The iA folks have written a post on Web Design is 95% Typography (including a follow up part two).
95% of the information on the web is written language. It is only logical to say that a web designer should get good training in the main discipline of shaping written information, in other words: Typography.
95% may be a touch inflammatory of course, but I think there is an important point here.
- The text lines (measure) are too long.
- 100% scalable is not a reader friendly solution: Don’t make me think, ok, but don’t make me resize my window either.
- Lack of whitespace.
- Lack of active whitespace.
- Linespacing is too narrow.
- The text blocks are not well alined.
- Too many font sizes.
- Pictures are badly placed and disrupt the ease reading.
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:31 am