The archive of beautiful illustrations of Spanish artist Alterebro is real clean and simple and CSS friendly (in effect I don’t think it would take more than a class to build it).
Mouse over links is fundamental to the reading when you deal with text with a poor contrast.
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Grids & Listings
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?
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Typography
I think Swiss Miss’ error page is really funny.
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Copywriting,
Error pages
When you invite someone to start a wizard, it’s always a good practice show how many steps are required for the enrollment, the strengths of your product /serivce or the benefits derived from an inscription.
The numbered list of Scrapblog is a good example of this; besides buttons have a pleasantly unconventional form.
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Buttons, Bullets & Badges
Using a mascot to characterize your website and so creating brand awareness is a current trend in web design.
The most important thing to keep in mind is using a custom designed mascot and avoiding stock images.
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Backgrounds
The logo on Jon Tan’s blog is made entirely with HTML code and CSS (no images).
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Logos,
Typography
Interesting these buttons / logo: they make a uniform list of a bunch of different graphic elements.
The effect on mouse over (e.g. Videoegg.com) is also light and pleasant.
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Buttons, Bullets & Badges
The most minimal way to represent a search form.
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Forms
Zen minimalism? Absolute cleanliness? Radical chic?
How to describe the interface of this study of Japanese Interaction Designers?
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Grids & Listings
I like blogs with a very rigid grid layout and extreme use of typography.
Even when the colors are so sharp.
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Grids & Listings,
Typography
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.
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Typography
The footer on Douglas Bowman’s blog, currently Creative Director in Twitter and, among other things, the former leader of Google Visual Design. Apart from being graphically impeccable, this is an excellent example of the increasing trend in using the bottom of the page to express something personal…in short, footers are no longer a simple layout [...]
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Footers
On the web scene is hard to be surprised any more.
Instead, Econsultancy blog pleasantly surprises us with a logo that, according to the scrolling the page, change color from negative (white text on red background) to positive (red text on white background).
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Logos