Techniques for Responsive Typography

In Best Practice by Fredy Ore

A very handy article by CoDrops on Responsive Typography. One of the most important aspects of responsive web design is typography. When it comes to responsive type on the web, …

Typography Outline and Shape affects word recognition

In Archive by Fredy Ore

This Microsoft paper within their Typography and Cleartype section titled, The science of word recognition, comments on evidence within cognitive psychology that indicates we use the letters within words to …

Fonts for programmers

In Archive by Fredy Ore

It’s not that often that you consider a variety of font styles and faces to help in programming for OS X and Windows, but here are a variety I’ve recently …

Icograda have a great resource of links

In Archive by Fredy Ore

Icograda have a great resource section on Graphic Design Organizations, Collections, Libraries and Exhibitions, Design Magazines, Publishers, Schools, Tools, Techniques and Typography.

The History of the San Serif typeface

In Archive by Fredy Ore

A webreference.com article on the history of the San Serif typeface and the world of fonts. Written in 1998 the article comments on the interesting and somewhat demanding study of …

Understanding web typography

In Archive by Fredy Ore

I came across an interesting article on Font choices, accessibility and web design while visiting the new accessibility website called, MadeForAll. The article is written by Jim Byrne and he …

Owen Briggs’ resource site on typography

In Archive by Fredy Ore

A useful resource on typography for the web. This page by Owen Briggs is excellent in describing the big and subtle differences of using pixel sizes, ems or points on …

A collection of useful Font sites

In Archive by Fredy Ore

A collection of useful font websites I’ve used today www.fontfont.de www.adobe.com/type/main.html www.emigre.com www.t26.com www.digitalthread.com/fonthaus

Different types of typography and techniques

In Archive by Fredy Ore

Here is an interesting article titled ‘Alien Typography’ by Joe Gillespie from this months Digital Web Magazine. It looks at different types of typography and important techniques www.digital-web.com/features

Plusism by Matius G Griek

In Archive by Fredy Ore

I came across this website by Argentinian based designer Matius G Griek, [+ ism] purely by accident and what an awesome website it really is. Excellent use of layering and …