Web designers should get good training in typography (2006)
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Re: Web designers should get good training in typography (2006)
#2Can anyone recommend a good course in typography?
Re: Web designers should get good training in typography (2006)
#3I admire all the work the typographers do to make amazing-looking websites, and yet I prefer to read sites (like mathpages, or Dan Luu's site) which have next to no styling. They're just easier for me to read. I'm definitely not hating, but I feel like it's good to keep in mind where the point of diminishing returns is.
Re: Web designers should get good training in typography (2006)
#4(2006)
In case you, like me, miss the dateline at the top and become more and more puzzled by the arguments and examples presented.
I will credit the article for using examples that are still visually appealing today, even (especially?) the 2004 blog.
Re: Web designers should get good training in typography (2006)
#5Can anyone recommend a good course in typography?
One option is Matthew Butterick's "Practical Typography": https://practicaltypography.com/
Re: Web designers should get good training in typography (2006)
#6I admire all the work the typographers do to make amazing-looking websites, and yet I prefer to read sites (like mathpages, or Dan Luu's site) which have next to no styling. They're just easier for me to read. I'm definitely not hating, but I feel like it's good to keep in mind where the point of diminishing returns is.
Same. Not every webpage needs to look like stripe’s homepage.
Re: Web designers should get good training in typography (2006)
#7Not anymore, maybe back when static sites were common. Web sites now are applications with lots of interactivity. The interactive design is often lost because designers are mostly designing for static layouts, with interactivity falling lower in priority. This then becomes a bad experience with developers having to constantly fix interactivity issues that were born from lack of design and product specs.
Re: Web designers should get good training in typography (2006)
#8(2006) An article about the importance of typography uses massive, unreadable font at 25px.
Re: Web designers should get good training in typography (2006)
#9It is a bit ironic that the website has white text on black background which is no-no on screens as the very high contrast creates ghosting and eye strain / hurt for many people. Carefully read the text, then look at anywhere else and you'll see ghost lines everywhere for a few minutes. So the text should at least be gray-ish to decrease the contrast if you want to go that way. This works pretty well on paper, but sucks on screen.
Whenever I see such content, I send them this link which demonstrates the issue in a fun way: https://www.ironicsans.com/owmyeyes/
Re: Web designers should get good training in typography (2006)
#10I have trouble caring about what someone says about typography when they've chosen abnormally excessive letterspacing which makes reading awkward and effortful.