Fwd: Re: [WW] Use of Textual Graphics on Web Pages

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.
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>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.
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Received on Tuesday, 26 September 2000 17:52:33 UTC