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Quick guide to web typography for developers


80/20 guide on how to make your blog posts look pretty, for free.

It might come handy for people who are already good with typography but didn't work with web closely and want to quickly learn CSS equivalents of familiar concepts. But as a good starting point, I like to use typographic scale, it helps calculate the font size for different elements based on a fixed ratio. This is usually not an issue on mobile devices, but for folks with wide monitors, reading your site might be a really miserable experience if you don't limit line width.

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