Posts tagged Typography
LOVE THIS!
(via Dynamo Blog)
Ligature
Typographic poster design by Tom Davie.
“Typographic education poster that displays a collection of Oldstyle serif ligatures (connected letterforms).”
Always Play Amongst Friends - Friends of Type
Designersgotoheaven.com - i love drawing by Raid71
Baseline CSS - A Designer Framework
Built with typographic standards in mind, Baseline makes it easy to develop a website with a pleasing grid and good typography. Baseline starts with several files to reset the browser’s default behavior, build a basic typographic layout — including style for HTML forms and new HTML 5 elements — and build a simple grid system.
I’ve used this CSS myself on a couple of projects. For quickly putting up nicely formatted content, this is a very nice framework.
FontFont Free Goodies
FontFont has a free section on their site with font downloads from designers including Erik Spiekermann and Neville Brody, plus a couple of free magazines to download.
Five Prints (2009) by Radim Peško, are printed as editions of 13 in phosphorescent ink. Word sequences are set in the typeface Boymans designed in 2003 as part of the identity developed by Mevis & Van Deursen for the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The typeface is loosely based on Lance Wyman’s multi-layered identity design for the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. In Wymans font, the repeated outlines of the individual characters referred to motifs in Mexican folk art, transformed and used for the Boijmans typeface they are a metaphor for the museums new wrap-around building and the curatorial structures expressed by this architecture. Designed by Peško in ten weights, each font consists of three versions: single, double and triple lines. When combined, layered or coloured the typeface generates endless variations.
(via split/fountain)
Typography is The Backbone of Good Design
As web designers surrounded by trends and other design/graphic elements, we often forget the main reason people visit websites — to read and find information (quickly and easily).
Take away all the extra design elements and all we are left with is the type. Unlike glassy reflections, wood grain textures, and shiny buttons, communication with type is timeless.
So why not pay more attention to the backbone of a good web site design? The next time you start designing your website start first and focus on the type — the strength of a design lies within the type.
Brian Hoff on the importance of typography in his designs.
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