"Ugh. I'm on the verge of just giving up, surrendering defeat, selling
my computer, and just making hand-bound books, printed using ink and
moveable metal type."
It
sounds like this is something you have been dealing with for a while,
and as someone who works in web and print, and as someone who
studies/values fine typography, I can relate. But I think you(the
designer) should leave the micromanagement of typographic details to
physical media and just try and setup flexible hierarchy and
readability in your web designs, as it's (in my opinion) more like
software interface design than print design, even though all three
share common ancestry and principle. I think when you step into the web
world you must surrender the idea of typography being a fine art and
see it as a user interface that has some capability to be designed
artistically.
It's
just the nature of the beast, and just as when television was started
content was made in a radio format until the true benefits of the
platform could be leveraged, web design is still often being looked at
as an extension to print design until it's own conventions and
philosophies become more prevalent and accepted.
It's often
very frustrating working for print design studios needing websites for
their clients that think that they can manually rag their blocks of
text and have it translate to the web, or elegantly justify text... as
H&J control is out the window.
~ Joseph
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