents, in Web pages— is really nothing new. However, when it comes to changing fonts on Web pages, the mechanism is decidedly less intuitive and certainly less than easy. Having to litter a Web page with FONT FACE tags makes for larger files, and larger headaches as you weed through these tags to find that one misspelled word. CSS makes the process of selecting a font easy, and even better, it provides a fallback mechanism for those times when users don'’t have the fonts you wanted to appear.

Apple Inc. (2006). Design>Web Design>Typography>CSS

Power To The People: Relative Font Sizes

Relative font sizes may make websites more accessible — but they’re not much help unless the person using the site can find a way to actually change text size. Return control to your audience using this simple, drop-in solution.

Mihelac, Bojan. List Apart, A (2004). Design>Web Design>Typography>CSS

Text Sizing

Being unhappy with the current wisdom and distrustful of our browsers, I wanted to have the font sizing options laid out so I could see where they did and didn't work. So I made 264 screenshots. This collection is posted for anyone else who is unhappy and distrustful.

Noodle Incident, The (2002). Design>Web Design>Typography>CSS

Toward a Standard Font Size Interval System

This document discusses the strengths and weaknesses of various deployed and recommended methods of specifying font sizes in Web documents and application interfaces, and proposes a harmonization. This scheme will enhance the legibility, clarity, and aesthetics of documents presented on screen, and help retire less elegant alternatives that are hurtful to the Web as a dynamic information resource - one that is accessible to users with widely varying needs and purposes. It is intended for Web browser and stylesheet implementors of all religions, but may be of interest to Web authors and digital typography and/or CSS enthusiasts at large.

Fahrner, Todd. Cleverchimp (1999). Design>Web Design>Typography>CSS

The Trouble With Em 'n En

More than you ever wanted to know about dashes, spaces, curly quotes, and other vagaries of online typography. HTML specs, grammatical rules, browser bugs and character encoding—it’s all here.

Sheering, Peter K. List Apart, A (2001). Design>Web Design>CSS>Typography

Typography Matters

It's a style thing. It's a usability thing. It's a tricky thing for large content sites and a step up for independents. It's typographically correct punctuation on the web, and ALA's associate editor makes the case for it.

Kissane, Erin. List Apart, A (2001). Design>Typography>CSS>Web Design