Showing posts with label design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label design. Show all posts

Monday, March 3, 2008

The essential fonts


Just happened to be looking around on digg.com and found this page talking about 30 fonts that every designer has to have. Just scrolling through them real quick, there's plenty of familiar faces -- some of which are barely distinguishable from one another. But I suppose the real key to a great design is the subtle differences, like the ones in some of these fonts.

It's always kind of funny to me when I'm looking for an original font somewhere and am going through the millions of different options... only to usually come back to one of the good 'ole basic fonts that's listed on this page.

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Notice the visual editing in this

Note the symmetry and grouping of the readouts, the repetition of the red lead-ins. The "magnet" of this portion of the page is near Bush's hand. The directional lines in the image work perfectly to lead the reader into the information. What else can you find?