Univers is a realist/neo-grotesque sans-serif face designed by Adrian Frutiger in 1956. It features even stroke weights and a large x-height for easy readability. It’s similar to Helvetica, both primarily inspired by Akzidenz Grotesk, and hallmarks of the International Typographic Style. Wikipedia offers an excellent comparison chart of the differences between Univers, Akzidenz Grotesk and […]
Futura was designed in 1927 by Paul Renner, a German type designer, and commissioned by the Bauer type foundry. Renner held the very Bauhaus/Howard Roark belief that a typeface shouldn’t necessarily be a revival of a previous design. When designing the face, he eliminated all non-essential elements, a design principle I usually try to follow […]
I will never resist the opportunity for a pun, no matter how terrible. Those of you who visit this site are treated to careful typographic consideration in Lucida Grande. Those of you who visit on a PC are not so lucky, as you get Arial. (Really it should be Helvetica, but I meant to swap […]
This is a blog about adventures in design, and sometimes other crap. My name is Beth Dean and I’m a web designer from Cleveland Ohio. I work for Progressive Insurance as a UX Developer.
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