Archive for April, 2009

Apr200902

Katrina Neufeld

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This week’s design blog favorites

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Typography Keyboard Layout: Download Now!
Smashing Editorial, Smashing Magazine | April 2, 2009
The main idea was to provide the web design community with a handy tool that would let designers enter characters that are usually unavailable on a keyboard easier and quicker. If you already tried to enter such words like naïve [...]

Apr200901

Katrina Neufeld

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Serif vs Sans Serif

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A client of mine insists on using a sans serif font for all his business communications. Why does this rub me the wrong way? Because I was taught that serif fonts are easier to read and more legible particularly for large bodies of copy. As I recall, this is due to [...]