In this article, I’ll present 24 font stacks used by major online newspapers based in United States and in France. I’ll compare the American and European typography under this respect and, hopefully, I’ll get to some conclusion.
What are font stacks
Font stacks are lists of font family names; they live in stylesheets; their members are comma [...]
I’m not a JavaScript fan, but I must admit it mkes happen lots of pretty things. This is probably why about half of the web design articles I read every day are JavaScript related. JS slowly got more and more popular, and sometimes I thing this frenzy is not so different from the overuse of [...]
If you take a look at a design showcse, you’ll notice that there definitely is a “wood trend” out there. And it’s been there for a couple of years now. Desks, tables, fences, wood walls, cork boards, blackboards, you name it. Actually this “wood trend” is a part of a wider trend, which one could [...]
I mean really ugly. Yes, we see beautiful websites, subscribe to CSS galleries to spy on competition or to find inspiration, link to blogs with unique designs, craft themes for public releases, but this is only the illusion we’ve chosen to live in. The sad fact: users will never see a website the way we [...]
Published on March 7, 2009 in Design · 4 comments
I was designing OrangeJuice and wanted to spice it a little with some mouseover effects. Everything was going smooth and easy and I was thrilled about the results. For a moment I even forgot about ranting against IE6; oh, what a glorious moment of aesthetic contempt, what a contemplation of ideas in act. And then, [...]
The problem with grids, it was said, is that they limit the designer’s creativity. Maybe it’s because the grids are made out of boxes and one must inevitably think inside of them. Or maybe it’s because creative people really hate limitations (poets, for instance, after struggling with meter and rhyme for centuries ended by inventing [...]