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Mastering Responsive Web Design

You're reading from   Mastering Responsive Web Design Push your HTML and CSS skills to the limit and build professional grade, responsive websites

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783550234
Length 334 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ricardo Zea Ricardo Zea
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Preface 1. Harness the Power of Sass for Responsive Web Design FREE CHAPTER 2. Marking Our Content with HTML5 3. Mobile-first or Desktop-first? 4. CSS Grids, CSS Frameworks, UI Kits, and Flexbox for RWD 5. Designing Small UIs Driven by Large Finger 6. Working with Images and Videos in Responsive Web Design 7. Meaningful Typography for Responsive Web Design 8. Responsive E-mails Index

Web fonts and how they affect RWD

Web fonts are almost mandatory to use nowadays, and I say almost because we need to be mindful of the implications they bring to our projects, and if necessary, we may actually not use them at all.

Before we get into the nitty gritty of how to work with web fonts, here are a few web font resources that may be helpful for many of you:

  • Font Squirrel (http://www.fontsquirrel.com/): I've used this service extensively with great success. To use the fonts, you need to download the file(s) and then use with @font-face in your CSS. They have the best web font generator tool you'll ever find (http://www.fontsquirrel.com/tools/webfont-generator)
  • Google Fonts (https://www.google.com/fonts): I can't talk about web font resources without mentioning Google Fonts. If I can't find it on Font Squirrel I come here, and vice versa. You can either download the font file(s) or use JavaScript. The fonts used in the following examples were downloaded from Google...
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