Re:Stop Using Arial and Helvetica (2013)
by throwawayish on Monday January 30, 2017 @07:20AM
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> to the crisp 7pt pale-gray-on-white designers usually label "joy to read" or "beautiful".
Perhaps because they are actually neither and many designers are not well-versed in typography. Making text beautiful (but not necessarily readable) is design; making text readable (but not necessarily beautiful) is typography. They of course, overlap, and good typography usually looks good as well.
Perhaps because they are actually neither and many designers are not well-versed in typography. Making text beautiful (but not necessarily readable) is design; making text readable (but not necessarily beautiful) is typography. They of course, overlap, and good typography usually looks good as well.