In part one, 15 Excellent Examples of Web Typography, I
showcased 15 web sites that make excellent use of type. To avoid
this article being inordinately long, I’m going to focus on the
first site in the list, namely A List Apart. To take all 15
examples to pieces would be rather pointless, because most of
what’s good about them is shared. A List Apart The job of web
typography is not to simply mimic that of print. First, the web
is a different medium with different strengths and weaknesses.
Attempting to faithfully reproduce print typography is a rather
pointless exercise. The printed page is rigid; we have no
control over the size of the type and of the page; on-line the
user has more power, more influence; she can resize the page
(browser window), and even alter the default font size; add to
the mix, different browsers with different rendering
capabilities, differing resolutions and screen sizes, and we
soon realise that the web page and the printed page make
different demands. However, despite these differ