Typographers get a bad rap. No one (except other typographers) understand them. Typography in the print world has precedent and history to back it up, with everything from the Chicago Manual of Style and Robert Bringhurst’s formative treatise The Elements of Typographic Style. But the established typographic rules can get muddled up with html coding and browser defaults on the web and end up looking less sophisticated.
Granted, most people don’t know the difference between a dash, en dash, and em dash. But a designer should, and should not let browser defaults take care of the details of type design.
The panelists provided a few websites that are a good resource for designers who work with type on the web:
posted by Bryan Keplesky
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