Some Random Dude

Some Random Dude is a blog by P.J. Onori that covers design & technology in the broadest sense possible.

Archive for February, 2006

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Typography on the Web – Beauty is Not Letterform Deep

For the last few years, design on the web has strongly shifted towards a more usable and standards driven approach. It is now commonly accepted that HTML text is far more usable than images containing text. However, many web designers still use images for type due to the typographic control they obtain. No one argues with the fact that using HTML text instead of images for type is more usable and ultimately better design as a whole. Nonetheless, many feel that strong typographic design cannot be achieved without defaulting to images for text. Because of these reasons, many still continue to use images rather than HTML text due to the typographic control they have with Illustrator, Photoshop, Fireworks, etc. In my opinion, web typography with the aid of CSS and other tools, has the potential to be typographically strong. In addition, text which is meant to be read or to perform a user or system-based function that is not HTML text could arguably be considered poor typographic design. Read On…

Tonkyou and Iconitos pages updated

I’ve been slowly cleaning up the small fragments of that remain of my old blog. I finally was able to get the Iconitos and Tonkyou projects in the new blog format. I’d like to add a little more functionality to these pages, but this alone was a big upgrade.

If you haven’t yet seen these abstract icon font sets, you may just want to take a look. For what it’s worth, I think they’re quite interesting.

Same icons, new name: Sanscons

My poor choice of naming led to a few bumps in the road for my new icon set. The new name for said icons is now Sanscons. I’ve created an alternate page which will from this point on carry any updates – so please change your bookmarks and del.icio.us posts.

After talking to Dan about this issue, I have nothing but respect for him. He’s a really solid guy and I’m glad we were able to work things out.

Thanks again Dan.