Grid (Web site graphics) - Softcover

Carlson, Jeff; Malina, Toby; Fleishman, Glenn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564965171 ISBN 13: 9781564965172

Publisher: Rockport Publishers Inc., 1999

Synopsis

The Web limits designers' typographic options by forcing them to adopt workarounds and rendering images to control basic attributes such as font choice, leading, and kerning. This collection features the best and cleverest sites which employ interesting type - whether that means expressing text in images, coding tags in HTML, or using Cascading Style Sheets to engage the eye through juxtaposition, spacing, and other typographic techniques.

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Review

Another entry in the Web Site Graphics series, Typography : The Best Work from the Web features Web sites that outshine others in their use of type. "Each site draws some advantage from or is designed for the Web and takes into account the special requirements needed to render or display type in a small, scrollable and live window."

It's not surprising that many of the typographically outstanding sites shown here are from design firms. For example, Cow.InteractiveCommunications (http://www.cow.com/), is an interactive design firm whose Web site shows a creative, yet spare use of a single typeface with small, interactive lines of text, simple images and blocks of colour. Studiomotiv (http://www.studiomotiv.com/) shows off the beauty of classic letter forms even while it informs viewers of the history and anatomy of type design.

Typography also celebrates sites that run counter to accepted notions of "good typography." Typographic.com (http://www.typographic.com/)pushes the envelope of readability with its postmodern deconstructed text and navigational scheme, almost daring the viewer to persevere through their site. Bianca (http://www.bianca.com/), an online community, goes in another "anti-typography" route by using naïve handwriting for headings and a site map that looks like a child's drawing.

Typography is not a how-to book. As with the others in this series, it shows, through ample colour illustrations, a few of the best in Web design, chosen by the knowledgeable and discriminating authors. It's the quickest way to find out what's on the cutting edge. --Angelynn Grant, amazon.com

Topics covered: screen captures of many Web sites showing innovative uses of typography in Web design, with captions explaining why each site was chosen and listing artistic credits, and an index with the names and addresses of all design firms involved.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rockport Publishers Inc.
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1564965171
• ISBN 13: 9781564965172
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96