What makes a font legible? How do you choose fonts that work together? How do you create rhythm and tension in a typographic layout? In Typographic Web Design, expert typographer Laura Franz answers all your questions about choosing and using fonts for the web.

Each chapter provides time-tested typography rules, modified for the web. Franz explains why these rules work, tells you when to break them, and offers you the opportunity to test the rules with hands-on exercises in HTML and CSS. You'll learn how to:

• Choose the right fonts for your design concept
• Organize information
• Create a system of hierarchy
• Work with tabular information
• Create a grid for your design
• Apply a typographic system across multiple pages
• Build a web font library