For some, typorgraphy is just a bunch of words with letters shaped in some sort of manner. However, with some color and strategy in placing words, typography can become an art in itself.
It is no rumor that many people find that they remember things much better from aesthetically pleasing images. There are thousands of different fonts available that can be used for just about anything. It can literally set the tone of a graphic, OR add a little flavor to a site to enhance the blog author’s voice.
Art does not have an exact definition except that is an expression of one’s thoughts, feelings, and more. Typography is a creation that some fonts may be clean and professional, some perhaps even ghastly, and others… fun and lighthearted.
I have put together a graphic to illustrate my point that typography is an art.
I am graphic designer using photoshop actually and I truly agree with your post statement. Every day I keep looking for inspiration combining the right colors and right font will become an art with good arrangement.
Thanks Nile,
Typography is more important when you writing a long article for your website.
To keep the readers engaged.
Yes Nile F. !!
you are right it is very important to choose right typography.
it makes your more attractive.
In your words typography is a art !! 🙂
Typography is truly an Art, the one who knows it well can only understand it. For rest, it’s just more words to deal with.
I like your blog and your profile pic too. My best wisher with your blog and your life.
TC 🙂
Yes Nile. I agree that typography as an art. It will make good loking for our blog.
I like Oswald Font from Google, it’s a nice font
interesting articles and commentaries friend, I became interested in reading, I introduce a new blogger from Indonesia origin. greetings
Really very impressive post. I must say this is one in the most well written posts, that I have seen with this topic in a very long time. Indeed, it was. Will probably get a link up here at some point. Thanks go to Dutch for asking me to come on once again. Keep us posted like this guys.
Thanks for this idea, Nile. I tend to just stick with the same font, or add a little variation now and then for emphasis, but I see now that I can be far more creative 🙂
Alan
Nile,
You have a point here and I totally agree. An attractive font can mean the difference between someone actually reading your content. Color is always more attractive. The normal 10-12 point font in black is very boring. I will have to get more creative when the options to vary the font is available.
Thank you Nile for helping us to expand our thinking and creativity.
Lynn
Could not agree more. Though, it should not be over do.
totally agree Nile.Typography means a lot in creativity.will looking forward to more from you.thanks
This is not my part, I just love a good design but can’t be one of them. I always use default font from the theme, seems need more exploration about that 😀
Thanks Niles…
Agree. Typography is so important. Thank for your post!
Hello Nile, I really like your typography art work, the different colors make it look great too. I agree that typography is definitely an art. Certain fonts make a lot of images look either good or terrible!
Hmmm….i would say typography is a science…….calligraphy is an art
Having worked in fashion since years I am very attracted to the artistic side of a page, a blog or a site in general.
I like the example you are sharing, art work makes our blog look more original attractive and with personality.
Typography certainly can be an art, I have seen some great sites made even better by excellent typography and I have seen some great sites rendered almost unreadable by typography.
I like to read a well designed and well laid out site, and the ease of readability goes long way toward my opinion of the content. Unfair, perhaps, but true nonetheless.
I have seen designers who claim to know a lot on design, but doesn’t know anything about Typography.
I think it’s a very important aspect in design and changes feel and the look of the website as whole.
Typography definitely does change a website from being cut and dry to having the added flavor that speaks for the website owner. 🙂
I am agree, but remmember, do not abuse of font variety, use only 3 at most on a design, if you use more then you will have a worst appeariance
i am new to typography but by reading this article i learn few things about it.Thanks for this new information to me.
I believe typography is an art form. Some people have a better eye for it than others and it can make a world of difference. If done properly it can be a big benefit to almost any webpage.
Typography is a beautiful art. I was taught this when taking a graphic design diploma. We were made to print typefaces using many different methods such as vinyl cutting and block printing. I quickly learned that typography could be as powerful as an image when it comes to emotional responses.
Thank you for this post Nile.
I really like your website and your writing style.
I don’t think other people than designers themselves look at typography as an important message carrier.
Typography is an art – I definitely have to agree with that. Real challenge for designer is to make it look professional and clean.
i can’t see it as an art
can you show me one ?
Hello Nile..
I learned fro here that typography could be as powerful as an image when it comes to emotional responses.typography Makes once blog attractive and interesting.
Thank you for this post Nile.
As a former fashion designer I love colors, fonts and typography. As soon as I have time I will try illustrator for my upcoming blog. Playing around with typography is definitly something I really like!
I use a certain font style and size for content, headline, subheadlines. This makes all of my websites be unique and uniform 🙂
Very Nice Article Nile. I’ve been doing a lot of research lately on Typography after seeing how important it is to the actual aesthetics of a website. I’m also finding that using typography to enhance a site’s appearance takes up much less space than uploading tons of images 🙂 Very nice site by the way!
Typography when done right can have a profound effect on the people that gaze upon it’s beautiful structure