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date: 2011-03-14 15:52:30
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title: 'Link: Technical Web Typography: Guidelines and Techniques'
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- Typography
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- Article
- Smashing Magazine
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An article I wrote for Smashing Magazine has [just gone live](http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/03/14/technical-web-typography-guidelines-and-techniques/). It's all about technical, micro-typography and how it can be used to great effect on the web. It won't teach you how to be a better designer, but it should show you how to best set type on the web.

It's a pretty epic offering but I assure you, it's worth it.

[http://www.smashingmagazine.com/[...]/technical-web-typography-guidelines-and-techniques/](http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/03/14/technical-web-typography-guidelines-and-techniques/)

Enjoy!

It is worth noting that Wordpress' editor has stripped some of the semantic and (ironically) typographical niceties from the post. I have a semantically rich original copy knocking about that I drafted the article up in (in HTML)