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Typecast Becomes a Free Web Design Tool
Starting today, Typecast™ is a free web design tool. We always wanted our app to help make the web a more beautiful place, and the best way to do that is to open it up to everyone—everyone who cares...
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Mark Boulton on HTML Ads
Do you think the creation of HMTL ads can ever be a truly cost- and time-effective process? This question was certainly at the front of our minds when we were working on our example ads. One of the...
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10 Fonts for Code
These days, monospaced typefaces are synonymous with code, but it wasn’t always so. Western monospaced typefaces were initially designed to be used on typewriters where the technical limitations...
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12 Italics That Whisper and Wail
A lot of what we do as designers is about guiding people to information in order of priority. Colour, size and spacing can all be used to emphasize content. But if we look at using a type-first...
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Win a Copy of ‘On Web Typography’
Punctuation is a system. That’s why proper quotation marks and apostrophes look like they’re part of the same family as commas, periods, colons, semicolons, and more, whereas straight quotes don’t....
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Jordan Moore on Mobile-First Type & Layout
All RWD seems to be about handling different widths, but are there any strategies to ensure that your website is also responsive between different heights (for example when you want to make sure...
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Improving Online Ads with HTML
Let’s face it. Ads on the web need some love. While web fonts and responsive design have created more readable, seamless experiences for visitors, and many of us have improved workflow through closer...
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Clean, Lean Serifs for Science & Tech
Turnip Thanks to its chunky serifs, Turnip has a strength and density that makes it feel authoritative—but in a cool substitute teacher kind of way. Those squared counters give it a geometric flavor...
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Brighter Lighter Blackletters
Blackletter was the first style of type to be printed from movable metal type back in the 15th century but fell out of favor with the arrival of the more legible Roman type. Fast forward to now, and it...
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Masculine Scripts
Line Try Line for yourself now Taking inspiration from the graffiti on the streets of New York, Line is an impactful monoline script. I particularly enjoy the intriguing contrast between its sharp...
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Dan Mall On Rapid Ideation
How do you manage client expectations with this new process and convince them that they don’t need to see multiple versions of homepages? It’s a shift not just in process, but in mindset all around....
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Designing for Moments With Media Queries
Consuming content on the web is like entering the fog of war we see in video games—that enforced lack of situational awareness that encourages the player to move into unmapped areas of the screen to...
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Readable, Fluid Type With Basic CSS Smarts
Keeping your type at comfortably readable line lengths can be quite a challenge with responsive design. When viewports can be nearly any size under the sun, it can feel like we’re going to need a whole...
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A New Typeface Designed for Split-Second Legibility
Introducing Burlingame A few years ago, Monotype’s type designer Carl Crossgrove began work on a new typeface as part of a proposal for a major gaming platform. When the client went with another...
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7 Servings of Type for a Healthy Head & Body
URW Antique Olive Try URW Antique Olive for yourself now Despite its yummy olivey-round shapes, Antique Olive was actually named for its French foundry (Fonderie Olive) and not the fruit. Designed in...
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The Voices of Type
If you’re excited about using type, I would bet that a large part of your excitement comes from the voice of type. By ‘voice’ I mean the feeling found in within it — the personality and attitude we...
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10 Foundries We Heart
Jake Giltsoff Five fab foundries that Jake thoroughly fancies Suitcase Type Foundry Try Tabac G1 Medium, Dederon Medium Italic and Nudista Semibold for yourself Suitcase Type Foundry was founded just...
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Best New Web Fonts of 2013
Try Pétala Semi Light & Italic. Pétala Pro is an extremely flexible typeface with a hefty 18 weights and styles, so it’s capable of handling pretty much any typographic challenge you throw at it....
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Inside the TechCrunch Redesign with Dan Mall
Since the Tech Design relaunch went live, many have likened it to The Verge. How inspired were you by that site? I take inspiration from everywhere, but The Verge is an easy one to reference for a...
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A More Modern Scale for Web Typography
I’m a big believer in responsive web design. It’s the only way I know to provide the best experience across the increasingly fragmented landscape of devices and capabilities that is the new normal on...
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