Typography

The art of arrangement, style, appearance and printing of type and typefaces.

The art and technique of selecting and arranging type styles, point sizes, line lengths, line spacing, character spacing, and word spacing for typeset applications

THE PRACTICE OF VISUALLY REPRESENTING WORDS

In this weeks seminar we were set the task of looking at typogtaphy used in print and web design. Typograhpy can help in making a design great but if used wrong it can kill it intyrarly. 

PROBLEMS FOR WEB TYPOGRAPHY?

 

• Has to work across different computer platforms and screen sizes

• The Web designer must understand issues and to address them

•Maintain some kind of control

•Line length and number of lines

•Font sizes

These are all things that need to be taken into consideration when creating a website

Serif or san sarif fonts?

For my site i will be using san serif font as i feel that it is easy to work with in web design and easyer on the eyes.

Commonly Available Sans-serif Fonts

Things to remeber 
Generally, 2 fonts are sufficient in any design. Don’t forget you can use the typeface variations (bold, italic, etc) for different content areas.

Don’t mix too many fonts in a web page.Try designing a page that uses only 1 font for all text areas.You can experiment with font colour and visual hierarchy too…

Website ideas

I lke the flash navigation used on this site although atm i have no idea on how to create this click here

Apollohq.com uses the web style i wish to replicate. Logo, navigation and a nice welcome image are used at the top of the page,
There is that a nice, clean white content block,
Followed by a black footer containing all the company info.




This site looks great although id not be able to replicate it. I like the nav on the left hand side which i could create but the style of the site im yet to understand.
DJ Pony found on unusual_navigation and created by sunderland studio

http://www.hellomonday.com/#/awards/ This site is beautiful to say the least.

Apple HTML5 Showcase good look at the future.

Mood bored

Interactive space

The idea for my interactive space project came purely for the time of the year. A Christmasy, snowy wintery theme. I wanted to originally make a 'escape the room' game but when i came to plan it i found that the concept was good but the creation would be deceivingly hard. Not wanting to differ from a game route i want for a treasure hunt game, in this case the treasure was a lost penguin which you (the player) have to find around a wintery town square.                                                                  I found that the town centre in its new christmasy look to be the perfect setting for my treasure hunt game. I had the game tested out several times by different people including myself and we found that it was hard to discover where to click. I added the arrows and penguin feet as markers as where to click as to aid the player.

Over all with not doing much with dreamweaver or HTML coding i feel i picked up the project fairly quickly. There where a few problems i encountered such as adding more hot spots but after solving this problem i was well on my way.

My interactive space can be found here : index.html

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