Archive for October, 2008

I often fall into the trap where I limit the scope of my design capabilities by what techniques I have learned for my design tools (in this case photoshop, and illustrator.) You may not realize it, (and I often do not either) but the techniques that you don’t know actually hinder your overall design capabilities. [...]

Better design by brushing up on your techniques

I came across an interesting tool called Typeface.js today. It appears to be a worth while addition to the sIFR / Facelift “Web Typography Arsenal.” Much like Facelift and sIFR it is javascript based and replaces the plain XHTML text with an embeded custom typeface replacement. In this case it uses the <canvas> element and [...]

Another contender in the sIFR / Facelift Typography Arsenal

I am often frustrated with how little attention is put into the messaging on most websites. It seems that you run into two scenarios when faced with web copy. The first is that the website owner has the writing done internally and then edited professionally, and the second is that their is a professional advertising/marketing [...]

Effective Web Copy

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Typography has come a long way on the web, but we are still stuck with a fairly limited amount of control over our type and how we use it. Even after exploring fonts that you could use but probably don’t, and learning some advanced css typography techniques, we are left with maybe a handful of [...]

All the Tools You Need for Rich Web Typography