Wednesday, April 19, 2023

the house red of typography

Mike Mai's Fun brief Codepen on Typography.

There's always a tension and balance to be found. Designing for the web isn't quite like designing for a poster; you're wrestling with other constraints of resolutions, widths, color balances, overall download speeds, page flash, etc - so there may be some places where being too precious about typography isn't good value for money.

Conversely, the old webdev joke "`font-family: sans-serif;` - it's like ordering the 'House Red' at a nice restaurant!" - probably indicates a lean too far the other direction.

 

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