Typography and Chapter 10

Typography is the balance and interplay of letterforms on the page, a verbal and visual equation that helps the reader understand the form and absorb the substance of the page content. It plays a two part role, verbal and visual. Though headlines are just headlines, they server some importance. The main on is so that both human readers and automated search engines can look at a document and easily determine its information structure. CSS sheets are Cascading Style Sheets. The provide control over the exact visual style of headers and other text on the page. Good typography depends on certain things, such as legibility, alignment, surprising enough the kind of computer one has. Repeating patterns established throughout the pages help the reader establish the location and organization of your information and increases the legibility. Alignment, define the reading area of a page by separating the main text from the surround text. Lastly, depending on whether you have a MAC or Windows affects the font sizes. On windows web browsers the text display will look 2 to 3 times points larger than on a MAC. For example a 12 font size on a windows will look like a 14-16 font size on a MAC.

Chapter 10 was very informative. I never actually knew the difference between the file formats. I always just saved things as what would come up. Also I agree that when you open a website and it takes to long to load it is just annoying and you don’t want to wait. I usually just skip ahead and find a new one, which in many cases probably isn’t good because if I waited for it to load it could be an amazing site with lots of good information. The anti-aliasing thing was very interesting to me. I have noticed before images not always being clear on a site but just thought maybe it was my computer or a bad picture. I did not know there was an actual reason and name for it. Later I learned that it is good for large display type, but it is not good for small type sizes. Anything small than 10 points wouldn’t work because it reduces it too much that one could probably not even read it.

After reading the Typography piece it brought to my attention color bind people. I completely forgot that without seeing the colors a page may look like nothing of importance. I really enjoy colors and like to use them whenever possible but like in the article you have to show another way to emphasis what the color means because not everyone can see the color. Also sometimes colors do not always show up the same on different computers. Another thing that was interesting was that the font sizes are different between MAC’s and windows. I have always used windows so I would not even know how to use a MAC but I did not think they would be different in font size.