New Course: Introduction to Web Typography

New Course: Introduction to Web Typography

on Jan 19th 2012 with 4 comments

Web typography is accessible to everyone. If you’ve ever built or designed a web page, you’ve almost definitely turned your hand to web typography of some sort. As a discipline, typography has been practiced for hundreds of years, and as a result there are many lessons and conventions we can learn from.

Saying that, web typography is a bit like skiing. It’s unwise to just grab a couple of wooden planks and throw yourself down a black piste; you’ll develop bad habits and perhaps even break a bone. Before diving into your next web project, make sure you’ve at least considered the fundamentals.

I can’t help you with skiing, but I can help you with web typography. If you’ve never looked properly into the subject, or even if you need a refresher, Introduction to Web Typography is for you!

Free Preview Lessons

Overview

As with all Tuts+ Premium courses, we’ll start at the beginning, working through the basics and some terminology, before moving on to the practicalities. During the process we’ll build ourselves a demo web page which will highlight the theory we cover. Even if you’re not yet confident with HTML and CSS, each video comes with source files stepping off from where the previous video ended.

Take a look at the episodes listed below and be sure to check out the preview videos even if you don’t yet have a Premium subscription.

Lesson Overview
This course comprises 11 helpful videos.

As with all Tuts+ Premium courses, each lesson has an accompanying forum where you can discuss ideas and questions which arise as you watch the videos.

Course Forum
Get involved with the forum, where you can discuss each lesson.

Tuts+ Premium

The recently re-launched Tuts+ Premium is a service that provides top-tier training in a variety of creative fields. Whether you prefer books, visual training, or in depth tutorials, we have you covered. While we unfortunately can’t afford to provide the service for free, it’s only $19 a month – less than you’d spend on dinner.

I hope you’ll consider checking it out! In addition to learning a huge variety of new skills, it’s also a fantastic way to say thank you to Nettuts+.

 
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  • http://www.topmma-fighters.com Dave

    Y U NO MORE TEXT TUTORIAL ???

  • http://lxwebsolutions.com/ Lxwebsolutions

    nice thought to start this course for the newbies in the industry it would be very useful for them : Recommended

  • Hamid

    it’s good and a perfect tuts from Ian Yates, i recommending that for everyone whos new on Typography, and it’s really good if tutsplus team changing their system on the article when some1 posting a new comment about an article or a post so everyone can getting notice about that.

    Best Regard
    Hamid.

  • Hamid

    btw Ian it’s a really good code for griding by using The Heads-Up Grid in your series, but i really recommending you to looking on GridFox 2.0 firefox addons (by Eric Puidokas), he changed somethings about this addons like background transpareny column width and more.

    This is one of the best addons for ppl who want to building a website by a grid system.

    take a look on the offcial link:
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/gridfox/?src=ss

    cya in the next screencast Ian.

    Regard
    Hamid.