Typography

Going back into time: Influences of early 20th century graphic design

By Johan on April 22nd, 2006.

Hey that cool retro look: a proof concept

Let’s go rhetorical question mark on this … Webdesign and graphic design do share some common grounds (how blatantly obvious) when it boils down to grid design, laying out content, mixing it with photography and adding typographic elements, don’t they? But this way …

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Design Resources of the Moment

By Phil Renaud on April 6th, 2006.

The past few weeks have yielded some pretty nice design resources. Here’s a roundup:

Very Simple CSS Tricks:  some simple, and functional bits of markup to help make your project run more smoothly. I like the idea - much akin to Slim, which I love.

CSS Float Tutorial Roundup:  …

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The Secret Lives of Fonts

By Phil Renaud on March 12th, 2006.

I’m nearing the end of my sixth semester of university, and things are going pretty well: I’m clearing a decent grade point average, enjoying my major, and just having wrapped up my semester’s “essay alley”, wherein all my courses require a term paper or two, and getting my results back …

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Is readability a black and white issue?

By Andrew Whitacre on March 3rd, 2006.

You’re probably not a stranger to the real, physical pain of reading a lot of text online.

Between e-mails, blogs, news sources, and literary sites—let alone on-screen reading required for our jobs—we read a lot of long-form writing every day. And much of it is terribly designed when it comes to …

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Links that make you blink twice!

By Gavin on September 11th, 2005.

Out of all the elements that make up a site I’d have to say that I spend a far greater deal of time deciphering how to style my links, than any other element I use. I find it quite important to the overall impression of a site, links being the …

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