Website Typography

Experimental Jetset recently launched a new website with a ton of amazing new work. One of the projects that stands out for me is the identity work they did for the Whitney Museum of American Art in NYC.

There’s a plethora of new HTML5 form input types (13 new ones to be exact) that make creating engaging and easy-to-use web forms much easier for web designers.

Ahhhhhh…! That wonderful aha moment when we see the spark in our students’ eyes—when they realize that typography reaches far beyond the font list under the type menu on the computer. The tricky part is getting to that aha moment!

With the constant evolution and popularity of mobile devices, designing web sites responsively is essential.

A bright slab serif by Typofonderie, a massive system from Typonine, a text face with flavour and a hardworking family from Rosseta Type, a casual face by HVD Fonts, an expansive family from Lost Type Co-op, a type designer’s typeface by Emigre, a...

In 2013 to mark the bicentenary of Bodoni’s death, designers Riccardo Olocco and Jonathan Pierini will publish the Parmigiano Typographic System which has the ambition of being the most extended family of fonts ever to have been inspired by the...

Birthed in May 2010 in an article by Ethan Marcotte published on A List Apart called “Responsive Web Design“, this device-independent design philosophy has spread like wild fire amongst the design and development community.

There are loads of free scripts to download and include in your website projects. Developers are constantly releasing their work under open source General Public Licenses.

Last August we published our original post on responsive navigation solutions, and even after only six months that post seems out-dated and almost reduntant.

It’s that time of year again, time for our “Best of…” series, where we look back over the past year and pick our favorite freebies and resources.

Data visualization makes numbers and statistics easier to comprehend. The key to effective data visualization is presenting data in an intriguing and visually appetizing way.

Visual balance is the key aspect of web design and if it is not done properly, it creates tension for the viewer who looks at the page.

Reading poorly written text, or text that is not displayed in pleasing format, can prove to be quite a hassle for the average reader.

When browsing popular sites (like Facebook, Twitter, Google…), I am sure that most designers at one time or another have allowed their creative minds to run wild and have imagined redesigning them.
Maybe just a tweak here and a tweak there.

Tablet usage is exploding. One study estimates that “90 million americans will use a tablet device in 2014″[1].

Creating a responsive web design goes way beyond arranging things in a way that won’t compromise the look of your website in different screen sizes.

Elegant, sophisticated, and classy are a few adjectives that come to mind when I think of serif fonts. Serif fonts, which have origins as far back as 700 BC, are timeless.

  

Do you own a website? Do you want to be number one on Google? Whatever you do, don’t spend money on search engine optimization (SEO). I know that sounds like an extreme position to take.

In computer science, the term “adaptive system” refers to a process in which an interactive system adapts its behavior to individual users based on information acquired about its user(s), the context of use and its environment.