About Dave on Design
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About Dave on Design
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#2I agree typography could be a lot better on the web, in general.
I wonder if the author has thought about their use of bullet lists containing paragraphs and article headings. I think both the main page and linked article would look much better without them.
If it’s a paragraph or heading it doesn’t belong in a list, IMO
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#3One of the stated goals was "Be light" and yet the author managed to make a 1.2Mb page for what is just text.
Another one is "Beautiful typography" and yet there's a justified text without hyphens that creates some atrocious spacing.
This site has incredibly good intentions and plenty of room for improvements.
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#4> … forces use of ‘house style’ by adding dipthongs in words like ‘encyclopædia’
Nitpick: firstly, it’s spelled ‘diphthong’. Secondly, ⟨æ⟩ is a ligature, not a diphthong (at least in English). Diphthongs are sounds made up of a smooth transition from one vowel to another, so I can see what caused this mistake… but it’s a little jarring to see the term misused in an essay about typographical conventions.
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#5The site claims to be using https://fonts.google.com/specimen/EB+Garamond but something has gone wrong with the italics (at least on my screen), they are just an oblique version of the roman version of the font, whereas the Google Fonts page has a much nicer actually italic version (e.g. compare the lowercase h on the Google Fonts page above vs the linked page).
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#6Why is it every time I visit a blog which focuses on UX design, there's always an article which talks about Windows 95 dialog is superior than modern dialogs.
Not everything needs to be black and white and uniform.
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#7> … forces use of ‘house style’ by adding dipthongs in words like ‘encyclopædia’ Nitpick: firstly, it’s spelled ‘diphthong’. Secondly, ⟨æ⟩ is a ligature, not a diphthong (at least in English). Diphthongs are sounds made up of a smooth transition from one vowel to another, so I can see what caused this mistake… but it’s a little jarring to see the term misused in an essay about typographical conventions.
In typography the term diphthong also. Means the character itself - "a digraph representing the sound of a diphthong or single vowel". I can't speak to the possible typo in the word itself, but I believe it might be a old spelling of the same word.
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#8Saw this and laughed. While not entirely the same, I made a website with similar goals earlier this year. I am another Dave, another designer.
There's a funny part about being a web designer and then having to build your own site. You sort of want to drop all the bullshit, and just focus on typography and spacing. No color, no tricks, just simple stuff. It can be surprisingly hard.
I went with Astro, which I think is much better for this kind of thing, and let me write very, very simple HTML + CSS with only a small bit of JS.
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#9The way paragraphs and lists are wrapped around big letters doesn’t look like beautiful typography to me: https://imgur.com/Yc7pkss unless it is trolling and I can’t comprehend tongue-in-cheek humour there. Well, anyway...
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#10The way paragraphs and lists are wrapped around big letters doesn’t look like beautiful typography to me: https://imgur.com/Yc7pkss unless it is trolling and I can’t comprehend tongue-in-cheek humour there. Well, anyway...
I can't speak to the OP's particular use of them, but initial capitals are a long standing typographical feature: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial – CSS even has a ::first-letter pseudo element to help style them.