21 Apr 2009 9 am eastern

ALA 282: Life After Georgia

In Issue No. 282 of A List Apart, For People Who Make Websites:

  • Can we finally get real type on the web?
  • Does beauty in design have a benefit besides aesthetic pleasure?

Real Fonts on the Web: An Interview with The Font Bureau’s David Berlow

by DAVID BERLOW, JEFFREY ZELDMAN

Is there life after Georgia? We ask David Berlow, co-founder of The Font Bureau, Inc, and the first TrueType type designer, how type designers and web designers can work together to resolve licensing and technology issues that stand between us and real fonts on the web.

In Defense of Eye Candy

by STEPHEN P. ANDERSON

Research proves attractive things work better. How we think cannot be separated from how we feel. The next time a boss, client, or co-worker scoffs at the notion that beauty is an important aspect of interface design, point their peepers here.

A List Apart explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices.

[tags]alistapart, type, typography, realtype, truetype, CSS, beauty, design, aesthetics[/tags]

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4 Responses to “ALA 282: Life After Georgia”

  1. Amazon.com: Designing with Web Standards (2nd Edition): Jeffrey Zeldman: Books said on 22 April 2009 at 12:58 am:

    [...] Berlow by DAVID BERLOW, JEFFREY ZELDMAN Is there life after Georgia? … This is syndicated from Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report. [...]

  2. Thiago Cavalcanti said on 22 April 2009 at 11:46 pm:

    Beauty is an important aspect of interface design, no doubt about this.

    The problem is that there’s a lot of people who get carried away by it, and thus forget about everything else (usability, for instance).

    While I was reading the book you’ve made available recently, I got pretty upset because you didn’t write not even nearly enough about what should be avoided in web design. The error compounds because this book is aimed at professionals coming from printed media, and those are the ones who are most likely to need such good advice.

    Man, there are reasons for why you’ve made it to where you are today. What you may think it’s obvious or just common sense isn’t neither one nor the other to a lot of people, especially people with a background in a related, but different topic.

    So yes, you are right, but you’re not telling us enough. Just my humble opinion.

  3. myFeeds said on 23 April 2009 at 10:26 am:

    [...] and other great productivity apps. We studied the leading web design and development job boards …ALA 282: Life After GeorgiaIn Issue No. 282 of A List Apart, For People Who Make Websites: Can we finally get real type on the [...]

  4. Jeffrey Zeldman said on 23 April 2009 at 3:02 pm:

    Thanks, Thiago. That’s good advice.

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