Top "Typography" questions

Typography — in digital development — includes the creation, formatting, organization, arrangement, rendering, legibility, and readability of visual type on a device.

Algorithm to implement a word cloud like Wordle

Context Take a look at Wordle: http://www.wordle.net/ It's much better looking than any other word cloud generators …

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H1-H6 font sizes in HTML

In HTML (and in typography in general, I suppose), there appears to be some defined sizes for H1-H6 -elements. …

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How do I style HTML5 canvas text to be bold and/or italic?

I'm printing text to a canvas in a pretty straight forward way: var ctx = canvas.getContext('2d'); ctx.font = "10…

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Should I avoid using "text-align: justify;"?

Is there any reason to avoid using text-align: justify;? Does it reduce readability or cause problems?

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How to properly set line height for Android?

I am a UX architect working with a team of Android developers that are mostly junior. We are having issues …

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'Segoe UI' font with font-face & local

I want to use the "Segoe UI" font in a website if it is installed in the user's computer. I …

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Font size in pixels

On an iPhone how do I calculate the size of a character in pixels for a given point size?

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How to combine bold and italic in CSS?

This W3Schools tutorial taught me how to use the CSS font-style property to make text bold (equivalent to <…

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What is the proper HTML entity for the "x" in a dimension?

Is the proper HTML entity for giving dimensions &times;? I want to be semantically correct, but that begs the …

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Is Garamond really a web safe font?

Is Garamond really web safe? Should I go ahead and use it? I know its not there in XP(Georgia …

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