Comments on: 20 Do’s and Don’ts of Effective Web Typography

By: KC Painter

KC Painter — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 05:01:30 +0000

Thanks for the great article. I am trying to focus on typography for my website, and had a fast question. Do you have a font size scale that you use? Or due you use a different scale for each project?

Thanks,
KC

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:06:02 +0000

Thanks. I learned a lot from this.

By: web design hull

web design hull — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 19:25:05 +0000

Great post, some really good tips for people to follow… I remember probably more than ten years ago we used to comment on artwork we received that used comic sans looked awful 99% of the time.

By: joseph

joseph — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:37:55 +0000

thanks nice ….. i learned a lot.. by proper spacing.. and height.. and proper typeface…really thanks cheers..

-joseph

By: Mary Baum

Mary Baum — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:24:37 +0000

Part of readability is using the simplest, clearest words possible to get your point across, and a particular pet peeve of mine is overly formal language – especially the word ‘utilize.’ Lots of folks think it’s a more elegant way of saying ‘use’ – and that using bigger words when smaller words will do makes them sound better-educated.

Two things:
1. The reverse is actually true: Using smaller words instead of bigger words shows you have a command of your subject and you respect your audience. Think of your favorite profs in university – they often used very conversational language to get their point across.

2. I just found this out a couple years ago: ‘Utilize’ does NOT mean ‘use.’ At all! It means ‘use in a new (in the sense of being pretty unusual, furthermore) way.’ As in, “She was so fixated on keeping her hair dry in the rain, she utilized *the toxic-waste bin* as a hat!”

By: Iwan

Iwan — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 03:11:35 +0000

very useful. thanks for the tips, mike!

By: Inner game

Inner game — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 08:49:51 +0000

I noticed the same thing! I guess rules were made to be broken…

By: Logobird Designs

Logobird Designs — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:46:44 +0000

Great post. Agree with pretty much all your advice. I really need to improve my typography skills…
Excellent stuff!

By: Maak

Maak — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:24:58 +0000

DO NOT take any of the above “Do nots” to seriously or religiously.
Especialy the one about a whole page of cufon distracting a viewer…That would totally depend what font you used..And the always use websafe fonts for body text and then promoting font stacks.
Another thing, if you add 5-6 pixels to your font size to get line height you will never keep a consistent baseline grid as larger font sizes would mean larger line heights. not that that’s wrong of course…you just can’t have both.

By: Ronnie

Ronnie — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:24:08 +0000

DON’T use and apostrophe in the word ‘dos’.
Title should be Dos and Don’ts.