summary of a post of LukeW’s on lukew.com
- Use style guides, pattern libraries, and general styles so all type gets styled
- Do a heading audit of your entire site so everyone know’s what the options are
- Web fonts do still have some cross-browser issues and will require testing time and budget
- Use audience analytics to see what devices your customers are using–and test your fonts across all the top devices
- Show type designs in HTML pages in browser, not in PDFs
- Consider using webkit-font-smoothing:antialiased for light text on top of dark colors
- Test in your least-favorite browser
- Monitor font-face performance times, esp on mobile
- Use as few different weights of a font family as possible, shoot for between 160-400k
- A handy chart to see what fonts are available on mobile is here
- Typekit allows you to remove support on mobile devices which cuts down file size a lot
- Use icon fonts when possible. Make sure the ones you choose are being actively updated
- Line lengths should be capped at 45-75 characters
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