Learn Web Typography

Explore the wonderful world of web typography! Learn how to choose fonts, create hierarchy, and craft beautiful, readable text for your UI designs.

All Web Typography tutorials:

  1. CodePen Challenge #6: Decorative Drop Caps

    CodePen Challenge #6: Decorative Drop Caps

    Tutorial Beginner

    Time for another CodePen Challenge! We want you to take a plain-looking paragraph and apply a decorative drop cap to the initial letter–the best examples...

  2. Better CSS Drop Caps With “initial-letter”

    Better CSS Drop Caps With “initial-letter”

    Tutorial Beginner

    Drop caps are a form of decoration sometimes used at the beginning of a block of text; the initial letter running several lines deep and indenting the body...

  3. Finding the Mobile Typography Sweet Spot

    Finding the Mobile Typography Sweet Spot

    Tutorial Beginner

    Let’s get serious about mobile typography; we all know that mobile is massive, and we can also agree that typography is super important within a design....

  4. Comprehensive Guide: When to Use Em vs. Rem

    Comprehensive Guide: When to Use Em vs. Rem

    Tutorial Intermediate

    You may have come to terms with using flexible units of measurement, but you still might not fully understand when to use rems and when to use ems. This...

  5. Web Design for Kids: Typography

    Web Design for Kids: Typography

    Tutorial Beginner

    Welcome to the ninth lesson of our Web Design for Kids series, all about Typography. In this tutorial we will look at what typography is all about and why...

  6. Web Design for Kids: Design Basics

    Web Design for Kids: Design Basics

    Tutorial Beginner

    Welcome to the eighth lesson of our Web Design for Kids series, design basics! Throughout this series we have focused on bringing a design to life, but we...

  7. The Pros and Cons of Icon Fonts

    The Pros and Cons of Icon Fonts

    Tutorial Beginner

    In this short video tutorial from my recent icon fonts course, I'll briefly explain what icon fonts are and how they work, and then I'll go through the pros...

  8. CodePen Challenge #3: Results!

    CodePen Challenge #3: Results!

    Tutorial Beginner

    Last week we asked you to take part in our third CodePen Challenge: to select your favorite Google font pairs and apply them to some sample content. Over 50...

  9. CodePen Challenge #3: Favorite Google Font Pairs

    CodePen Challenge #3: Favorite Google Font Pairs

    Tutorial Beginner

    Another month, another CodePen Challenge! Last time we asked you to style a signup form and a whopping 68 of you took part. This time we want to see which...

  10. The Lazy Person’s Guide to Responsive Typography

    The Lazy Person’s Guide to Responsive Typography

    Tutorial Beginner

    Typography is arguably the most important part of any website’s design. A huge header on a blank white page might look like a minimalist’s dream come true,...

  11. Designing a Web App UI Kit‏ in Adobe Photoshop

    Designing a Web App UI Kit‏ in Adobe Photoshop

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Style guide driven development offers a hugely flexible approach to modern web design. In this tutorial I'll walk you through designing a UI (user interface)...

  12. How to Use Web Fonts With Adobe Muse

    How to Use Web Fonts With Adobe Muse

    Tutorial Beginner

    In this tutorial I will show you how to use web fonts in your Adobe Muse projects. We'll cover font options offered within the web font catalogue, including...