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5Nov/091

10 Web based typography inspirations

As discussed in our last article, there are many ways to get interesting type onto your web designs (or more specifically onto your web developments). This article will provide a little inspiration in the form of a showcase highlighting some great uses of type on the web - including my own portfolio site! I'm not going to be going into details or explaining the complexities of how type can aid in persuasive design and usability; I think I'll save that for another day.

Oh, I'll also be including some links to other lists of great uses of typography ... just to fill the gaps.

Tagged as: content, design, fonts, inspiration, showcase, text, type, typography, web, webdesign Continue reading
5Nov/090

Typography in web design and development

So you've just started a new design and it's already filling up fast with text content; but have you considered all your font options?

You pretty much have 3 options.  Use web safe fonts; i.e. fonts that are likely to exist on all/most computers.  If you're using a non-standard font then you could always export it as an image; or lastly but not least you could use one of the javascript/flash embedding techniques which are becoming rather popular.

Tagged as: cufon, design, embed, flash, fonts, graphic, safe, sifr, standard, swf, type, typography, web, webdesign Continue reading
   

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'PrettyUsable' is a blog focused on designing user friendly, persuasive and aesthetic web content. As this blog is dedicated to the design end of web production you won't find a lot of scripting banter; but if you look closely you'll see some squeezed in here and there.

PrettyUsable is run and edited by Nathan Hornby, a London based UX Design professional, and contributed to by other professionals of the web design industry.

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