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In laying out a web design, I often try to make sure that my typography is proportional and consistent. However, I haven't been able to find any definitive articles or resources on what ratios and sizes should be used. Specifically, what are the recommended or standard practices for:
Please consider both paragraph and header text in your answers. Also, any studies on the effectiveness of various ratios or metrics would be very useful. |
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Robert Bringhurst's Elements of Typographic Style is a through and wonderful reference for things like this. It's long but very valuable. http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Typographic-Style-Robert-Bringhurst/dp/0881792063/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1294176315&sr=8-1 A lot of designers recommend a standard grid of lines so that a line+padding will always fit within, say, 16 pixels. So anything less than that would have a line height of 16, everything above that would have line height 32. The ideal length of a line for reading text is held to be 45 characters by some and 55-75 by other sources. There is some common averages of websites here: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/08/20/typographic-design-survey-best-practices-from-the-best-blogs/ |
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