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Web Design is 95% Typography

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.

Information design is typography

Back in 1969, Emil Ruder, a famous Swiss typographer, wrote on behalf of his contemporary print materials what we could easily say about our contemporary websites:

http://informationarchitects.jp/the-web-is-all-about-typography-period/

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This entry was posted on December 18, 2008 by in Article, Typography and tagged , .

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