Elliot Jay Stocks discusses how the baseline grid informs the design and drives the typography. Check it out.
Posts Tagged ‘type’
If you love typography, this is just…
Wow! Please don’t miss these explorations of web typography. You’ll thank me after.
A Typographic Hierarchy Evaluation
Frank Chimero pulls together a good study over on Typekit’s blog about typographic hierarchy.
How to kern type perfectly
A great quick tip on kerning type – by turning it upside down. I’ve always used the eye squinting test, but this method seems just as viable.
Free Fonts: Technical and artistic quality
A great, more technical, write up by @Fontshop which makes for great company along side my recent post, With beautiful type comes great responsibility. Includes a nice list of things to check when picking a free font.
With beautiful type comes great responsibility
Yesterday I happened to catch a glimpse of a tweet linking to an article titled, The Problem with Free Fonts, and as a typography fanatic I had to click and read. I’m not sure if the article title was a bit misleading, but I was a hint disappointed by the depth of the articles positioning. [...]
