Every website out there has text on it. And a lot of design depends on how we select the text styles. 1
This is called typography. Typography isn't just choosing the right font. 2
It's about choosing the combination of those fonts. The different styles: like skinny, and bold, and regular, 3
and weight. Choosing right typefaces and fonts for the right occasions and right context. Typography 4
can make a website look great and with outstanding readability, or he can make it childish-looking, or 5
maybe out of context, or look confusing and very hard to read. 6
You can easily have a website that is typography only and still make it look good and design, without 7
any graphic elements. 8
As a matter of fact, the world's most popular website is primarily just text. 9
If text is this important in design, then there must be some rules and guidelines, on how to choose and 10
use them, right? 11
You bet there are. And you will learn all about them in next few lessons. Just following these simple guidelines, 12
will make your designs look great. 13
You will hear me use the terms Typeface, Type and Font interchangeably. Type is short for Typeface. And 14
the difference between typeface and font is this: 15
In this case, Helvetica is a typeface family that has many different font styles in it, like Light, Bold 16
and so on. 17
Does it matter which term we use? 18
Not really. 19
But it's still good to know the difference and not get confused. 20
I remember I was confused in the beginning, because everybody was using whatever they wanted. And you 21
had Fonts, and Types, and Typefaces. And I was like, am I using the correct thing for my designs?