Teaching designers & devs about the power of digital typography! 📼 #PimpMyType YouTube Channel 💌 Weekly #FontFriday NL 🤢 Stretched fonts 😍 #variablefonts
It breaks my heart 💔 to see what happened within the past week. I loved twitter, but this redesign makes me 𝕏-it. It was wonderful here 😢, but that time is over.
The next talk I sketchnoted is The Invisible Power of UI Typography by @glyphe at the Design & UX Conf @smashingconf@vitalyf
To the user, the UI is the product, and a big part of it is text.
How can you make type work for you? 🧵
It breaks my heart 💔 to see what happened within the past week. I loved twitter, but this redesign makes me 𝕏-it. It was wonderful here 😢, but that time is over.
Before/After: What a hot redesign for #sotb23@webstandards session this was!
🔥 Content restructured
🔥 Design aligned towards a rounded aesthetic
🔥 More white space around elements
🔥 Typefaces are more balanced, easier to read body text
🔥 Speakers & Talks stand out more
Discover how to get most out of the #webdesign of this conference website by @webstandards, so that it can convey its message even better. Join the HOT 🔥, fun, free, live webinar on July 19th!
Discover how to get most out of the #webdesign of this conference website by @webstandards, so that it can convey its message even better. Join the HOT 🔥, fun, free, live webinar on July 19th!
English speakers – I need some grammar help. Is it: “Helvetica set in larger sizes” or “Helvetica set at larger sizes”. I’m always unsure. Referring to the type size here.
These numerals make me sick 😳! But how could I change them without changing the font?
By using OpenType features – one of my @figma Typography Secrets 🤫! #typography
I spent the last week recording and editing the #UIFonts Mini Course. If it looks smooth in the end result, it went a looong way 😅. A few of my outtakes.
Get the over professional, over the top, over and out end result here:
pimpmytype.com/checklist
Font Matrix – See & Pair Typefaces Like Never Before by @glyphepimpmytype.com/font-matrix/
The Font Matrix is a different way of seeing typefaces. It is based on the work of Indra Kupferschmid.
#typography
Don’t trust #ChatGPT when it comes to #typography. Besides all the save, overused, boring typefaces it suggests, it can clearly guide you in the wrong direction. It suggested Quicksand 😳 for #uiDesign!
“When it comes to user interface, the biggest part there is text. Users skim or scan the text and make decisions because of that. Typography helps them find out what’s important.” — @glypheuibreakfast.com/268-ui-typog…