Webfont handbook

There's more to choosing a webfont than aesthetics—rendering, language support, hosting, and licensing are equally crucial to communicating your message. Think of webfonts as progressive enhancement, and learn how to harness CSS and browser features to improve performance. From selection to optimization, Bram Stein's primer shows you how webfonts can make the web a more visually diverse, efficient, and readable environment. Webfonts make the web a more diverse, visually pleasing, and readable environment. In 2016, around 60% of the top thousand sites monitored by Alexa used webfonts. And they can be used for all text on a site - not just body text, but also headlines, tables, and captions. Great, right? Throughout this book, you'll see me use words like character, typeface, style, font, glyph, family, foundry, script, subsetting, and rendering. These terms come from the world of print typography, and they've retained their usefulness when discussing webfonts Cover Foreword Introduction Chapter 1. Selecting Webfonts Chapter 2. Using Webfonts Chapter 3. Optimizing Performance Chapter 4. Looking Ahead Conclusion Resources Acknowledgements References Index About A Book Apart About the Author