Great Web Typography

by Wendy Peck and Molly Joss

* Demystifies Web typography by revealing the secrets of professional developers * Shows how to find, select and implement Web typography that will give any site a slick, professional look *... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764537008
• ISBN13: 9780764537004
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Web Typography

I received the book promptly. It was in perfect condition and I'm very glad that I bought it because it gives great tips on how to improve the looks of your web fonts. Great book.

Real help for real designers

I'm was pleasantly surprised when I picked this up at the library. I was looking through book and book of dry critiques of like, the 15 typefaces in the Franklin Gothic family, and what century Bembo was introduced. Or there were the ones that used La Bamba and every other overused trendy font that deserve a place on a TGIFriday's menu or a skate-punker's home page on MySpace, and provided flash with no theory whatsoever But the best surprise is that this book covers things like color theory, contrast, readability (ask any marketing department about that one!) and issues that are critical in good design. So few books, even ones that claim to teach page design, give the universal, real world applicable tips that are found in this little gem. A reviewer below stated that this is a book for beginners. Well, yes, but there are plenty of "advanced" designers who don't know the first thing about practical form AND function design. Just look at every other site online and you'll see that just because you can use Quark, the basics of Photoshop and a web design program doesn't mean you know how to design. It's like one of my favorite lines; "You can teach a monkey to read. You just can't teach him to understand." I love this book so much I'm actually going to buy it. And that says a lot, being a starving artist and all.

More than expected...

I bought this book to learn more about the graphical/visual side of web page layout. Such as: - "Which font types and sizes are best?" - "How do I best divide up whitespace?" - "How should my headline fonts differ in size and shape from my content text?" - "What color combinations should I use?" This book answered those questions and many, many more! Wendy Peck presents sound methods of typography, page balance, proper use of colors, proper use of graphical text and overall layout in an easy-to-understand way. I was seeing great results on my current project after reading just the first section of this book. Her design ideas can really help your web sites cross the line from "good" to "professional". Another surprise in the book is her advocacy of using CSS for content styling. Her in-depth section on CSS styling of links and menus is awesome. As a "one-person-web-design-freelancer", that needs to know how to do it all, this book is a great addition to my library. I highly recommend it.

More than I expected

Defintely one of the best web design books I've read in a while. My strengths lie in the coding side of web design, so I purchased this book to learn more about typography- as you would expect from the title. I am happy to say that I learned much, much more. You'll find lots of great typography, graphics, and page layout tips. Also, the author conducts some excellent interviews with other professional designers which lead to even more useful tips. Bottom line- a great value, and a must-buy for the beginning to intermidiate web developer.

Better than I could have ever imagined

When I bought this book, I was hoping for a great reference book to teach me a bit about picking good web fonts. I thought maybe it could give me some ideas for the sites that I'm working on. This book has done much more than that. Many times when I'm working on a site, something just doesn't "feel" right. The only way that I've been able to fix that has been by redoing the entire site until it does "feel" right. I didn't understand what was going on. Peck has taught me, by using countless real-life examples and full-color screenshots from other professional sites, what was wrong. My wife tells me every day how much better my pages have started to look. Her words: "Your stuff looked good before, but now it looks professional." Buy this book; read this book; do what this book says.