Responsive Web Design

A guide to responsive typography

Creating an efficient typography design system to adopt responsive web design.

Today due to the constant technological advancements there is an ever-increasing need of designers to provide the best possible digital experience for the users leveraging the innovative technologies. Over the years, I have worked on a variety of website design projects. The need for Responsive Web Design is at an all-time high since the users tend to use a variety of devices with different screen sizes to access the internet. This makes it very important for the website to be viewable on these devices with multi-screen sizes.

Responsive web design is a methodology to create websites that scales and adapts depending up the size of the screen and capabilities of the device on which the website is being viewed. For example. content and images scale to best fit the screen, navigation pattern changes according to the capabilities of the device. Therefore it is crucial for typography to adopt the responsive nature of the design to make the content legible and appealing on all devices.

Where content defines the intent and meaning of the copy the typography defines the emotions, presents the voice of the brand, and also helps to express the message…