Lynda com – Responsive Typography Techniques

Learn how to create typography that’s beautiful, functional, and easily scalable across tablets, phones, and computers of all types and sizes. Designer Val Head shows you how to choose quality web fonts, develop a typographic scale and rhythm throughout your design, and build bulletproof font stacks. Plus, learn how to use media queries and CSS rules to keep your type looking great at any size. This course is a collection of best practices and techniques that will soon be an indispensible part of any web typesetter’s toolbox.

Topics include:

•Deciding between self-hosted and hosted web fonts
•Sizing your type with pixels, ems, and rems
•Applying and choosing a typographic scale
•Creating a font stack
•Maintaining line lengths
•Using media queries to set natural typographic break points
•Tools for controlling type dynamically with JavaScript and jQuery