Reading the useful guide published on of my favorites blogs, I love typography, I think it missed some tips. So here is my chance to give the topic a stab.
I don’t know if I can stress this enough. There are plenty of guides out there from which one can learn the benefits and the how-to’s. It improves readability and it makes you look cool, what more can you ask?
This has been discussed before, but this is also really important. Between 45 and 75 characters per line is preferred. I know we are getting in the fixed vs. fluid layout debate, but I dare you to read Wikipedia with a maximized window in more 1400 px wide resolution. Maybe that is why we don’t use our browser maximized.
On the web is hard to get justified text right, and only few succeeded. I would suggest avoiding it until our tools get better. If you have time on your hands you may try to implement the advanced css proprieties like hyphenate — more details here.
I didn’t come up with these, and actually there are better resources on the web, but I constantly find websites with great potential that fall shortly when it comes to typography.
p.s. Obviously I don’t agree with the light text on dark background tip, but I’ll leave it to another time.
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