A Typography Example

By Daniel Miessler on April 3rd, 2008: Tagged as Design | Typography

I wrote recently about re-evaluating the font I use here on the site, as well as some other design elements. Well let me show you what it looks like when you know what you’re doing.

font_beauty

This guy, Rod Graves, has it down. Simplicity is the key to many things, including a clean, sophisticated feeling web site. I particularly like this page that I got the image above from: http://www.rodgraves.com/profile/.

I mean just look at how clean that is. I’ve spent hours scrubbing the web for this kind of quality, and this is where I’m taking my site as I move forward with it, keeping two ideas in the forefront:

  1. Content
  2. Presentation

As either one suffers so does the other.:

  • Anonymous

    The contrast is way too low, I find that text very difficult to read.

  • http://billmill.org Bill Mill

    The contrast is way too low, I find that text very difficult to read.

  • http://jasonsares.net/ Jason Sares

    He stole the design from John Gruber who does it better:

    http://daringfireball.net/

  • http://jasonsares.net Jason Sares

    He stole the design from John Gruber who does it better:

    http://daringfireball.net/

  • http://blog.nicholascloud.com/ ncloud

    I work with a designer who refuses to learn PHP or Javascript — which are two languages that my company uses extensively on our projects. This makes any UI design difficult because all he wants to do is go on and on about typography, color, CSS, etc. (which are all awesome, don’t get me wrong), but he won’t soil his hands with even the basic programming skills necessary to make his UIs work. His background is print, so I can understand why he would be adverse to learning some basic programming, but are professional designers typically like this?

  • http://blog.nicholascloud.com ncloud

    I work with a designer who refuses to learn PHP or Javascript — which are two languages that my company uses extensively on our projects. This makes any UI design difficult because all he wants to do is go on and on about typography, color, CSS, etc. (which are all awesome, don’t get me wrong), but he won’t soil his hands with even the basic programming skills necessary to make his UIs work. His background is print, so I can understand why he would be adverse to learning some basic programming, but are professional designers typically like this?

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