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- stewart0
something that is also typical for US design is what happens in the hutchinsstreetsquare logo on your website:
all characters in serif capitals, and the first characters in bigger capitals (!!)
- sauerbraten0
yeah, but i think it IS more difficult to read Georgia when it's small and bitmapped, it's easier for us to read Verdana
- sauerbraten0
it's a Cap/Small Cap solution, it's not that strange.. the italic thing stuck in there is arguably inappropriate, a serif/sans solution in the logo might be interesting, also the fact that you re-iterate the name again in that content window "welcome to hutchins street square" and it's obviously treated differently, it's conflicting with the logo me thinks..
- stewart0
yeah, screen typography is different from the good old book typography.
but if I use sans serif bodytext - the heading will also be sans serif. especially on screens.
- sauerbraten0
maybe just welcome, they typed in the address, they see the logo, you don't need to tell them again that they're at 'Hutchins Street Square'
- sauerbraten0
i agree with stew
- Submerse0
Cool guys, thanks for the good feedback
- sauerbraten0
yer damn straight. it's nice to talk about typography and web sites, it's often very much neglected, *rubs typography on the back, "ahh sorry fella"
- stewart0
okay okay
confession:
I've also designed websites with strange (or even bad) typography.there is a possibility you thing this is one of them:
http://www.opella.nlthis was a website for a home for the elderly...
- Submerse0
I don't think is really bad stew. I think it's cool you took into consideration that the people visiting the probably have "old eyes" and appreciate the larger body text.
- stewart0
so, you think 80 year old people go online to find them a nice home for the elderly?
oh okay,
you'll never know...
that's why i designed it with their crapy 4 color 800x600 pc screen in mind.
- Submerse0
LOL, hey even my parents who are in their late fifties think standard copy on the web (11/12px) is too small. Never know...
- sauerbraten0
it's very dutch. i kinda like it. when most of us are designing a website, we have this preconceived notion of how a website should look, eg, logo upper left, footer, nav buttons, contact page, etc. etc. it's nice to see a site that doesn't LOOK like a website
- stewart0
that is the best compliment you could ever give me and other Dutch Designers, but you knew that already i think. anyway, thanks sb!
and i think every designer should strive for this;
don't start a project by building a website, but start with concepts, shapes, motions, on and with pieces of paper etc.
- scarabin0
i think it looks f'ing great.
nice work.
- sauerbraten0
i keep going back and forth deciding whether or not print design should inform web, or IF they're such different mediums that they should be approached wholy different.. the web shouldn't be a series of static designed pages (like a print piece) each section of a site should flow, i don't know it's weird, we're all still figuring it out..
- stewart0
a few years ago when i studied design, i made one of my first websites.
i had a teacher who had to mark this project.when i'm at work designing a new websie i always remember his comment:
"Why does this look like a printed magazine? Combine your intellectual capacity and creative use of existing technical possibilities".
this opened my eyes...but yes, i know - this is not always that easy when you're designing commercial websites. but you can always try.
- err0
I like the fonts you chose except for the bold sans fonts in the body compete too much with the blue serif fonts in the body as well.
Did that make any sense?
Also you need a footer Or a better one. Maybe its just me because Im looking at it on a G5 w/ 23in display (OSX10.3 Safari) Weeee
- sauerbraten0
err, you better be at an Apple store..
- err0
Busted!
I am at an applestore.
Uhg
Im sucha geek