Flat Design
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- mikotondria30
Can I venture that flat design only really works and is aesthetically pleasing with good typography ?
And that webfont typography is fairly recent, and that flat design is possibly its first big influence ?
Imagine a lovely modern, light, feminine, flat interface with jagged Arial or Verdana 11pt in it - it would look unfinished as people's eyes are so so so tired of the old school of faces - Arial, Verdana, Times, Georgia - that was it for a long time, that's all you could use. Now everyone has screen-smoothing and there are thousands of valid, high-quality faces to use. Clients don't know why they're loving these simple, muted interfaces - it is, and really always was, about typography. We're just having a brief moment of clarity before it gets crazy again :)