Submitted by tdodson on September 12, 2014 - 2:47pm
Today I'm sharing a great tool for exploring typography on the web. Fontface Ninja is a plugin for the Chrome and Safari browsers that allows you to identify the font face and styling of any text on a page.
Submitted by tdodson on May 21, 2013 - 11:32am
When you take away the images and other media, most of what determines the look and feel of a website is typography. In 2009, Smashing Magazine conducted a survey of text-heavy sites (like newspapers and magazines) and provided a guide to the common typographic practices in web design at that time.
Submitted by tdodson on July 26, 2012 - 12:44pm
Web and application designers need icons, and most of the time we need more or less the same ones---icons representing users, icons for navigation and interactions, social media icons, etc. Several projects have been bundling these icons into pictographic fonts (sort of a Zapf Dingbats for icons).
Submitted by tdodson on February 25, 2012 - 1:56pm
lt's easy to recognize the artistry in a good book cover, but book interiors require at least as much attention. In this case study, I explain my process for the interior design for an anthology of the best fiction and poetry published in New England.
Submitted by tdodson on February 25, 2012 - 11:14am
If you've spent any time designing text for print or the web, you're probably familiar with "Lorem Ipsum." For the uninitiated, Lorem Ipsum refers to a passage of latin text from the Roman philosopher Cicero. For hundreds of years, type designers have used this passage as place-holder text in their designs.
Submitted by tdodson on January 18, 2012 - 4:24pm
Today I'm sharing two great tools for identifying fonts in images or websites: What the Font? and Fount.
Submitted by tdodson on January 14, 2012 - 1:55pm
Free fonts are often free for a reason. Frequently they're missing essential elements like true italics, small caps, old-style numbers, and the like. Sometimes they're just poorly executed knock-offs of some other foundry's typeface.
