Typography for Web Designers

Typography for Web Designers

Arichive : Typography for Web Designers

Typography is the most important, foundational building block of all websites making up 95% of everything we see online. Despite been so crucial to getting an application right very few designers and developers learn to master web typography.

If you’re working on a  web application, you’re making decisions about typography that will effect the branding, style, usability and user experience of you application. You’re already making these decisions but are you aware of their impact. Typography can have enough personality that we don’t need any other visuals. Typography can give life to a dull block of text and it can make it easier or harder for our user to read. If we get the typography right it can make or break the application.

The size and line height of our typography dictate the size of the vertical grid for our whole application. We need to make good typographic choices before we can finalise any other part of the design. These sizes will affect the size of everything else. We also may need the grids to adjust as the typography sizes adjust on different devices. If we want our design to have real polish we’ll need slightly adjust our grid as the type changes and we’ll need to slightly adjust our type as the device changes.

As we master our web typography every other part of our design falls effortlessly into place.