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152 The Principles of Beautiful Web Design For these reasons, a series of special codes or entities has been created; we type these into our HTML documents to produce correct punctuation marks and just about any special character that we could need. The examples in Table 4.1 are just a sample of the many HTML character codes that exist. The code on the far left is known as an entity name or keyword. For instance, to produce a copyright symbol in your document, enter © directly into your HTML, and you’ll see a © in the rendered page. Each of these entities also has a numerical equivalent; for © it’s #169, so © will produce the same symbol. For a more complete list of codes and their alternative entity numbers, check out W3Schools HTML entities page. 29 Table 4.1. Sample list of HTML character entity references Entity Character Description < > & ‘ ’ “ ” « » ® ™ © ¢ £ ¥ ¼ ½ ¾ < > & ‘ ’ “ ” « » ® © ¢ £ ¥ ¼ ½ ¾ Less than Greater than Ampersand Left single quote Right single quote Left double quote Right double quote Left angle quote Right angle quote Registered trademark Trademark Copyright Cent Pound Yen One-quarter One-half Three-quarters Application: The Fine Print Type is an important part of the Knoxville Reflexology Group logo. The typeface needed to be strong and have a bold presence, while being clean and friendly. The type uses a combination of Frutiger LT 45 Light and Frutiger LT 65 Bold. This combination of thick and thin typefaces gives a strong sense of contrast, but as both typefaces are from the same family, it helps to unify the logo. 29 http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_entities.asp
Typography 153 Figure 4.32. KRG typography in the logo For the headlines and body copy throughout the KRG site, is was important to chose a quality web font that was sans serif to maximize legibility, and to have a few different weights. Source Sans Pro Bold was used for the headlines and Source Sans Pro Light was selected for the body text. This is mainly because KRG wanted to maintain a modern, sleek look. The body text needed to have an open, inviting feel, so the line height was increased for legibility and to lighten the mood of the site. The home page needed to draw the visitor in with the latest news, while offering other content to explore. It also needed to be informative, covering different procedures and providing price information. Certain elements, such as prices, could be made to stand out using special CSS classes dedicated just for those purposes. Headlines needed to be clean and bold, with contrasting supportive text. Figure 4.33. Source Sans Pro font used on body copy The fonts themselves were implemented using @font-face, and the fonts are hosted at the site to provide maximum consistency. As you can see in Figure 4.34 below, the text has plenty of room to breathe. The menu has plenty of contrast, the news slider has a bold headline that gets your attention while making it easy to read. The text shadow in the callout box below the slider has a text shadow applied to it with CSS, which adds a slight variation to the rest of the layout.
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