WebTecker the latest Web Trends, Resources and News. » Inspirational http://webtecker.com Web Resources and Trends Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:33:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Understanding Web Typography http://webtecker.com/2008/05/22/understanding-web-typography/ http://webtecker.com/2008/05/22/understanding-web-typography/#comments Thu, 22 May 2008 23:46:15 +0000 Brett http://webtecker.com/?p=309 Typography on the web is becoming more and more important. Which means that us web designers must fully understand Typography to get the most out of it. Typography is more than just deciding what fonts or font sizes to use. It is about placement, alignment, line height, spacing, and more. The resources below are some of the best ways on the web to learn about Web Typography.

Articles

  • Web Style Guide to Typography – This a very in depth guide to web Typography. It explains the characteristics of type, and goes in to great detail about alignment, line length, white space, typefaces, type size, Case, and emphasis.
  • The Principles of Beautiful Typography – This is a great article that is actually an except of the book The Principles of Beautiful Web Design. This article goes into details about fonts, letterforms, spacing, text size, and more. Its a great and informative read.
  • – This is a great guide that is still being written with some awesome content. The guide deals with CSS and text for the web.
  • Web Typography – This is a nice introduction to typography explaining font classifications and online usage for the text.
  • A List Apart Typography Articles – A List Apart has 14 articles about the importance and usage of Typography. This is a great list of articles.
  • Web Typography Cheat Sheet – This article gives you five typography tips to keep in mind when you are designing a website.

Resource Sites

  • - Is a great typography resource site/ community that is dedicated to fonts, typefaces, and everything related to Typography. I love Typography even wrote a great guide called A Guide to Web Typography.
  • – Is a great online Typography community that will be able to answer any question that you have about type or typefaces.
  • Common fonts to all versions of Windows & Mac equivalents – This is a great little resource to help you find what fonts you can and can’t use.

Inspiration

  • Typesites – Is an inspirational gallery that reviews amazing sites showing you great examples of typography.
  • The Showcase Of BIG Typography – This list is by Smashing Magazine and has tons of great examples of amazing Typography.

If there are more resources you wish to ad to this list please comment below.

]]> http://webtecker.com/2008/05/22/understanding-web-typography/feed/ 5 Inspirational Sites of the Month http://webtecker.com/2008/04/30/inspirational-sites-of-the-month/ http://webtecker.com/2008/04/30/inspirational-sites-of-the-month/#comments Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:43:22 +0000 Brett http://webtecker.com/?p=234 Being that it is the last day of April, its time to showcase some inspirational sites to get those creative juices flowing. Since the majority of the readers here are web designers/developers, I decided to showcase the most Inspirational websites from the URLs you left on your comments this month and I found three inspirational websites. If you think I your site should be on this list then please comment or contact me.

  • Kriesi.at - Kriesi.at is a great looking site by Christian Budschedl. The site has a great looking header and the navigation bar is just stunning. Also on the blog page which is half in english tells you how to accomplish the navigation effect.

  • SiteSquared – Sitesquared which is designed by Shanna is a very artistic website. SiteSquared has a very nice navigation bar with a cool hover effect. If you are looking for some inspiration you should check this site out.

  • Niall Doherty – Nial Doherty website is very unique. The home page is a horizontal scrolling website. The site is built on Wordpress and uses the jQuery framework with the coda-slida plugin. It is a very unique website that you must check out.

I am going to be doing this once a month if it is well recieved. If you want to be considered please contact me or comment any time during May 2008.

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