Letterpress styled text seems to be quite a popular typographic trend and I’ve been positively struck by the way it’s displayed on Tyler Thompson’s blog because I think in this case it really helps users with reading negative text.
Tyler, creative director at Squarespace, simply applies the css3 text-shadow property, that’s been available in Safari since the first [...]
Typies is the English version of Letritas (that’s Spanish for little letters), an interesting blog about types and design by gifted graphic and obviously type designer Juan Pablo De Gregorio.
I suppose that Juan’s involved in many projects since last post on Typies is dated June 19. So I was quite surprised this morning, when checking [...]
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 concern of Jez [...]
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 can [...]
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.
Most important: [...]
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 hotness [...]
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).
