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

Thanks Kynn.

In this example, the author's name "Graham Joyce" was part of an 
image.  I'd consider that an example of what I consider an allowable use of 
html text in logos... the logo happens to be rather large here.

As the designer points out, there were some navigation links that were html 
text, but only for the purpose of mouseovers.  The mouseover effect is 
simply to change the font color, so it could have been done with CSS rather 
than image text. And the designer herself says that the font wasn't 
critical there.

Meanwhile, the rest of the text and links on the page are real text, with 
font and color coordinated with the logo.

So I think her page comes close to an example of how to use real text... 
and could have been complete aside from what she says was a design decision 
rather than a requirement.

Gorgeous page by the way.

Len

At 02:38 PM 9/26/00 -0700, Kynn Bartlett wrote:
>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.
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Received on Wednesday, 27 September 2000 08:50:59 UTC