The Tarragon Times » typography http://www.jthonline.com/WordPress The Blog for jthonline.com Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:47:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Typography http://www.jthonline.com/WordPress/typography/ http://www.jthonline.com/WordPress/typography/#comments Sat, 01 Aug 2009 13:29:11 +0000 John http://blog.jthonline.com/WordPress/?p=42 [...]]]> A friend recently emailed me that his wife, who was a professional typesetter by trade, thought that my use of italics for the first letter of paragraphs after some headings, was not good design.  I was already doubling the size of the letter and changing its colour.  It was a bit of overkill and I was doing something “because I could” – which is not a basis for good design.

Since then I have come across two wonderful websites for those who are at all interested in typography.

http://www.inspirationbit.com/

and

http://ilovetypography.com/

Both are WordPress sites.

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