Web Design is 95% Typography

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Post by raghunayyar » Wed, Sep 19, 2012, 8:32 AM UTC

Web Design is 95% Typography
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Re: Web Design is 95% Typography

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Post by digitalengineer » Wed, Sep 19, 2012, 9:05 AM UTC

Web design is 95% typography and 100% content. I can't tell you how many times we have to design without knowing the actual CONTENT or text and we're forced to dropping Lorum Ipsum (fake text) in the designs. Not knowing the text stops us from knowing the USER, the target audience, and the entire REASON for the website. Actually knowing the subject, content and text makes the difference between 'nice' and 'functional'.

Re: Web Design is 95% Typography

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Post by pacomerh » Wed, Sep 19, 2012, 9:10 AM UTC

2006?, nice. So yeah these days typography is big on web design, but also obviously relative to the kind of site your building. Regarding Khoi Vinh’s Web Site, I like this page in particular http://www.subtraction.com/archives#column-b

Re: Web Design is 95% Typography

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Post by lhnz » Wed, Sep 19, 2012, 9:18 AM UTC

Very interesting way of thinking.

Typography as an interface to the content you wish others to consume.

Re: Web Design is 95% Typography

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Post by richforrester » Wed, Sep 19, 2012, 9:38 AM UTC

digitalengineer wrote: post #2

Web design is 95% typography and 100% content. I can't tell you how many times we have to design without knowing the actual CONTENT or text and we're forced to dropping Lorum Ipsum (fake text) in the designs. Not knowing the text stops us from knowing the USER, the target audience, and the entire REASON for the website. Actually knowing the subject, content and text makes the difference between 'nice' and 'functional…

I agree to such an extend that I signed up for an account to up-vote this.

Re: Web Design is 95% Typography

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Post by Danski » Wed, Sep 19, 2012, 9:42 AM UTC

95% of the information on the web is written language. How would one measure/estimate this?

Re: Web Design is 95% Typography

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Post by Adrock » Wed, Sep 19, 2012, 9:43 AM UTC

Comically, here's how this is rendering for me using Chromium on Ubuntu:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/1overBlog/screenshots/treat-text-as...

Re: Web Design is 95% Typography

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Post by hiphopopotamus » Wed, Sep 19, 2012, 9:53 AM UTC

Web design is not 95% typography...

Re: Web Design is 95% Typography

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Post by sp8 » Wed, Sep 19, 2012, 9:53 AM UTC

digitalengineer wrote: post #2

Web design is 95% typography and 100% content. I can't tell you how many times we have to design without knowing the actual CONTENT or text and we're forced to dropping Lorum Ipsum (fake text) in the designs. Not knowing the text stops us from knowing the USER, the target audience, and the entire REASON for the website. Actually knowing the subject, content and text makes the difference between 'nice' and 'functional…

I thoroughly agree. Its astonishing the number of times I've had projects stumble, sometimes collapse, at the "writing the content" stage. And only ONCE have I had someone hand me (nearly) complete copy before I started designing.

Re: Web Design is 95% Typography

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Post by digitalengineer » Wed, Sep 19, 2012, 9:54 AM UTC

richforrester wrote: post #5

digitalengineer wrote: post #2

Web design is 95% typography and 100% content. I can't tell you how many times we have to design without knowing the actual CONTENT or text and we're forced to dropping Lorum Ipsum (fake text) in the designs. Not knowing the text stops us from knowing the USER, the target audience, and the entire REASON for the website. Actually knowing the subject, content and text makes the difference between 'nice' and 'functional…

I agree to such an extend that I signed up for an account to up-vote this.

Damn! ;-) Welcome aboard.