Typographers: the Original UX Designers
Updated: 2011-07-31 18:11:01
: Work Ideas Events About Contact Search July 8, 2011 Typographers : the Original UX Designers By Kim Cullen 5 Comments We named the project rooms in Adaptive Path's new San Francisco office after typefaces . This made the type nerd in me happy and hopeful about the respect paid to typography on UX . design Recently something inspired to me to crack open the bible of print typography , The Elements of Typographic Style , rdquo by Robert Bringhurst As a student this dense book , first published almost 20 years ago , was the bane of my existence . But revisiting it I was struck by how the rules of good typography reflect those of effective UX design . Below are a couple quotes that resonated with both the type and UX nerd in . me Honor the . content Typography exists to honor the content