Blog Topic #5: Web Typography

When you look at the resources listed in Class Blog's, the first link is called: Is "Good Web Typography" no longer an oxymoron? 

In 1988, CSS@ introduced @font-face. The @font-face declaration is a rule that can include a link pointing to a font on any server, which guarantees that font. The browser will support the font if it is placed on top of the stack. For example: Segoe Script, Verdana, sans-serif, with Segoe Script being on top of the stack.

Things have gotten a lot better for web designers as far as font linking or font embedding, which is good for us!

 To turn a font format in one’s browser cache into a working desktop font, two font formats emerged as the adopted standard: Microsoft’s Embedded OpenType (EOT), and Web Open Font Format (WOFF). WOFF seems to be in the lead as the adopted standard for font formatting.

 Another link I really liked was Type Tester. It has a standard paragraph "The quick brown fox....". You can chose the typeface, size, leading, tracking, etc. and it shows you what it will look like in regular, bold and italic! Very cool.