New Fonts Coming to the Web...

This article in Slate suggests that new fonts are coming to the web.

This opens up new territory for web designers and perhaps e-learning designers as well. Many e-learning designers think of web design as the default design for e-learning. Maybe the new web will usher in a new era of e-learning design as well.

One thing to watch out for: Do you or your team have the aesthetic training/empathy to know how to use fonts to set a mood, convey a meaning? Ahhh, something more to build.

Comments

[Ken Allan]

Kia ora e Will!

I almost feel ashamed to admit this, but I'm not sure if you are serious or what.

Setting a mood with a font? Yeah, well, possibly with music, and colour with a bit of shade here and there. I can get that. But a font! Are you coming it or something?

As if the whole vista of font design is yet to be actualised and realised. As Victor Meldrew would say, "I don't believe it!"

Catchya later

[Jessica]

I believe that fonts can set a mood just as easy as music or color can. There is a huge difference when you read something in Lucida Bright vs. reading it in Chiller.

[Tom Troughton]

I believe that fonts can definately set a mood. Good "heads up" for people who are not aware of this and thus the message they may be sending unintentionally.

[Seo Company India]

Excellent read, I just passed this onto a colleague who was doing a little research on that. And he actually bought me lunch because I found it for him smile So let me rephrase that.