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5 Faces for UI Design
Here I’ve pulled together five useful typefaces for user interface design, which I’ve mocked up in a simple screen for an imaginary smartphone application that I’ve called Righter. For something like...
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Superhero Superfamilies
With the heap of fonts available on the web and the overwhelming amount of choice at our fingertips, it’s easy to forget that, sometimes, one font family is all we need. After all, using a single,...
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New Arrivals: CSS Columns, Quick Inserts & Reordering
A while back we introduced floats, clears, borders, and shadows, to give you more control over your compositions and help you create more realistic designs. Today the trend continues with another boost...
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Talking About Building (Plus Free Prizes)
At Build 2012 we ambushed these fine folks to talk shop about type, web design, and better ways of working. We were lucky enough to corner Jeff Veen and Ethan Marcotte, who spoke at the event, as well...
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Test Drive Typecast for Free When You Use Google Fonts
Yes, that’s free as in free. No account necessary. Just select a typeface on Google Fonts, click Try it in Typecast, and in two seconds you’ll be designing with it on text of any length right there in...
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Test Type On Devices With Mobile Previews
Exciting news type lovers! You can now view all of your Typecast projects on your mobile. This means that you can quickly: show your designs to others while out and about talking shop; and test the...
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Design With MyFonts’ Rising Stars in Typecast
Somebody pinch us! We’ve been dreaming about this since way back in beta – the day we’d be able to design with the MyFonts collection in Typecast. And it’s finally here! 80,000 MyFonts web fonts to...
View Article“Make It Like the PSD”
“Make it like the PSD.” It’s something that I’ve heard often in front-end development, and it raises my hackles every time. While the design process probably involved wireframes, sitemaps, user stories...
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10 Display Faces for Under $50
Leitura Display Try Leitura Display Swashes and Roman Designed specifically for editorial use, Leitura Display makes a bold headline, perfect for a newspaper-like design. A transitional typeface...
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Tailor-Made Type for Web Design
Try Didot eText Regular and Bold. Text adapted from Daniel Will-Harris Monotype recently released the second collection in their eText series of typefaces – fonts new and old drawn specifically for...
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A More Modern Scale for Web Typography
I’m a big believer in responsive web design. It’s the only way I know to provide the best experience across the increasingly fragmented landscape of devices and capabilities that is the new normal on...
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Inside the TechCrunch Redesign with Dan Mall
Since the Tech Design relaunch went live, many have likened it to The Verge. How inspired were you by that site? I take inspiration from everywhere, but The Verge is an easy one to reference for a...
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Best New Web Fonts of 2013
Try Pétala Semi Light & Italic. Pétala Pro is an extremely flexible typeface with a hefty 18 weights and styles, so it’s capable of handling pretty much any typographic challenge you throw at it....
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10 Foundries We Heart
Jake Giltsoff Five fab foundries that Jake thoroughly fancies Suitcase Type Foundry Try Tabac G1 Medium, Dederon Medium Italic and Nudista Semibold for yourself Suitcase Type Foundry was founded just...
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The Voices of Type
If you’re excited about using type, I would bet that a large part of your excitement comes from the voice of type. By ‘voice’ I mean the feeling found in within it — the personality and attitude we...
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7 Servings of Type for a Healthy Head & Body
URW Antique Olive Try URW Antique Olive for yourself now Despite its yummy olivey-round shapes, Antique Olive was actually named for its French foundry (Fonderie Olive) and not the fruit. Designed in...
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A New Typeface Designed for Split-Second Legibility
Introducing Burlingame A few years ago, Monotype’s type designer Carl Crossgrove began work on a new typeface as part of a proposal for a major gaming platform. When the client went with another...
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Readable, Fluid Type With Basic CSS Smarts
Keeping your type at comfortably readable line lengths can be quite a challenge with responsive design. When viewports can be nearly any size under the sun, it can feel like we’re going to need a whole...
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Designing for Moments With Media Queries
Consuming content on the web is like entering the fog of war we see in video games—that enforced lack of situational awareness that encourages the player to move into unmapped areas of the screen to...
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Dan Mall On Rapid Ideation
How do you manage client expectations with this new process and convince them that they don’t need to see multiple versions of homepages? It’s a shift not just in process, but in mindset all around....
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