Successful Web Design: It’s All About The Details
Pay attention to alignment, contrast, type effects and color because these items can make or break your website design.
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Add Impact to Type-driven Projects
In type-driven design, use varying type sizes, weights and color for impact and to create hierarchy.
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Condensed fonts: The good, the bad, the ugly
Condensed fonts can be tricky use and should be avoided for blocks of type, although they can work well when used sparingly.
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Understanding and Using Type Categories in Web Design
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Knowing how to identify and use fonts from different type categories can make your projects come together more easily.
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Establish a Mood with Typography
The typefaces you select for a project can impact what people think as much as the actual message you convey.
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Type Effects and Modification
Understanding type modifications can help designers focus on readability for chunks of type or a hint of flair for a more artistic approach.
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Be Less Annoying: Reduce Bounce Rates through Better Web Design
by Patrick Cox
A properly designed site can reduce bounce rate and increase engagement significantly. In this article, six important elements are introduced that are important for
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With Rocking Letters into the New Year
by Team Codrops
2011 has been an exciting year for Codrops and we want to thank you for supporting us! We've learned a lot and it's a privilege to us to be able to share our tutoria
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Experiments with background-clip: text
by Mary Lou
With the CSS property "background-clip: text" (which is currently only supported in Webkit browsers), we can add a background image to a text element. Today we will
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6 Questions You Should Ask Yourself When Choosing Fonts
by Patrick Cox
If you're like me, selecting fonts for your web design is going to be either easy or the most difficult task you'll face. Fonts are a huge, powerful part of any desi
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Typography Effects with CSS3 and jQuery
by Mary Lou
Today we will create a set of nice typography effects for big headlines using CSS3 and jQuery. There are many things we can do with CSS3 animations and transitions a
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25 Fresh Examples of Beautiful Typeface Combinations in Web Design
Typography is a very important part of design and choosing the right type for your design can be very challenging. From print to web layouts, typography is the cente
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Interactive Typography Effects with HTML5
by Tim Holman
With HTML5 gaining popularity, this tutorial outlines what is really just the tip of the iceberg that is interactive design. In this tutorial I will go over the dev
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Sliding Letters with jQuery
by Mary Lou
Today we have a neat little effect for you. We want to bring some life to the standard hover effect by playing around with the letters in an anchor word. […]
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The Problem with Web Fonts
by Patrick Cox
The problem with web fonts is that nobody wants to use the ‘safe’ fonts and you need as much live text on your site as possible. So what’s a design
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