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Properly choosing and setting up our font family’s weights and styles will make all the difference when displaying them on our site. Remember, faux is no way to go.
Further Reading
- Elements of Typographic Style, Robert Bringhurst
Resources
- Type Scale - Type scale builder
- Modular Scale - Another type scale builder
- Pix to Em
- Layout Grids in Figma
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we'll get into how to practically
achieve good typography on
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the web in the next few stages.
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In the previous stage,
we learnt how to choose fonts.
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In this session, we'll start with the
basics of a font family's, weights, and
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styles, like bold and italics.
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First, it'll be good to mention
here that faux bold and
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faux italic are faux pas,
which simply translates to don't do them.
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Faux bold or faux italic means it
is a false bold or fake metallic.
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