10 Websites with great typography design.
March 16, 2011 by Irukandji76
Filed under Web Design
Typography is both a bane and blessing for designers. In all designer’s mind (admit it) there’s this thought that if all else fails, we can always fall back on Typography. However, ask any designer, and they will all have a love hate relationship with typography. Typography is an art in itself. The art of creating design based around mere fonts. And it is for this reason that it is such a difficult art to master, and yet when done right, would create aesthetics that is as endearing as any we’ve seen.
And if you think that Typography design for print is a pain, then typography in web design is even more so. On top of having to make the design beautiful, we have to start worrying about the compatibility of the fonts with certain browsers and platforms, and we have to work our design based around the few fonts that are compatible (Fortunately, this list is growing longer. You can check out some of these fonts here http://www.google.com/webfonts)
However, if you look around, there are sites out there that manage to work around all the limitations to come up with some great websites.
Jeroen Homan
The New York Moon
Digital Podge
Visual Republic
Solo
Fill Studio
James Gosling
Elysium Burns
Amazee Labs
Pineapple Thief
Gone in a Flash. Great non flash website designs.
March 13, 2011 by Irukandji76
Filed under Uncategorized
To flash or not to flash. The question is now more often asked than before thanks to Mr. Jobs who has single handedly made HTML Sexy again, by barring flashers from all his sexy handheld gadgets. Suddenly, clients and agencies are at a loss. Will we need to settle for boring sites they ask. But fret not, Flashers, for we’re here today to prove that there is life after Flash.
Appear successfully creates an easy to navigate site, without using too many functions, resulting in a sleek classy portfolio site.
Momkai’s site is not only a showcase of a good flashless site. It is a testament to good design period. The navigation is smart and intuitive. Every element of design are carefully thought out. Truly a superb site that would hold it’s own against any flash sites.
A clean fun site that is a joy to navigate. Another example showing that less is more.
A nice website featuring nice touches, and details e.g. nice videos, nice illustrations etc.
Image Mechanic’s website is simply a site well designed. It is an endearing website with a wonderful display of typography. After looking at their site, it gives us inspiration for our next post: Websites with good typography design.
A nice site with very nice illustrations and details. Again very nice typography. And a breeze to navigate. I know we’re sounding like a broken record. But you get the picture. Easy navigation + Nice typography = Nice websites.
A very nice website with simple navigation, AGAIN. Smart design on the display of their works.
A nice site employing a horizontal sliding navigation. Featuring some really great works.
Nothing fancy. Maybe again a perfect example that sometimes you don’t really need anything fancy for a good website, just good old fashioned layout.
Yes. It’s that white house. Obama Residence. We just had to find a post where we can feature the site. On a serious note, it is a site with a lot of content that is laid out in a very organised easy to navigate manner.
So there you go. If you are ready to embrace the revolution. Talk to us enquiry@antidote.com.sg
