There’s a very thin line between simple and clean and powerful and simple and clean and boring.
— David Carson in the Helvetica Documentary, via TheManInTheSea
Archive for the ‘Design’
It is often the margin of time spent on the tiniest details that separate the good designers from the great ones.
From Designshack.
Readability is whether an extended amount of text—such as an article, book, web page—is easy to read. Legibility is whether a small burst of text such as a sign or a headline is instantly recognizable.
Now I am enlightened. More about readibility and legibility here.
You should never add something just because it looks good—aesthetics are never the end goal but rather a tool web designers may use to achieve a specific goal (and only when it actually helps them achieve that goal).
Oh and what about losing the uniqueness of iA’s design by giving our own design away? Think about it. Visual uniqueness is overrated. And if you use our template: We’re the original, you’re the copy. As long as you don’t act like us, pay for your copy and acknowledge that we’re the author I have no problem whatsoever with spreading good web design.
Cooper Black is a perfectly good font, but in my mind it is a fat, happy font associated with the logo for the ‘National Lampoon,’ the sleeve of the Beach Boys’ ‘Pet Sounds’ album and discount retailers up and down the U.S. I wouldn’t choose it as a font for St. Agnes Church even as a joke. Every time I go by, my vacation is, for a moment, ruined.