Typography is 95% of the web. Pick the wrong typeface and no amount of clever layout will save the page.
About the book
Jason Santa Maria makes the case that typography, not layout or color, is the backbone of good web design, and walks through the practical craft of choosing, pairing, and implementing typefaces for real projects. The book covers readability evaluation, line height and the typographic scale, and the performance tradeoffs of web font loading — the difference between a page that feels considered and one that just has text on it. It's a working designer's field guide, not a history lesson.
Best used for
—Choosing and pairing typefaces for a new web project's design system
—Fixing a type hierarchy and line-height that's making long-form content hard to read
—Deciding between system fonts and web fonts for load-time performance
“Absolutely fantastic! I loved it! It's a clear and brilliant primer on typography, and not just web typography.”
— Usman Bashir, Goodreads
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