Posts tagged “typography”

  1. Paragraphs part II

    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. Online newspaper layout: 10 years and 10 steps back

    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.

  3. Text is text is text is text

    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).

  4. Watching the sky

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

  5. Paragraphs on the web: a typographical guide

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

  6. Supersize your site – big text sizes

    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.

  7. Times for print, Georgia for screen

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