Web Directions Summit 2017

Session Details

Richard Rutter

13 Golden Rules of Typography on the Web

Richard Rutter Production Director ClearLeft

Typography is what comes between the author and the reader. This is as true on the web as it is in any other medium. If a text has anything at all significant to say, it needs a typographer’s care, which will in turn be repaid by the reader’s attention. If you design websites or use CSS then you are a typographer whether you know it or not.

This talk will give you will give a set of guidelines that deftly combine implement­ation details with typographic theory and set you on the road to designing beautiful and effective responsive typography.

Richard Rutter

Richard Rutter is a founding partner of Clearleft, a digital design consultancy and studio based in Brighton, UK. Richard is an accomplished technical author and has spoken around the world about web typography and user experience design.

In 2009, Richard co-founded the web font service Fontdeck as a way to unite web designers and type designers in introducing rich typography to the web. Richard recently crowd-funded and self-published his book, Web Typography.

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