Typography on the Web

... Is really, really hard, as HTML has only limited features for controlling typography.

The current tricks are to use:

• background images
• tables to control layout on page
• inline images for fancy text lettering, layout
• lots of trial and error.

It is a lot of hard work. And there is no way around it.

Next-Generation Typography

• Stylesheets -- a new typography language, for formatting Web pages.
• Should be available later this year, on Netscape 4 / Internet Explorer 4.
• (I coincidentally am just finishing a book on this subject..... ;-)