Recently I found myself working on a project where I wanted to offer the user an simple way to tweet a custom image. Twitter makes it very easy to add a tweet button to your website, but how to include an embedded image isn’t immediately clear. Moreover, the standard blue tweet button just wasn’t going to cut it this time.
It took a couple of false starts and a lot of Googling, but I’m happy to report that it is possible to customize the look of your tweet-this link, and to embed an image. It requires a work-around, but it’s…
Chapter 2: Rhythm & Proportion
—Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style
Pop quiz: What CSS property do you use to set the color of a text block? If you said color you were … wrong! Don’t take it too hard, though. It was a trick question.
In typographic parlance, “color” refers to the optical density and texture of a block of text, and after legibility, the successful typesetter’s chief aim to achieve an evenness of color. The second chapter of Robert Bringhurst’s The Elements of Typographic Style is chock-full of specific guidelines you can easily apply. You’ll also learn the one thing that totally…
Chapter 1: The Grand Design
Even under its most expansive definition, the Internet can be traced back fewer than sixty years, and for most of that history, it was not known for an elegant reading experience. But around the time you were watching auto-tuned news clip memes and gathering your loved ones to watch the series finale of Lost, CSS3 and web fonts swooped in and totally changed the game.
When it comes to setting type on a page, we have centuries of collected wisdom to draw upon — and now we have the tools to apply it to digital media. In an exercise that…
