Jon Tan: The Paragraph in Web Typography & Design
Jon has a nice piece on the paragraph and how to appropriately use it on the web. It's an important topic and one I spend a decent amount of time on in my usual typography talk when I speak at events. Far too often, people think typography is all about picking typefaces; Jon effectively explains some of the more nuanced details in this article.
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A wonderfully informative and useful look at paragraphs styles ...in history and in CSS. |
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Essay on typographic styles for paragraphs |
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Typographers use layout techniques like single line boundaries, indents, outdents and versals (drop caps etc.) to punctuate paragraphs in a stream of discourse. Block paragraphs are common to the Web, indented paragraphs are commo... |
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Great article on steps to have great paragraph form and choosing the right typeface for web. |
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June 15, 2008 |
Paragraphs are punctuation, the punctuation of ideas. After selecting a typeface, choosing the right paragraph style is one of the cornerstones of good typography. This is a brief inquiry into paragraph style for the Web. |
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