Typography!
Typography can often be overlooked in a websites design. In some cases it can make the design, so it is definitely an essential factor to consider the font, size and colour for your design.
Cast your mind back 15 years when it was impressive to see blocks of Times New Roman text load in a bright blue box. How things have changed, that old fluorescent information no longer has the same buzz it once did. And why should it? We are spoiled with visual delights including textures, fades, images, videos and more! However none of this means much without text - and it has also seen a visual resurgence! Over the last year or so pretty typographics have become a big trend amongst the net. We have CSS3 to thank for this with text-shadow, column, blur, transition, transform (etc. etc.) elements.
The problem that web designers face is that there isn't a lot of history with typography in web design. There are endless amounts of books and resources for print designers but when you compare print to the web, we are only toddlers! I have not been trained in typography unlike a graphic designer would have, yet there is a huge need for it in webdesign. Thankfully, as we know, the internet is a wonderful place where people are constantly experimenting and producing new resources and inspiration for us!
Some striking examples of typography:
Ditch your standard Arial/Verdana headers and customise them with font-face kits available from sites such as http://www.fontsquirrel.com/ . Bench and Cocosa are two examples where we have used custom font-face kits:
http://www.hays.co.uk/jobs/cocosa/
http://www.hays.co.uk/jobs/bench/
Check out these useful sites to help you get started with pretty typographics!
http://typekit.com/
http://ilovetypography.com/
http://www.typetester.org/
http://typographica.org/
Also please view and take very seriously http://bancomicsans.com/main/
Cast your mind back 15 years when it was impressive to see blocks of Times New Roman text load in a bright blue box. How things have changed, that old fluorescent information no longer has the same buzz it once did. And why should it? We are spoiled with visual delights including textures, fades, images, videos and more! However none of this means much without text - and it has also seen a visual resurgence! Over the last year or so pretty typographics have become a big trend amongst the net. We have CSS3 to thank for this with text-shadow, column, blur, transition, transform (etc. etc.) elements.
The problem that web designers face is that there isn't a lot of history with typography in web design. There are endless amounts of books and resources for print designers but when you compare print to the web, we are only toddlers! I have not been trained in typography unlike a graphic designer would have, yet there is a huge need for it in webdesign. Thankfully, as we know, the internet is a wonderful place where people are constantly experimenting and producing new resources and inspiration for us!
Some striking examples of typography:
Ditch your standard Arial/Verdana headers and customise them with font-face kits available from sites such as http://www.fontsquirrel.com/ . Bench and Cocosa are two examples where we have used custom font-face kits:
http://www.hays.co.uk/jobs/cocosa/
http://www.hays.co.uk/jobs/bench/
Check out these useful sites to help you get started with pretty typographics!
http://typekit.com/
http://ilovetypography.com/
http://www.typetester.org/
http://typographica.org/
Also please view and take very seriously http://bancomicsans.com/main/
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