I have a confession to make: I love typography. And having just read Web Design is 95% Typography, I think I love it just a little bit more:
95% of the information on the web is written language. It is only logical to say that a web designer should get good training in the main discipline of shaping written information, in other words: Typography.
Macro-typography (overall text-structure) in contrast to micro typography (detailed aspects of type and spacing) covers many aspects of what we nowadays call “information design”.
Optimizing typography is optimizing readability, accessibility, usability(!), overall graphic balance.
This is a timely piece then: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/03/24/how-to-choose-a-typeface/
Nice one, thanks Eamonn.
Nice one.
And since we’re on a typographical tangent, people might also like Font Night at the Design Museum: http://designmuseum.org/design-overtime