Notes from Howard's Sabbatical from Working. The name comes from a 1998 lunch conversation. Someone asked if everything man knew was on the web. I answered "no" and off the top of my head said "Fidel Castro's favorite color". About every 6-12 months I've searched for this. It doesn't show up in the first 50 Google results (this blog is finally first for that search), AskJeeves says it's: red.
Saturday, April 04, 2009
8 Simple Ways to Improve Typography In Your Designs
"Here are 8 simple ways you can use CSS to improve your typography and hence the overall usability of your designs."
This is a shockingly good set of guidelines. There's lots of "tips to improve your [web site|logo|photos|app] out there but this one is actually simple, practical and effective. It captures 80% of typography 101.
My only nitpick is that, in my experience, most people use blockquote for long quotes without quotation marks. So if you follow their guidelines, you'd wind up with your first letter outside the margin. Not really a big deal, mind you, but their other suggestions are pretty much fool-proof and that one might lead to error in some cases.
About the only thing its missing is that serif type reads faster than san-serif.
I, of course, will be ignoring it because I have a fancy degree from a university that says I know better...
4 comments:
Hey. The link here seems to be for the Harold Koh post, not the CSS stuff.
Thanks. Fixed.
This is a shockingly good set of guidelines. There's lots of "tips to improve your [web site|logo|photos|app] out there but this one is actually simple, practical and effective. It captures 80% of typography 101.
My only nitpick is that, in my experience, most people use blockquote for long quotes without quotation marks. So if you follow their guidelines, you'd wind up with your first letter outside the margin. Not really a big deal, mind you, but their other suggestions are pretty much fool-proof and that one might lead to error in some cases.
About the only thing its missing is that serif type reads faster than san-serif.
I, of course, will be ignoring it because I have a fancy degree from a university that says I know better...
Well I'll have to see if I can apply them to this site in this crazy long template blogspot supplies.
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