Exercises: day 8

Text and typography

Exercise 1

Discuss within your groups which characteristics that you would expect along with what you would find interesting in a font used for:

• The opening credits of a science fiction movie
• Your Curriculum Vitae
• The body text of a newspaper article (printed)
• A wedding invitation
• The body text of a web page about a college course (does your expectations match this course page?)
• The list of ingredients on a chocolate bar

Exercise 2

Implement the use of fonts in your css stylesheet from yesterday. (If you didn't have a lot of text, then you should also write some text so you can see the effect of adding the font to the stylesheet.)