Typography

Typography

What is typography? A short intro, history, and how this relates to the thesis.

History

There are some histories. Actually, there's a whole lot of it.

Typographic form recommendations

Recommendations on how to structure and typeset text, both physical and digital has been produced. As this is field of research in and of itself, this paper will briefly summarize the fields thaat has been deemed most important for the study at hand.

The literature available are not always ... Some recommend a serif font for body text and a sans-serif font for headlines, some recommends the oposite.

The literature available is often old, giving recommendations on how to stylize content for screens of low resolutions (320x240) ...

Modern displays are orders of magnitude better , and with the tablet form factor,

Higher resolution,

Digital typography

Something I could write a bit about.

Ebook typography

Web typography

The web, being a relatively new digital medium,

Adhering to the old scroll based metaphors

CSS

To stylize and typeset web pages, the style sheet language CSS is

For a more thorough discussion on CSS see, the chapter on CSS.