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Typedia 

Learn all about fonts and typography on a beautiful, well-designed site: typedia.com

They are using Georgia and Lucida Grande — my two favourite web fonts, and the color scheme is clear and appropriate.

The site also has excellent content, providing the history of the fonts.

design, development, every day  |  ,   |  August 24th, 2009

Jessica Hische 

Sweet Typography

Sweet Typography

Wow, I am so torn. Her typography is beautiful, inspiring and almost makes the poor usability of her site worth it.

Dec 7 09 Update : She has a new site up, better and more web friendly than ever!

design  |  , ,   |  May 28th, 2009

Websites Dedicated to Font and Typography 

Yep.

design  |  ,   |  May 22nd, 2009

Development/Design Aids1 Comment »

There are so many useful things for developing… here are some of my favourites:

  • Notepad++  is awesome, what would we do without syntax highlighting?
  • Firebug for Firefox is part of me now, I feel handicapped with out it.
  • CakePHP, haven’t learned it to well yet, but my co-workers love it.
  • jQuery, the magic wand of javascript.
  • Better Font Stacks, a great article about… well, font stacks.
  • w3schools, a goto, the bible of code

And design aids:

  • Typechart, great previews of what is capable with web fonts.
  • ColorSchemer is full of pretty and useful schemes and great palette software.
  • A List Apart kind of applies to both categories, heaps of good articles

development  |  ,   |  March 25th, 2009

Bad Things on Websites 

Here are some things that drive me kind of crazy on websites:

  • When the hover state of a text link changes the font weight, it looks bad and can mess with the layout
  • When body copy is composed of images of text. It is just plain bad. Spiders can’t read it, site readers can read it, it is tedious to update. I am a font junky as much as the next person but is having everything in Mrs.Eaves instead of Georgia that horrible?
  • Three column layouts almost never look good.
  • Having to still design some sites at 770px wide, if someone doesn’t have a better graphics card/monitor, too bad for them. Same for hacking sites for IE6. *Angrily shakes fist at IE*
  • All the coding support forums that have excellent content but ugly layouts.
  • Flash sites with excessive loading times and non-intuitive UI.

That is all… for now.

development  |    |  January 22nd, 2009

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