Today’s topics are a last look at typography.
- The typography crash course.
Here is a summary page of my Top 12 Tips for using type on the Web. To understand @font-face {} see p. 277, in HTML & CSS.And here is Sitepoint on six basic type errors to avoid online.
On my sabbatical, I put together a photo essay on the use of Brush Script that I have been collecting for some time. We'll look back at this later, as it is built in CSS Grid and uses a current version of Lightbox JavaScript. For now think about what this can teach us about design and typefaces.
Plus you should start thinking about your website. It can be your portfolio, or an information site about a topic you know well. Take a look and start thinking about a design. Note that you will be linking 5 or 6 pages together with local, or relative URLs, as opposed to absolute URLs (see HTML & CSS p. 79).
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