Part 2: Making the typography responsive and laying foundations for more to come
The feedback I’ve received over the past week has been amazing, and matches my own excitement about this project. I’ve spent a lot of time researching, writing, and teaching about creating better typography for reading on digital devices over the years. This is the chance to put it all together and focus on the whole reading experience beyond just the typesetting.
I also tracked down and bought my own copy of that Rockwell Kent edition on eBay and picked up what might be the most perfect domain name for the project I could imagine.
Let’s be honest: what top level domain could possibly be better for Moby-Dick than… wait for it… ‘.wales’ (all due respect to Mark and Emma Boulton and everyone else who actually live there). So from here on out you can read the book at it’s new home mobydick.wales.
This installment covers a lot of ground, so let’s start with a recap of the overall goals and the basics we put in place last week.
What we aim to accomplish
Great typography on the web should be designed in layers. The web is an imperfect medium, consumed by countless different devices over untold numbers of network connections — each with their own capabilities, limitations, and peculiarities. To…
