Dimensions
220 x 243 x 23mm
Effective Typographic Design for the World Wide Web.
Part of the 'Design Directories' series.
Getting to grips with the technology of the web - HTML code, Java "applets" and so on - is a difficult enough task for the graphic designer, without the added burden of typographic restrictions: should type be displayed as pictures, which are slow to load, or as HTML text, which is creatively limiting? This book provides the ideal instruction manual for anyone faced with the frustrations of achieving their apparently simple goal: to make type look good and read well on the Internet.
'WWW.Type' concentrates on design issues; in contrast to the various technical manuals available, the focus here is on the look of type and its functional appropriateness. The opening section explores the different type possibilities for various kinds of web site, whether personal, informational, institutional, advertising or -perhaps hardest of all - hybrid sites that need to have more than one function. The latter part of the book is given over to a showcase of the top 300 sites for type design, each with a full examination of how its type works for both style and purpose, and how readers might apply the same rules to their type design for the Internet.
Contains 500 full colour illustrations, diagrams and examples.
