From the course: Design Aesthetics for the Web
Schalten Sie den kompletten Kurs noch heute frei
Join today to access over 23,400 courses taught by industry experts.
Communicating with the right fonts
From the course: Design Aesthetics for the Web
Communicating with the right fonts
- [Narrator] The eighth element of design is Type. Selecting the right fonts in the right sizes and colors for your web projects can help improve readability, as well as communicate information more effectively to site visitors. For our purposes, we'll use the term "Type" to refer to the fonts you choose for displaying text in your designs and how you actually use them. Choosing the right fonts can communicate the right mood to the target audience and often designers will use fonts from the same typeface along with one or two contrasting fonts to keep a design cohesive. Typefaces, then, are a set of fonts in a given font family such as Arial Regular, Arial Bold, Arial Italic, and Arial Bold Italic. To begin our discussion about fonts on the web, you should know a few basics about type in general. Here's an example of all of the parts of a typeface, taken from a free Typography wallpaper graphic. As you can see, fonts have a lot of different parts to them and understanding these parts…
Practice while you learn with exercise files
Download the files the instructor uses to teach the course. Follow along and learn by watching, listening and practicing.
Inhalt
-
-
-
-
Understanding the elements of design1m 47s
-
(Locked)
Using color to set the site’s mood5m 50s
-
(Locked)
Tweaking color value to add contrast3m 30s
-
Using texture to add depth4m 53s
-
(Locked)
Repeating shapes to unify your design2m 43s
-
(Locked)
Structuring your layout with form3m 50s
-
(Locked)
Using space to organize your design4m 38s
-
(Locked)
Setting boundaries with lines4m 35s
-
(Locked)
Communicating with the right fonts3m 57s
-
(Locked)
Challenge: Working with color48s
-
(Locked)
Solution: Working with color1m 17s
-
-
-
-
-