Link: Technical Web Typography: Guidelines and Techniques

Written by Harry Roberts on CSS Wizardry.

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An article I wrote for Smashing Magazine has just gone live. It’s all about technical, micro-typography and how it can be used to great effect on the web. It won’t teach you how to be a better designer, but it should show you how to best set type on the web.

It’s a pretty epic offering but I assure you, it’s worth it.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/[…]/technical-web-typography-guidelines-and-techniques/

Enjoy!

It is worth noting that Wordpress’ editor has stripped some of the semantic and (ironically) typographical niceties from the post. I have a semantically rich original copy knocking about that I drafted the article up in (in HTML)

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By Harry Roberts

Harry Roberts is an independent consultant web performance engineer. He helps companies of all shapes and sizes find and fix site speed issues.