Posts tagged “typography”

1. Paragraphs part II — Leon, 16/08/09 (5)

   Limiting yourself to a rigid set of typographical criteria is a really bad idea. It’s worth exploring flexibility, variation and contrast in order to make your texts more readable and attractive.

2. Web pages, more fonts & what you need — Leon, 28/07/09 (6)

   Just how important is it that we’re able to embed any font we like in a web page?

3. Online newspaper layout: 10 years and 10 steps back — Leon, 28/06/09 (1)

   Do online newspapers provide a better reading experience than they did ten years ago? Yes and no, but the fear of not slapping as much content as possible on the page, the overuse of complex grids and advertising immaturity means there’s a lot of room for improvement.

4. Text is text is text is text — Leon, 13/06/09 (5)

   There’s nothing wrong with web pages that look boring and conventional. The role of web design is to make content comprehensible, readable and accessible (and any other -ible or -able you can think of).

5. Leading and measure: experimenting with different values — Leon, 07/04/09 (0)

   Test different leadings, measures, colours and fonts quickly and easily using 2 tiny HTML and CSS files.

6. Watching the sky — Leon, 24/01/09 (6)

   Just Watch the Sky provides some breathtaking inspiration for web typographers.

7. 2008: sites, highlights, lowlights — Leon, 31/12/08 (4)

   2008 was a year of minimalist design and a row over a designer’s portrayal of Obama as Lenin.

8. Readability and font sizes — Leon, 01/12/08 (10)

   What makes a readable screen font?

9. Paragraphs on the web: a typographical guide — Leon, 11/10/08 (3)

   The humble paragraph isn’t normally given much typographical attention, but this fundamental element of our writing needs to be treated with respect.

10. Grids: Great, but use with care — Leon, 01/10/08 (7)

    Using grids for page layout is a great idea. But put the content before the grid.

11. Pleasing textual effects (#1) — Leon, 15/06/08 (1)

    #1 in a series of ? . . . Florid textual effects without images.

12. Supersize your site – big text sizes — Leon, 18/05/08 (3)

    Since the dawn of time websites have been afraid of breaking one of web design’s great taboos: don’t make your body copy big. Until now.

13. Times for print, Georgia for screen — Leon, 05/05/08 (3)

    Despite its appearance on some recent websites, Times remains an ineffective choice for body copy. Use Georgia instead.