Matthew LaVelle’s weblog

So for part two of this article I was able to view the Forty Media website. I learned that the synopsis on the GraphicsIQ web site was more like a carbon copy of the article at Forty Media. I learned that Forty Media is located in Pheonix Arizona and the main page of their web site looks a lot like a weblog. They are also part of an audio interview on NPR today. James Archer, from Forty Media, made a couple one prediction that was very bold indeed. The end of Verdana.

I have to disagree with this one. Verdana is one of the most readable fonts ever for screen viewing, and it’s not going anywhere anytime soon. As a replacement he suggested maybe Arial. Now, I’m not extremely knowledgeable in the area of typography but didn’t Arial used to be the main font used on web sites? I think so. Anyway it’s also still a very heavily used font. And designers will always play around with other fonts , but I think that Verdana will remain a good choice for many years. I’d like to make a prediction about line height, otherwise known as leading in the graphic design world. With the advent of most modern day web browsers understanding a good bit of the CSS 1 specification and some more advanced browsers picking up on some of the CSS 2 specification web designers will begin to play with line-height and word-spacing rules more and as a result will render new and interesting typographic techniques without the use of extra bandwidth.

Well I have to get to my New Years celebration so I should get to doing a part 3 of this article soon.

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