Posts Tagged ‘websites’

In an ever-changing web world, new technologies are constantly evolving. With the emergence of alternative font display systems, new CSS effects and the increased uptake on modern browsers, designers are using these new techniques more and more. Add this to a sprinkling of current design ‘trends’ such as the noise filter, and pixel perfect line details and it makes for some very similar looking websites.

It is inevitable then that these new and shiny capabilities will catch a web designer’s eye (especially after years of browser constraints) but are we turning our eagerness to use the latest styling techniques into a world of monotonous and similar designs?

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Welcome to the third Condensed Type; A weekly roundup of typographic links from my dedicated typography account @typographylinks. Enjoy!

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A subject that has created a bit of discussion recently has been to do with comments. With Tim Van Damme removing them completely with the latest design of maxvoltar.com and Sam Brown blogging about the subject just last week I thought I’d reply to a question I was asked last week.

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A better-late-than-never post on a game played by Tim Van Damme, Elliot Jay Stocks and Sam Brown (i’m sure there are plenty more people playing the game!).

Simply go to your browser, type in the letters A-Z and blog the results. So here are mine:

1. amazon.co.uk
2. bucket.unstoppablerobotninja.com
3. cufon.shoqolate.com
4. delicious.com
5. entitycode.com
6. flickr.com
7. google.com
8. hootmonitor.com
9. ilovetypography.com
10. jasonsantamaria.com
11. kitbag.com
12. logooftheday.com
13. maban.co.uk
14. next.co.uk
15. o2.co.uk
16. prandall.com
17. n/a
18. readernaut.com
19. scrunchup.com
20. twitter.com
21. n/a
22. viget.com
23. n/a
24. xavierencinas.com
25. youtube.com
26. n/a

But rather than just knock them up in a UL like some, and being that kind of person I had to make an ordered list and use capitalised letters. The CSS to do that is:

.alphabet-list{list-style:upper-alpha}

So play along and leave your results as a comment!