Maybe customizing Twitter Bootstrap’s designlike this wasn’t such a good idea! Back in November I discussed various options for integrating Twitter Bootstrap into a Rails 3.1 app, including... Read More
Typography
Bruce Lawson shares some notes on developing sites for the Asian market which, if you define 'Asia' as including India and China, accounts for over 40% of the population of the planet.Read More
Everyone’s decking their websites out in Proxima Nova and Adele now that services like Typekit make webfonts easy to use and the standard web-safe set look increasingly dated. But what if you... Read More
There are a number of ways to add breathing space to your type. White space or negative space helps to focus attention on the words, while line spacing and letter spacing can help to make your text... Read More
Many typographic decisions are based on spacing. This is something that has always been true with printed type, and became applicable to web type with the advent of CSS. Regardless of whether... Read More
When you type text into any reasonably modern word processing program, even though your keyboard key shows that ubiquitous ASCII double quote symbol, you see nice “curly” opening and closing... Read More
With today’s snazzy and competitive “Web 2.0” and social media world, universal design is many times forgotten. It’s bewildering as to why since there are many social, technical, financial,... Read More
Type-and-symbol logos generally take the form of the company name in type, and a symbol representing the ideals of that company beside, underneath or above the name. When using both type and... Read More
Type-and-symbol logos generally take the form of the company name in type, and a symbol representing the ideals of that company beside, underneath or above the name. When using both type and... Read More
Welcome to episode five. Today’s podcast is from Jason Beaird, a User Experience designer at Mailchimp, and author of the Sitepoint book, The Principles of Beautiful Web Design . In this episode,... Read More
Welcome to episode five. Today’s podcast is from Jason Beaird, a User Experience designer at Mailchimp, and author of the Sitepoint book, The Principles of Beautiful Web Design . In this episode,... Read More
