Typography for the web
For years designing websites, I often wonder what type face or type size are most suitable for readers. Right now most of the design I did, I tried to keep it simple and flexible. Therefore I play safe with only working with system fonts.
Often print designer did not understand the differences between print and web typography. Typography in web needs a consistency of sizes so that people can connect to the content. Often as web designer, part of our job was to create a “style guide”. It’s a guide that states the font usage and sizing for headers, titles, body text, captions..etc.
In corporate design, we can’t really be ‘too’ creative with the font choices. Instead, we try to make the content to be more legible for reading, we also have to make sure the content flows so users won’t miss out any important content that we want to send across.
I just came across this awesome article from Smashing Magazine, it did a bunch of survey of average font sizes an choices for all web typography practices.
Take a look at Typographic Design Patterns and Best Practices.
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