Tag: typography

Font metrics and vertical space in CSS

We put a lot of effort into the quality of the fonts in the Typekit library. As part of that work, we’ve been researching the relationship between font math and CSS, and would like to share what we’ve found. If you’ve ever wondered why some fonts look smaller than others at the same typeset size, […]
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Create Beautiful CSS3 Typography

It has been suggested that beautiful and usable websites are created on a foundation of beautiful and usable typography. I’ve even read an article that suggests that the web is actually comprised of 95% typography. I’m not convinced that there is any empirical evidence for this figure, but I think that the point is a […]
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Ever Thought About Using @Font-face for Icons?

The evolution of Internet technologies never ceases to amaze. Seemingly daily, new concepts and techniques are being thought up by creative and talented people. With modern browsers being adopted at a greater rate, systems like CSS3 are becoming more and more viable for use on projects of all sizes. Clearly, this can be seen by […]
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Quick and Easy CSS @font-face Code

What seems to be an ideal chunk of CSS code for implementing the @font-face rules. Tested on quite a few browsers, including the following: Safari 3.1+, Opera 10+, Firefox 3.5+, Chrome 4.0+, Internet Explorer 6+ This technique delivers your custom fonts quite consistently to all of these browsers, and degrades gracefully for those that don’t […]
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CSS3 Background-Clip & @Font-Face

With no clear purpose or plan, I’ve resolved to experiment with CSS3 on a regular basis. Some of these note-posts may be more useful and practical than others, but the only way to know for sure is to learn by doing. That being said, here is another experiment with background-clip: text and @font-face via Typekit…
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How to Create Inset Typography with CSS3

In this tutorial, we’ll create inset type, a popular text treatment, using CSS. If you follow Six Revisions closely, you’re probably thinking: "Jacob already wrote a Photoshop tutorial on how to do that." That is correct, but this time we are going to do it using only CSS…
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The Future Of CSS Typography

There has been an increasing and sincere interest in typography on the web over the last few years. Most websites rely on text to convey their messages, so it’s not a surprise that text is treated with utmost care. In this article, we’ll look at some useful techniques and clever effects that use the power […]
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How to Create a Cool Anaglyphic Text Effect with CSS

Anaglyphs are those amazing 3D images that are created by offsetting two of the red, green and blue channels, and are viewed with those nerdy looking 3D glasses with different coloured lenses. I don’t know if this effect works for real, as I’ve unfortunately misplaced my 3D specs, but it’s a pretty cool text effect […]
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Smoother @font-face embedding in IE 7 & 8

You could say I’ve become somewhat obsessed with @font-face embedding over the past few months. I’ve most certainly fell head over heels for the @font-face generator from fontsquirrel.com see the recap below.One thing however that has always bothered me is IE7 and IE8’s rendering of embedded fonts, so today with IE tester at hand and […]
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Atatonic CSS framework

Lately there are more and more CSS frameworks popping out of ground. My issue with most of them is that they mainly focus on the grid. All the other options are added in later. This framework has it's main focus on typography. Vertical rhythm is one of the most important things in design, so why […]
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