Posts Tagged ‘Typography’
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Why Subtle Typographic Choices Make All The Difference
- June 5th, 2012
- 12 Comments
A strong understanding of how designers control meaning is essential for anyone interested in graphic design or typography. In a previous article, we discussed how sophisticated and complex visual and verbal language can get, examining instances that show how type can be used to effectively take control of meaning. In this article, we’ll ...
Read more...How To Choose The Right Face For A Beautiful Body
- May 21st, 2012
- 15 Comments
What is it that makes a typeface into a text font, instead of a font for larger sizes? The answer differs slightly, depending on whether one aims for print or Web-based environments. Nevertheless, there are certain features that most good text faces have in common. Familiarity with these helps to select ...
Read more...Fonts Face-OffsFont Wars: A Story On Rivalry Between Type Foundries
- May 14th, 2012
- 9 Comments
I had thought of terms like “intellectual property” or “intellectual theft” as being of fairly recent provenance, so my eye was caught by the latter’s use in a headline of a 1930 edition of the American trade journal The American Printer. The article it fronted proved to be equally intriguing, a ...
Read more...Applying Macrotypography For A More Readable Web Page
- May 2nd, 2012
- 25 Comments
Any application of typography can be divided into two arenas: micro and macro. Understanding the difference between the two is especially useful when crafting a reading experience, because it allows the designer to know when to focus on legibility and when to focus on readability. This article focuses mostly on a ...
Read more...A Closer Look At Font Rendering
- April 24th, 2012
- 48 Comments
The Web font revolution that started around two years ago has brought up a topic that many of us had merrily ignored for many years: font rendering. The newfound freedom Web fonts are giving us brings along new challenges. Choosing and using a font is not merely a stylistic issue, and ...
Read more...When Typography Speaks Louder Than Words
- April 13th, 2012
- 31 Comments
Clever graphic designers love to use typography to explore the interaction between the look of type and what type actually says. In communicating a message, a balance has to be achieved between the visual and the verbal aspects of a design. Sometimes, however, designers explore the visual aspect of type to ...
Read more...Drop Caps: Historical Use And Current Best Practices With CSS
- April 3rd, 2012
- 24 Comments
The practice of using a large letter to mark the start of a text has been around for almost two thousand years. Illustrated caps increased usability by marking important passages and guiding readers through the text. Unlike their historic counterparts, drop caps on the Web don’t add value in terms ...
Read more...Weird And Wonderful, Yet Still Illegible
- March 21st, 2012
- 16 Comments
It has been said that “we read best what we read most”. This quote was used as a type specimen in Emigre magazine in the late 1980′s by Zuzana Licko. It was written in defense of her typefaces, whose elemental shapes—designed with the strictures of the early HP laser printer ...
Read more...Respect Thy Typography
- March 14th, 2012
- 22 Comments
Good typography shouldn’t have to rely on ornamental crutches to stand tall. Yet despite all the tools and knowledge available to us, we readily embrace a flourishing, decorative typography, with cheap tricks used in a misguided attempt to make it “pop”. This ancient art may rapidly be gaining popularity, but ...
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