Showing posts with label combination. Show all posts
Showing posts with label combination. Show all posts

Monday, 8 November 2010

Font combinations test #2

As promised the example below is a good way to test out which web safe font combinations are going to work. You simply need to comment out the fonts you don't want to use from the font-family tags in the CSS. In the case of the headers, you should also consider changing the font-weight to bold. Once you are happy. You need to think about colours. I get my colour combinations from the excellent http://colorschemedesigner.com.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Font Combination #2</title>
<style>
body
{
/* font-size:62.5%; */
font-size:80%;
}
h1, h2, h3, h4
{
font-family:'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;
font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;
font-family: Georgia, Serif;
font-family:‘Lucida Console’, Monaco, monospace;
font-family:'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-weight:normal;   
}
h1, h2
{
text-transform:uppercase;
}
h1
{
font-size:5em;   
}
h2
{
font-size:4em;   
}
h3
{
font-size:3em;   
}
h4
{
font-size:2em;   
}
p, blockquote, strong, ul, ol, input, small, span
{
font-family:Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;
font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;
font-family:Century Gothic, sans-serif;
font-family:'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;
font-family:'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;
font-family:'Arial Narrow', sans-serif;
font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
font-family:Copperplate / Copperplate Gothic Light, sans-serif;
font-family:Gill Sans / Gill Sans MT, sans-serif;
font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-family:‘Lucida Console’, Monaco, monospace;
font-family:'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-style:normal;
font-variant:normal;
font-weight:normal;
letter-spacing:0.1em;
}
blockquote
{
text-indent:-0.8em;
font-size:1.5em; 
p
font-size:1.25em;
margin-top:1.25em;
margin-bottom:1.25em;   
input
font-size:1.0em; 
small
font-size:0.75em; 
}
span
{
font-style:italic;
}
strong
{
font-variant:small-caps;
}
p.justified
{
text-align:justify;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Heading 1</h1>
<h2>Heading 2</h2>
<h3>Heading 3</h3>
<h4>Heading 4</h4>
<p>Paragraph. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Vestibulum tortor quam, feugiat vitae, ultricies eget, tempor sit amet, ante. Donec eu libero sit amet quam egestas semper. Aenean ultricies mi vitae est. Mauris placerat eleifend leo. Quisque sit amet est et sapien ullamcorper pharetra. Vestibulum erat wisi, condimentum sed, commodo vitae, ornare sit amet, wisi. Aenean fermentum, elit eget tincidunt condimentum, eros ipsum rutrum orci, sagittis tempus lacus enim ac dui. Donec non enim in turpis pulvinar facilisis. Ut felis. Praesent dapibus, neque id cursus faucibus, tortor neque egestas augue, eu vulputate magna eros eu erat. Aliquam erat volutpat. Nam dui mi, tincidunt quis, accumsan porttitor, facilisis luctus, metus</p>
<blockquote>Blockquote. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas.</blockquote>
<strong>Strong. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas.</strong>
<ul>
<li>Unordered list. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.</li>
<li>Aliquam tincidunt mauris eu risus.</li>
<li>Vestibulum auctor dapibus neque.</li>
</ul>
<ol>
<li>Ordered list. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.</li>
<li>Aliquam tincidunt mauris eu risus.</li>
<li>Vestibulum auctor dapibus neque.</li>
</ol>
<input type="text" name="name" id="name" value="input" tabindex="1" /><br />
<small>Small. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas.</small>
<span>Span. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas.</span>
<p class="justified">Paragraph justified. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Vestibulum tortor quam, feugiat vitae, ultricies eget, tempor sit amet, ante. Donec eu libero sit amet quam egestas semper. Aenean ultricies mi vitae est. Mauris placerat eleifend leo. Quisque sit amet est et sapien ullamcorper pharetra. Vestibulum erat wisi, condimentum sed, commodo vitae, ornare sit amet, wisi. Aenean fermentum, elit eget tincidunt condimentum, eros ipsum rutrum orci, sagittis tempus lacus enim ac dui. Donec non enim in turpis pulvinar facilisis. Ut felis. Praesent dapibus, neque id cursus faucibus, tortor neque egestas augue, eu vulputate magna eros eu erat. Aliquam erat volutpat. Nam dui mi, tincidunt quis, accumsan porttitor, facilisis luctus, metus</p>
</body>
</html>

Font combinations test #1

The example below is a good way to test out which web safe font combinations are going to work. You simply need to comment out the fonts you don't want to use from the font-family tags in the CSS. In the case of the headers, you should also consider changing the font-weight to bold. Once you are happy. You need to think about colours. I get my colour combinations from the excellent http://colorschemedesigner.com. I'm going to follow this blog up with a similar example, this time reversing the sans-serif and serif fonts.

See demo.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang=”en”>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Font Combination #1</title>
<style>
body
{
/* font-size:62.5%; */
font-size:80%;
}
h1, h2, h3, h4
{
font-family:Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;
font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;
font-family:Century Gothic, sans-serif;
font-family:'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;
font-family:'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;
font-family:'Arial Narrow', sans-serif;
font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
font-family:Copperplate / Copperplate Gothic Light, sans-serif;
font-family:Gill Sans / Gill Sans MT, sans-serif;
font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-family:‘Lucida Console’, Monaco, monospace;
font-family:'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-weight:normal;
}
h1, h2
{
text-transform:uppercase;
}
h1
{
font-size:5em;
}
h2
{
font-size:4em;
}
h3
{
font-size:3em;
}
h4
{
font-size:2em;
}
p, blockquote, strong, ul, ol, input, small, span
{
font-family:'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;
font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;
font-family: Georgia, Serif;
font-family:‘Lucida Console’, Monaco, monospace;
font-family:'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-style:normal;
font-variant:normal;
font-weight:normal;
letter-spacing:0.1em;
}
blockquote
{
text-indent:-0.8em;
font-size: 1.5em;
}
p
{
font-size:1.25em;
margin-top:1.25em;
margin-bottom:1.25em;
}
input
{
font-size:1.0em;
}
small
{
font-size:0.75em;
}
span
{
font-style:italic;
}
strong
{
font-variant:small-caps;
}
p.justified
{
text-align:justify;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Heading 1</h1>
<h2>Heading 2</h2>
<h3>Heading 3</h3>
<h4>Heading 4</h4>
<p>Paragraph. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Vestibulum tortor quam, feugiat vitae, ultricies eget, tempor sit amet, ante. Donec eu libero sit amet quam egestas semper. Aenean ultricies mi vitae est. Mauris placerat eleifend leo. Quisque sit amet est et sapien ullamcorper pharetra. Vestibulum erat wisi, condimentum sed, commodo vitae, ornare sit amet, wisi. Aenean fermentum, elit eget tincidunt condimentum, eros ipsum rutrum orci, sagittis tempus lacus enim ac dui. Donec non enim in turpis pulvinar facilisis. Ut felis. Praesent dapibus, neque id cursus faucibus, tortor neque egestas augue, eu vulputate magna eros eu erat. Aliquam erat volutpat. Nam dui mi, tincidunt quis, accumsan porttitor, facilisis luctus, metus</p>
<blockquote>Blockquote. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas.</blockquote>
<strong>Strong. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas.</strong>
<ul>
<li>Unordered list. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.</li>
<li>Aliquam tincidunt mauris eu risus.</li>
<li>Vestibulum auctor dapibus neque.</li>
</ul>
<ol>
<li>Ordered list. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.</li>
<li>Aliquam tincidunt mauris eu risus.</li>
<li>Vestibulum auctor dapibus neque.</li>
</ol>
<input type="text" name="name" id="name" value="input" tabindex="1" /><br />
<small>Small. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas.</small>
<span>Span. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas.</span>
<p class="justified">Paragraph justified. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Vestibulum tortor quam, feugiat vitae, ultricies eget, tempor sit amet, ante. Donec eu libero sit amet quam egestas semper. Aenean ultricies mi vitae est. Mauris placerat eleifend leo. Quisque sit amet est et sapien ullamcorper pharetra. Vestibulum erat wisi, condimentum sed, commodo vitae, ornare sit amet, wisi. Aenean fermentum, elit eget tincidunt condimentum, eros ipsum rutrum orci, sagittis tempus lacus enim ac dui. Donec non enim in turpis pulvinar facilisis. Ut felis. Praesent dapibus, neque id cursus faucibus, tortor neque egestas augue, eu vulputate magna eros eu erat. Aliquam erat volutpat. Nam dui mi, tincidunt quis, accumsan porttitor, facilisis luctus, metus</p>
</body>
</html>