You didn’t think I was done, did you? Here’s a handy tool for your design future: typetester

The Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. Its’ primary role is to make web designer’s life easier. As the new fonts are bundled into operating systems, the list of the common fonts will be updated.

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Whitespace is one of the least understood yet most abused concepts by new designers. Mark Boulton takes a moment to clarify some of the finer details in his recent article for A List Apart.

See the article here.

Take one minute and 52 seconds to get some perspective on typefaces. See the video here. Background on the typeface Helvetica can be found here. Details on the Helvetica documentary can be found here. All reports from SxSWi point to this being a great film. But that’s beside the point.

Typies has a great write-up on many of the characteristics of type. This article doesn’t point out “rights” and “wrongs” but rather illustrates the differences between characteristics.

Today, I want to take time to analyze how to choose a correct text typography design in different cases. It is very important to understand that those tips are not conclusive, but they can be a good help at the moment of choosing a text type. In any case, it depends on what do you want to transmit with this type, because many times legibility is as much important as the character of the type.

Since we’ve begun to look at type in class, you will want to go ahead and give the article a look here. Remember, at this point we are simply trying to get our eyes to see the various nitty-gritty details.