Today I’ve been working on the graphical design, and to be more precise: the typography part. First of all there was Google, then there was typography. With various word(combinations) there were a few usefull websites which we are going to use as sources for information about this subject. First of all we got, ofcourse, Wikipedia (NL)(ENG). Not much interesting there if we compare it to the other websites, some mongol may update/ add more information about it on the Dutch version. This one’s in Dutch too, called “Typografie en vormgeving op het net”. (ENG: Typography and design on the net”). If you want to know more about ‘smart using of text on a webpage’, this one’s a must-read. Also I found a website, the URL of it blew away when the window opened, which was claiming the internet consist of ~95% written typed text. The rest is… …the rest.

And last but not least, WebAIM (which is a site for developers who want to think of other people.. people with disabilities! Yes they are not dumb, they only need some extra helping tools (hard or software) to browse the web) has an interesting article about Fonts. A part of the conclusion I made for myselfs is that we have to use “em” or “%”, and not “px”, “pt”, etc.. for the font-sizes. Totally worth reading!

To convert from points (pt) to pixels (px) or ems (em) or percentages (%), this site is usefull. To convert from pixels (px) to ems (em): divide by 16 -> 12px/16=0.75em