This tutorial will teach you how to create a very appealing and slightly abstract text effect that looks like the text is made from plants and flowers; you really have to see it to know what I mean. We’ll be using a lot of floral brushes which look great and also learning a really useful technique for accurately hiding stuff behind other stuff. (more…)

This is a guide to typography website for people who are not professional typographers — namely, lawyers. I assume that your goal is pragmatic: to achieve the best typographic result at the minimum possible cost (= your time).

This website is organized as a set of typographic lessons. Rather than group these lessons into topics and subtopics, I’ve put them in linear order from the most basic to the most advanced. I recommend that you start at the beginning. Don’t move ahead to the more advanced lessons until you feel comfortable with the easier ones. (more…)

Typechart is an online experiment that lets you flip through, preview and compare web typography and then retrieve the corresponding CSS. (more…)

While many designers have been quick to embrace web standards, it’s surprising how often the basic standards of typography are neglected. Here are ten deadly sins to avoid in your web typography. (more…)