- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 14:38:17 -0700
- To: w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org
Len asked the following: >> >I'd really like to hear from graphical designers if there are cases where >> >branding requires non-standard fonts... instead of e.g. using a few small >> >images for logos, bullets, and other decorations.. or even having a large >> >image... and relying on text with a coordinated font and background color >> >for the rest of the page. I took that as an "action item" :) and I forwarded the request with background info to the Wise Women discussion list (see http://www.wise-women.org/), which is home to a number of very skilled graphic/web designers. Here's the first reply back from that list: >a recent project of mine was the site for author graham joyce (http://grahamjoyce.net), the site needed to both transmit the eerie horror/dark fantasy style of his books and his personality. one of the themes for his book covers was a smoke/mist effect and on 90% of them his name was set in a specific font. carrying this brand/connection over from his books was very important and was a very good reason to use graphical text as opposed to html text. > >i also set the navigation in graphical text too, more for mouseovers than anything else, but i wouldn't consider that a requirement. more a design decision. > >brig > > >please feel free to forward, reprint this message to other lists. > > > > >-------------------------- >http://jungawunga.com/ - internet development studio >http://eatonweb.com/ - weblog > > > > -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://kynn.com/ Director of Accessibility, Edapta http://www.edapta.com/ Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain Internet http://www.idyllmtn.com/ AWARE Center Director http://www.awarecenter.org/ Accessibility Roundtable Web Broadcast http://kynn.com/+on24 What's on my bookshelf? http://kynn.com/books/
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