We’re definitely happy when our brave colleagues dare to use non-standard fonts on their websites. In fact, compared to graphic designers, our lives are gloomy and sad, having to deal with a so narrow typographic range and we all rejoice when, instead of feeling deprived and miserable, some of us has the guts to break [...]
While I was surfing, I’ve been positively struck by the way “We are the fiction” website re-creates the book’s cover. One small step backwards. We Are The Friction is a book of illustration and short fiction created by 12 pairs of international writers and illustrators. It’s the second book edited, designed and published by Sing Statistics, the collaborative [...]
Had I time, I’d sure join Letter Playground, a typographic inspirational community where users are dared to find out new ways to draw glyphs. According to web site stats, the letter people are currently playing the most with is A: if you want to know why or simply keep up-to-date with this lively community you [...]
Daily Drop Cap is an interesting project by typographer and illustrator Jessica Hische. Each day Jessica is going to post a beautiful graphical drop cap to embellish your paragraphs, dear bloggers! Jessica’s glyphs are very delicately traced and richly embroidered with smooth vectorial curves: it seems to me they’re inspired by some fancy old-fashioned fairy tale book. [...]
Area17 web site, an interactive agency that takes its name after the cerebral cortex area, where images are processed, is entirely based on typographic variations.
The bio recap of Hawaiian designer Michael Whalen is a simple listing in Arial, where hovering color changes from line to line: hovering over a link (text in dark gray) turns it into a button.
Oursignal is one of my favorite websites ever: according to an algorithm developed by Stateless Systems, the top most viewed pages in digg, reddit, del.icio.us, hackernews and yahoo buzz are presented as one page grid . The size of each box is proportional to the relative number of votes while background colours represent the degree of [...]
I think it’s an interesting typographical choice (is this typeFutura Condensed?) using a progressive numbering to explain one’s portfolio: in this case the author’s Piotr Godek, the one-man band behind the web agency Odd Web Things.
Impeccable typography in Monocle, a magazine about politics, business, culture and design, conceived by the founder of Wallpaper, Tyler Brûlé. Obviously the use of typographical weights winks to print design with a classy result.
A font very characterised and used consistently gives soul and identity to this funny English blog.
Heading in Snog web site, a brand of frozen yogurt made in UK. are entertaining. They’re highlighted by an “abnormal” typography, as if they were road signages. (But who knows … maybe they really are)
Using oriented vertically texts in web. sites leaves me puzzled I think this treatment should be reserved either in situations where the overall dimensions make it absolutely necessary or for short texts (e.g. often you see the Feedback button oriented vertically).
Rustin Jessen uses for the lettering of his blog dedicated to typography Adobe Caslon: does it still makes sense speaking of web fonts, web safe typefaces or systems fonts?
Huge chose the way of an absolute minimalism to present itself to the market: a typographical heading gives character to pages otherwise devoid of any visual treatment.
I like blogs with a very rigid grid layout and extreme use of typography. Even when the colors are so sharp.
An absolutely typographic approach, based on an abundant use of Caslon for this blog with a retro style and a title full of good intentions.
