Web Typography

A topic within Typography, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Design.

Reading on Web Typography

2 works

Essay2006

Compose to a Vertical Rhythm

Richard Rutter

Argues that setting font size, line height and vertical margins to a shared baseline unit gives a web page a consistent rhythm as the reader scrolls, the way a well-set book maintains a steady baseline grid down the page.

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Design · Typography

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Essay2011

More Meaningful Typography

Tim Brown

Argues that web type sizes should be drawn from a modular scale — a sequence of numbers related by a fixed ratio — rather than chosen arbitrarily, so a page's type sizes relate to each other with visible logic.