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Re:Web Design is 95% Typography by leonpaternoster on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @04:27AM (#1782715)
The context of this statement is important, I think. Back in 2006 web sites were all about Flash, widgets, fancy graphics etc. All Oliver was saying is that these things are unimportant if your text is unreadable.

And by typography he means a lot more than whether it's georgia or helvetica.

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Re:Web Design is 95% Typography by eswat on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @08:01AM (#1783019)
The context is important. A lot of popular websites are still unreadable messes (thank you Instapaper & Readability) but it was more prevalent when this article came out, when many web designers thought “typography” on the web was just choosing a typeface—any typeface that wasn’t Times New Roman—and changing the default leading.
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