Better Web Typography for a Better Web

Better Web Typography for a Better Web is a book based on a top-rated online course explaining typography to people who build web sites—web designers and web developers. The author, Matej Latin, takes complex concepts such as vertical rhythm, modular scale and page composition, and explains them in an easy-to-understand way. The content of the book is accompanied by live code examples and the readers go through a process of designing and building an example website as they go through the book. This is a new typography book for a new medium, the rules haven’t changed much, everything else has.

Table of Contents

Part I: Macro Typography
Introduction to web typography
Anatomy of a typeface
Choosing typefaces
Equilateral triangle of a perfect paragraph
Combining typefaces
Rhythm in web typography
Modular scale and meaningful typography
Page composition
Responsive web typography

Part II: Micro Typography
Ligatures
Small caps and figures
Punctuation
Dropcaps

Conclusion
Appendix A: What’s next?
Appendix B: About the author