Typography - Getting The Hang Of Typography

black on white is easy to read and is, at least among these Web sites, the status quo. 4. Average Font Size For Headlines Of cou ...

An obvious outlier is Wilson Miner (screenshot below), who uses a massive font size of 48 pixels for his headlines. His Web site ...

sizes between 12 and 14 pixels. The most popular font size (38%) is 13 pixels, with 14 pixels slightly more popular than 12 pixe ...

Typographica uses a large font size for the introductory paragraphs of its articles, and then reverts to a normal size for the r ...

21, 24, 36, 48, 60, 72) or the Fibonacci sequence (e.g. 16 – 24 – 40 – 64 – 104) to get natural typographic results. 6. Optimal ...

We were surprised by this result. It turns out that paragraph spacing (i.e. the space between the last line of one paragraph and ...

So, once you have decided on your body copy font size, multiplying this value by 1.5 will give you the optimal line height. Once ...

one line using the design՚s default font size. The result, which is an average of 88.74 characters per line (maximum), is extrem ...

Other Findings 46% of Web sites underlined the links in their body copy, while the others highlighted only with color or a bold ...

The most popular font size for headings is a range between 18 and 29 pixels The most popular font size for body copy is a range ...

The Typography Dress Code: Principles of Choosing and Using Typefaces Dan Mayer For many beginners, the task of picking fonts is ...

occasion. While appropriateness isn՚t a sexy concept, it՚s the acid test that should guide our choice of font. My “favorite” pie ...

A large type family like Helvetica Neue can be used to express a range of voices and emotions. Versatile and comfortable to work ...

Typefaces can be divided and subdivided into dozens of categories (Scotch Modern, anybody?), but we only really need to keep tra ...

Examples of Geometric/Realist/Grotesk Sans: Helvetica Univers Futura Avant Garde Akzidenz Grotesk Franklin Gothic Gotham At th ...

̒Geometric̓ and note how much more detail and idiosyncrasy the Humanist ̒t̓ has. Examples of Humanist Sans: Gill Sans Frutiger ...

3. Old Style Also referred to as ̒Antiqua̓ or ̒Venetian̓, these are our oldest typefaces, the result of centuries of incremental ...

4. Transitional and Modern An outgrowth of Enlightenment thinking, Transitional (mid 18th Century) and Modern (late 18th century ...

development was spurred by a competition between two rival designers who cut similar faces, Bodoni and Didot. At their best, tra ...

Serifs are an outlier in the sense that they convey very specific − and yet often quite contradictory − associations: sometimes ...