This book will help you take advantage of using fonts in the best and most artistic way.

You will learn how to build your own fonts using a free web font generator as well as look at embedding web hosted fonts and rendering fonts for really old versions of Windows. It will take you through a number of clear, practical recipes that will guide you through embedding fonts and will also take advantage of the new HTML5 and CSS techniques to generate splendid effects. Instant HTML5 Fonts and Typography details the use of fonts in HTML5, and breaks down the confusion surrounding which file format to use to ensure cross-browser compatibility. These precise recipes will help you create your fonts, generate your cross-browser compatible font formats, help you to use and import fonts in different methods, and finally generate a beautiful image or Flash-like products. Instant HTML5 Fonts and Typography is a practical, hands-on, recipe-based guide that provides you with a number of clear, step-by-step exercises.

Custom fonts further enhance the look of websites, making them truly attractive. With the progression of web technologies, especially HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript libraries, typography is now an art and this can enhance your products and make them more valuable. That was until they started to pay special attention to fonts and typography. The first web developers and designers took quite some time to adopt an artistic angle while designing web pages. Use some Open Source JavaScript libraries to create some cool effects on fonts.Learn advanced CSS3 techniques (transitions, torsions, animations, and so on).

Sans serif fonts: These are fonts without serif lines at the end of their letters. Examples include Times New Roman, Georgia and Bodoni. Serif fonts are considered classical and elegant, and are mostly associated with print.

Choose alternatives for older Windows rendering engines via Cufón (JS and vector graphics) Serif fonts: A serif is a small line at the end of a stroke in a letter or symbol.

Explore and use Google fonts and its JS library, Webfont loader, for other web font host inclusion in addition to safe usage during loading time.

Embed custom and web safe fonts within your web page.

Understand the difference between font formats and how to use them.

Create a font and generate cross-browser compatibility formats.

The CSS declaration is the standard approach for referencing custom fonts on the web: /* Define a custom web font else if( ua.indexOf( 'Android 4.' ) > -1 & ua.indexOf( 'like Gecko' ) > -1 & ua. Luckily, we’ve figured out some methods to apply them carefully to ensure your site correctly balances usability, performance and style. However, when you use custom fonts on the web using standard techniques, they can slow down page load speed and hamper performance-both real and perceived. Using to load custom web fonts is a great feature to give our sites a unique and memorable aesthetic. You can find it here: Font Loading Revisited with Font Events Note: There’s an update to this article that recommends a slightly better approach.

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