BlogblogUCO: May 2013

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Final post to your blog due today. No posts to your blog will be accepted about 1 p.m.

Make one recommendation below for improving the class.

You will be responsible to know:
Blog Terms; Typography; Selected link from State of Blogosphere; Dave Rhea comments in class

A. Blog terms:

B. Typography"

Clark’s Guide to

Readable Typography for Blogs

(Or anything, for that matter)

1. Serif—Easiest to read

2. Sans Serif—harder to read the smaller it is or the more of it there is

3. Most body type should be about 12 point in size

4. Script is hard to read

5. Italic is hard to read

6. Only center type

On Invitations,

Or Titles, not

On most material

7. ALL CAPS IS HARD TO READ

8. REVERSE TYPE

should be at a

9. Minimum
And small san serif
is hard to read
As is colored type
on reverse

10. Screens can make type hard to read

Especially over sans serif

Or heavy and colored screens

11. Weak colors disappear

12. Colored type isn’t as effective

As black type, or dark type on a light background