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I got tired of looking at the black, white, and system blue, so I decided to ruin everything by putting some color and initial graphical treatment into play. So, here you have about 50% of the “visual design” in play: layout, most of the type treatment (some refinement to come), colors picked, etc. More work […]
Phase 2 of my boneheaded idea to rebuild my site live is “complete”. This phase was about layout rough-in and beginnings of typography. The horizontal lines are for reference only, they will (probably) go away. Here’s a cheat sheet I put together for the various widths, sizes, etc for my “responsive” site design. It probably […]
The October 2009 Usability News Newsletter has a great article highlighting a recent typography study on Web font faces. Know Your Typefaces! Semantic Differential Presentation of 40 Onscreen Typefaces > This article presents results from a study investigating the personality of typefaces. Participants were asked to rate 40 typefaces (from serif, sans serif, display, and […]
In addition to all the GTD links, there were some excellent Web design links. Here are some of the best (IMO) Getting Creative with Web transparency – rounds up some good cross-browser PNG transparency techniques 60 More AJAX and JavaScript Solutions for Professional Coding – I’m becoming a jQuery or custom-only guy, but there are […]
I suck at typography. This is very helpful: 80 Beautiful Typefaces For Professional Design from Smashing Magazine.
Free Fonts at SMeltery. (hat tip Natalie Jost
Well, before we’re a month removed from the conference, I thought I better sum up my thoughts on the matter. SXSW is all about networking, professional networking that is (not TCP-IP, Ethernet stuff…). The sessions were “okay” as some pointed out, though I think the reason for that was not so much the mediocrity of […]
Slides, notes, and links from the Web Typography Sucks panel at SXSWi to go along with the podcast. w00t!
The best session I went to at SXSW: Oh Yeeaahh!
Mark Boulton has a good article on whitespace as it applies to composition and typography at A List Apart.
Recommended font resources for web designers by Webdesign From Scratch.
Cameron Moll’s list of typefaces no one gets fired for using. And Daniel Mall’s alternative typefaces you should get fired for using.