Posts Tagged: Typography

I’ve been looking for a new theme to redesign my blog for months, and found nothing that matched my fairly simple, yet exacting, requirements, so I thought I’d try and build my own. Now given my rather patchy knowledge of HTML and CSS, and my non-existent knowledge of WordPress I knew this would be tricky… Continue Reading ›

As somebody who can barely write legibly, I find this lettering process from Frank Ortmann utterly enthralling. Via The Ministry of Type

Jon Hicks has just launched Helvetireader a wonderfully minimalist yet superbly usable theme for Google Reader. I’ve used Google Reader as my RSS application of choice despite it’s rather cluttered and ugly interface; I mean what is it with Google and pale blue? Anyway, I’ve tried the Better GReader plug-in and a few other themes… Continue Reading ›

I love these signs created for a car park in Melbourne, Australia. So often, car parks have unclear or confusing signage, but there’s no missing them here; in fact, the down sign looks as if you might crash into it.

Brilliant cartoon from The Rut. Via Hicksdesign

Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been flattered to receive some lovely feedback on davidhughes.org, which has meant a lot to me. First, I had a lovely compliment on my writing, then I was complimented on my use of typography in the design. I was contacted via Flickr asking if I could make a… Continue Reading ›