Typography

In a professional context it often happens that private or corporate clients corder a publication to be made and presented with the actual content still not being ready.

Think of a news blog that’s filled with content hourly on the day of going live. However, reviewers tend to be distracted by comprehensible content, say, a random text copied from a newspaper or the internet. The are likely to focus on the text, disregarding the layout and its elements. Church-key tousled forage cliche quinoa Truffaut.

Not awesome but still pretty darn important.

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There’s very few legitimate reasons to go below h3.

Below h3? Why bother?? Selvage brunch keffiyeh mumblecore normcore, cornhole direct trade Banksy dreamcatcher chillwave crucifix wayfarers Austin. Vinyl put a bird on it normcore narwhal Thundercats. Disrupt mlkshk viral fanny pack, photo booth cred pork belly polaroid stumptown keytar fashion axe Intelligentsia tousled Truffaut.

Really, this doesn’t seem very important does it?

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I’ve given up at this point.

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Nothing to see here.

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Phrase elements

When I speak to people I don’t know, I frequently place a strong, and often random, emphasis on certain words to creep them out.

If they are old enough to have have used dial-up modems I use b tags or, almost certainly random, i tags instead. That’s how I roll.

Quotes

This is a paragraph with an “awesome inline quote using q tags”, the of type which I’d all but forgotten about. Does anyone use those?

I found myself writing a selection of wacky type, usually within a CMS editor in my case, in order to visualise the typographic styles I was setting in a live environment. That shit gets boring eventually, so I decided to do this thing instead.

And for the really fancy stuff:

Sometimes, I go nuts and to put paragraph tags inside the blockquotes!

Because sometimes you need more than one paragraph inside a blockquote. Not often mind.

And, as long as it’s something I’m willing to admit to, I’ll go as far as citing the quote with cite tags, thusly:

I frequently surprise myself with the ease at which I can type random shit!

I said that, right here.

Full sentence

Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Vestibulum tortor quam, feugiat vitae, ultricies eget, tempor sit amet, ante. Donec eu libero sit amet quam egestas semper. Aenean ultricies mi vitae est. Mauris placerat eleifend leo. Quisque sit amet est et sapien ullamcorper pharetra. Vestibulum erat wisi, condimentum sed, commodo vitae, ornare sit amet, wisi. Aenean fermentum, elit eget tincidunt condimentum, eros ipsum rutrum orci, sagittis tempus lacus enim ac dui. Donec non enim in turpis pulvinar facilisis. Ut felis.

Text-level semantics

The a element example
The abbr element and abbr element with title examples
The b element example
The cite element example
The code element example
The del element example
The dfn element and dfn element with title examples
The em element example
The i element example
The img element example
The ins element example
The kbd element example
The mark element example
The q element inside a q element example
The s element example
The samp element example
The small element example
The span element example
The strong element example
The sub element example
The sup element example
The var element example
The u element example

Blockquote

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Vivamus magna. Cras in mi at felis aliquet congue. Ut a est eget ligula molestie gravida. Curabitur massa. Donec eleifend, libero at sagittis mollis, tellus est malesuada tellus, at luctus turpis elit sit amet quam. Vivamus pretium ornare est.

Mr. Awesome

pre

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aenean commodo ligula eget dolor. Aenean massa. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et me.
    
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<div class="main"> <div>
</body>
</html>

Ordered List

  1. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.
  2. Aliquam tincidunt mauris eu risus.
  3. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. This bullet tests content going onto two lines

Un-ordered list

  • Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.
  • Aliquam tincidunt mauris eu risus.
  • Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. This bullet tests content going onto two lines

Definition List

Definition Title
Consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco.
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
Consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris commodo consequat.

Nested Lists

  • Morbi in sem quis dui placerat ornare. Pellentesque odio nisi, euismod in, pharetra a, ultricies in, diam. Sed arcu. Cras consequat.
  • Praesent dapibus, neque id cursus faucibus, tortor neque egestas augue, eu vulputate magna eros eu erat. Aliquam erat volutpat. Nam dui mi, tincidunt quis, accumsan porttitor, facilisis luctus, metus.
    • Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.
    • Aliquam tincidunt mauris eu risus:
      1. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.
      2. Aliquam tincidunt mauris eu risus.
      3. Vestibulum auctor dapibus neque.
    • Vestibulum auctor dapibus neque.
  • Phasellus ultrices nulla quis nibh. Quisque a lectus. Donec consectetuer ligula vulputate sem tristique cursus. Nam nulla quam, gravida non, commodo a, sodales sit amet, nisi.
  • Pellentesque fermentum dolor. Aliquam quam lectus, facilisis auctor, ultrices ut, elementum vulputate, nunc.