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The Grid & Typography for Developers

The Grid & Typography for Developers

A quick primer on design principals needed to design and develop advanced web applications. The talk will provide insight and resources into, creating and using a grid, web typography, and how mastering such fundamentals can improve your application's usability and user experience.

thoughtmerchant

July 10, 2012
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  1. Do you have these problems? Columns don’t line up Users

    do not know where to look Everything is different sizes Looks like shit
  2. LINE-HEIGHT font-size: 14, 22, 34, 58 line-height: 20, 25, 40,

    60 General Rule: line-height is 120% of font-size.
  3. SERIF OR SANS-SERIF? Sans-Serif* *Unless retina / high DPI display,

    then doesn’t matter http://www.useit.com/alertbox/web-typography.html
  4. PARTING WORD Use your eyes. In the end you need

    to make what looks right. - Robert Newman, SCAD Professor