16 September 2004
Typography and CSS Formatting
The most important part of most web sites is the text, but many web developers know little or nothing about typography, or about how to use CSS to control typographic presentation effectively.
We'll talk about basic typographic terms, concepts, and formats. Then we'll spend some time exploring advanced CSS formatting properties.
Readings on Typography and CSS Formatting
- Chapters 9 and 13 of Designing With Web Standards (pages 211-233 and 299-326)
- Web Page Design for Designers: Typography
- A List Apart: Typography Matters
- A List Apart: The Trouble With EM 'n EN (and Other Shady Characters)
- The Noodle Incident: Sane Text Sizing
And a how-to for CSS text properties:
CSS and Typography: In-Class Exercise
Select a poem that you like from the "Verse" section of Bartleby.com.
Use CSS to modify the appearance of the poem.
Use Dean Allen's Textile tool to generate valid HTML entities for punctuation, as needed.
When you're done, upload the html file (and external CSS, if you used one) to your Grace account, and add an entry to your class weblog with a link to the page. If you don't already have a category set up in your weblog for in-class exercises you should add one--that will let me view your in-class work easily at the end of the quarter when I'm assessing participation.
Project Group Assignments
Group 1: Cirrus
Kirby Bolser
Brian Daggett
Colin Doody
Ted Pearson
Dan Wasyluk
Group 2: Cumulus
David Attaldo
Matthew Hersh
Markus Kunz
Brandon Lewis
Scott Skalny
Greg Waxman
Group 3: Nimbus
Milli Ahluwalia
Robert Henderson
Matthew Kampschmidt
Kurt Kubitz
Julie Mason
Hoang Tran
Group 4: Stratus
Brian Dagan
David Giudice
Bryan O'Leary
Jeremy Paris
William Parken
Jason Zeiner