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by dbonneville 16y ago
Mission accomplished :). As a non-designer, you aren't the target audience, so I'm not surprised, since I wrote the article for those who self-identify as designers, and who have some command of rudimentary typographic terminology. Read the
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by dbonneville 16y ago
"...neophytes and experts" I think if you read the comments, your assessment is incorrect. There is a near unanimous thanks for some simple, clear examples. If you are reading about combining typefaces, you obviously know the basics already
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by dbonneville 16y ago
"Nobody learns to be a rock star developer by merely cutting and pasting code that comes up in a Google search..." That's not exactly true. In fact,that's how many developers get going - merely copying and pasting code, but then later analy
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by dbonneville 16y ago
Oftentimes, in art and design, you can't specify, in a binary way, why something clashes. To your eye, if it clashes, it clashes. You can't really break down an impression into a series of isolated minutia while retaining a sense of the ove
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by dbonneville 16y ago
Good question. I look at fonts and see overall personalities first and tints and shapes later. The tints and shapes are incidentals in the overall personality, and carry little weight when isolated from one another. In the same way, when lo
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by dbonneville 16y ago
Hi - I'm the author of this article over at Smashing. Actually, this kind of scheme of describing typefaces is quite common, especially among the best designers on the planet. If you follow the references at the bottom of the article, you'd