Your web font is crap - webvisions pdx 2014
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The document discusses best practices in selecting and using web fonts to enhance web design quality. It emphasizes defining the audience, utilizing real web fonts, and carefully implementing and testing font features. Key points include examining font quality, using appropriate sizes, controlling line lengths, and leveraging OpenType features for improved readability.
Your web font is crap - webvisions pdx 2014
- 1. Presented by Jim Kidwell Your Web Font is Crap How to Choose and Use a Better One
- 2. http://extens.is/webv The Web can be an ugly place
- 7. http://extens.is/webv But it doesn’t need to be that way
- 8. http://extens.is/webv How to prevent suckage 1. Define your audience 2. Use real web fonts 3. Examine your fonts carefully 4. Implement it properly 5. Test the features
- 16. http://extens.is/webv Still relying on “web safe” fonts
- 17. http://extens.is/webv Comic Sans Impact Arial Black Arial / Helvetica" Trebuchet Verdana Courier/Courier New Times (New) Roman Georgia!
- 18. Comic Sans Impact Arial Black Arial / Helvetica" Trebuchet Verdana Courier/Courier New Times (New) Roman Georgia!
- 19. Comic Sans Impact Arial Black Arial / Helvetica" Trebuchet Verdana Courier/Courier New Times (New) Roman Georgia!
- 20. http://extens.is/webv Real web fonts • Come from a server • Provides brand consistency • Allow easily updated text • Can be made responsive with media queries
- 21. http://extens.is/webv It’s not just you. Let’s talk fruit
- 26. http://extens.is/webv Using web fonts now? Good.
- 28. http://extens.is/webv Good fonts compensate for the tricks our eyes play • Point placement • Spacing • Kerning • Overshoot • Stroke interactions • Straight to curve transitions • Round vs. straight • Caps vs. lowercase • Even weight • Stretching • Midline position • Perfect circles https://www.commarts.com/columns/know-font-sucks.html
- 29. http://extens.is/webv Character Spacing & Kerning When it’s bad, spacing between characters is uneven
- 30. http://extens.is/webv Character Spacing & Kerning When it’s good, spacing is even
- 31. Overshoot
- 34. http://extens.is/webv Hinting • Best utilize OS & display • Turn on/off best pixels • Hand-hinted, Auto or Nothing
- 35. Hinting – GDI - Greyscale http://blog.webink.com/why-fonts-suck-windows-hinting/
- 37. http://extens.is/webv Good Fonts Include • Full basic character set • Extended characters for additional languages • Ligatures • Contextual alternates • Small Caps
- 38. http://extens.is/webv Testing your font selection 1. Implement properly 2. Turn on OpenType features 3. Test font in targeted browser/OS combinations
- 40. http://extens.is/webv Bigger Body Text • Legible ≠ Comfortable! • Most web text unnecessarily small • Average 9–12 px • Suggested default: 14–16 px • Ideal size varies by font • Different x-height • Minimum legible varies
- 41. http://extens.is/webv Limit & Control Line Length • Impacts reading comfort • Aim for 55–75 characters/line • Type size ×30 is a good start • width: 30em; • Or, use max • max-width: 30em;
- 42. http://extens.is/webv Use OpenType features in CSS • Contextual Alternates • Ligatures • Contextual Ligatures • Kerning • OptimizeLegibility (Older Browser Support) http://blog.webink.com/opentype-features-css/
- 43. http://extens.is/webv Use OpenType features in CSS • OpenType is font file type • OpenType features ≠ file type • Not all features are in all fonts http://blog.webink.com/opentype-features-css/
- 44. http://extens.is/webv Use OpenType features in CSS body { -moz-font-feature-settings:"calt", "liga", "clig", "kern"; -moz-font-feature-settings:"calt=1, liga=1, clig=1, kern=1"; -ms-font-feature-settings:"calt", "liga", "clig", "kern"; -o-font-feature-settings:"calt", "liga", "clig", "kern"; -webkit-font-feature-settings:"calt", "liga", "clig", "kern"; font-feature-settings:"calt", "liga", "clig", "kern"; text-rendering:optimizeLegibility; } http://blog.webink.com/opentype-features-css/
- 45. http://extens.is/webv Contextual Alternates body { -moz-font-feature-settings:"calt", "liga", "clig", "kern"; -moz-font-feature-settings:"calt=1, liga=1, clig=1, kern=1"; -ms-font-feature-settings:"calt", "liga", "clig", "kern"; -o-font-feature-settings:"calt", "liga", "clig", "kern"; -webkit-font-feature-settings:"calt", "liga", "clig", "kern"; font-feature-settings:"calt", "liga", "clig", "kern"; text-rendering:optimizeLegibility; } http://blog.webink.com/opentype-features-css/
- 47. http://extens.is/webv Ligatures body { -moz-font-feature-settings:"calt", "liga", "clig", "kern"; -moz-font-feature-settings:"calt=1, liga=1, clig=1, kern=1"; -ms-font-feature-settings:"calt", "liga", "clig", "kern"; -o-font-feature-settings:"calt", "liga", "clig", "kern"; -webkit-font-feature-settings:"calt", "liga", "clig", "kern"; font-feature-settings:"calt", "liga", "clig", "kern"; text-rendering:optimizeLegibility; } http://blog.webink.com/opentype-features-css/
- 49. http://extens.is/webv Contextual Ligatures body { -moz-font-feature-settings:"calt", "liga", "clig", "kern"; -moz-font-feature-settings:"calt=1, liga=1, clig=1, kern=1"; -ms-font-feature-settings:"calt", "liga", "clig", "kern"; -o-font-feature-settings:"calt", "liga", "clig", "kern"; -webkit-font-feature-settings:"calt", "liga", "clig", "kern"; font-feature-settings:"calt", "liga", "clig", "kern"; text-rendering:optimizeLegibility; } http://blog.webink.com/opentype-features-css/
- 51. http://extens.is/webv Kerning body { -moz-font-feature-settings:"calt", "liga", "clig", "kern"; -moz-font-feature-settings:"calt=1, liga=1, clig=1, kern=1"; -ms-font-feature-settings:"calt", "liga", "clig", "kern"; -o-font-feature-settings:"calt", "liga", "clig", "kern"; -webkit-font-feature-settings:"calt", "liga", "clig", "kern"; font-feature-settings:"calt", "liga", "clig", "kern"; text-rendering:optimizeLegibility; } http://blog.webink.com/opentype-features-css/
- 53. http://extens.is/webv Use OpenType features in CSS body { -moz-font-feature-settings:"calt", "liga", "clig", "kern"; -moz-font-feature-settings:"calt=1, liga=1, clig=1, kern=1"; -ms-font-feature-settings:"calt", "liga", "clig", "kern"; -o-font-feature-settings:"calt", "liga", "clig", "kern"; -webkit-font-feature-settings:"calt", "liga", "clig", "kern"; font-feature-settings:"calt", "liga", "clig", "kern"; text-rendering:optimizeLegibility; } http://blog.webink.com/opentype-features-css/
- 54. http://extens.is/webv More OpenType feature codes • Oldstyle figures: onum • Proportional figures: pnum • Small caps from caps: s2sc • Small caps from lowercase: smcp • Discretionary/historical ligs: dlig, hlig • Stylistic Sets: #2, #14: ss02, ss14
- 55. http://extens.is/webv Contact, Resources, Q&A Jim Kidwell, Extensis www.extensis.com @jimkidwell Slides & More Resources: http://www.extensis.com/web-fonts/webvisions