Design

15 Tips To Typography

Very cool article on helping you decide on what is an appropriate Type Face for your next essay, poster or web site you are developing. On a side note, sIFR is a great method to allow you to preserve any specialty type face rendered correctly on any browser regardless if the person viewing the site has the font. Hot damn.

The letterform
The ‘ductus’ represents the framework of a type. It is very important. For a text with a good legibility, we need typographies with a simple ductus, without complex details which could distract the reading process. So, we could pay attention to the text, not to the characters.

Anyways, there is some evidence that type face has an impact on how readers grade your reports/papers/essays/etc. So this applies to everyone in school who are looking to score a little something extra next time. I mean, there are 100’s of free fonts out there. Just search.

15 Tips [Typies]