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While custom control panels and plugins are great, one of the strongest points of SideWinder is it’s meticulous attention to details in the area of typography. Every major type element has been addressed; You can even change both the Title Fonts and Body Fonts with the flip of a switch in the dashboard; Heck, you can even disable the title-font-replacement if you feeling like straight forward web-fonts instead of the flashy new stuff.

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Multiple Cufon Title Options

The theme comes pre-packaged with a very special version of the Mido Font, complete with ALL characters (including the funky stuff like $^*#@). That’s not all though, you can quickly switch to one of the other 10 fonts included… or turn font-replacement off altogether.
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Custom Body Fonts

This brand new option in the control panel allows you to quickly flip between a “Serif” and a “Sans-Serif” font stack so that you have exactly what you need for your project. Additional tweaks can be made easily using a little CSS and the Firebug plugin if you so choose.
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95% of the information on the web is written language. It is only logical to say that a web designer should get good training in the main discipline of shaping written information, in other words: Typography.
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Optimizing typography is optimizing readability, accessibility, usability(!), overall graphic balance. Organizing blocks of text and combining them with pictures, isn’t that what graphic designers, usability specialists, information architects do? So why is it such a neglected topic?

Back in 1969, Emil Ruder, a famous Swiss typographer, wrote on behalf of his contemporary print materials what we could easily say about our contemporary websites:

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Today we are inundated with such an immense flood of printed matter that the value of the individual work has depreciated, for our harassed contemporaries simply cannot take everything that is printed today. It is the typographer’s task to divide up and organize and interpret this mass of printed matter in such a way that the reader will have a good chance of finding what is of interest to him.

With some imagination (replace print with online) this sounds like the job description of an information designer. It is the information designer’s task “to divide up and organize and interpret this mass of printed matter in such a way that the reader will have a good chance of finding what is of interest to him”.

Macro-typography (overall text-structure) in contrast to micro typography (detailed aspects of type and spacing) covers many aspects of what we nowadays call “information design”. So to speak, information designers nowadays do the job that typographers did 30 years ago:

While custom control panels and plugins are great, one of the strongest points of SideWinder is it’s meticulous attention to details in the area of typography. Every major type element has been addressed; You can even change both the Title Fonts and Body Fonts with the flip of a switch in the dashboard; Heck, you can even disable the title-font-replacement if you feeling like straight forward web-fonts instead of the flashy new stuff.

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[left_col]

Multiple Cufon Title Options

The theme comes pre-packaged with a very special version of the Mido Font, complete with ALL characters (including the funky stuff like $^*#@). That’s not all though, you can quickly switch to one of the other 10 fonts included… or turn font-replacement off altogether.
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Custom Body Fonts

This brand new option in the control panel allows you to quickly flip between a “Serif” and a “Sans-Serif” font stack so that you have exactly what you need for your project. Additional tweaks can be made easily using a little CSS and the Firebug plugin if you so choose.
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Superquotes

[superquote]
95% of the information on the web is written language. It is only logical to say that a web designer should get good training in the main discipline of shaping written information, in other words: Typography.
[/superquote]

Optimizing typography is optimizing readability, accessibility, usability(!), overall graphic balance. Organizing blocks of text and combining them with pictures, isn’t that what graphic designers, usability specialists, information architects do? So why is it such a neglected topic?

Back in 1969, Emil Ruder, a famous Swiss typographer, wrote on behalf of his contemporary print materials what we could easily say about our contemporary websites:

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Today we are inundated with such an immense flood of printed matter that the value of the individual work has depreciated, for our harassed contemporaries simply cannot take everything that is printed today. It is the typographer’s task to divide up and organize and interpret this mass of printed matter in such a way that the reader will have a good chance of finding what is of interest to him.

With some imagination (replace print with online) this sounds like the job description of an information designer. It is the information designer’s task “to divide up and organize and interpret this mass of printed matter in such a way that the reader will have a good chance of finding what is of interest to him”.

Macro-typography (overall text-structure) in contrast to micro typography (detailed aspects of type and spacing) covers many aspects of what we nowadays call “information design”. So to speak, information designers nowadays do the job that typographers did 30 years ago:

While custom control panels and plugins are great, one of the strongest points of SideWinder is it’s meticulous attention to details in the area of typography. Every major type element has been addressed; You can even change both the Title Fonts and Body Fonts with the flip of a switch in the dashboard; Heck, you can even disable the title-font-replacement if you feeling like straight forward web-fonts instead of the flashy new stuff.

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[left_col]

Multiple Cufon Title Options

The theme comes pre-packaged with a very special version of the Mido Font, complete with ALL characters (including the funky stuff like $^*#@). That’s not all though, you can quickly switch to one of the other 10 fonts included… or turn font-replacement off altogether.
[/left_col]

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Custom Body Fonts

This brand new option in the control panel allows you to quickly flip between a “Serif” and a “Sans-Serif” font stack so that you have exactly what you need for your project. Additional tweaks can be made easily using a little CSS and the Firebug plugin if you so choose.
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Superquotes

[superquote]
95% of the information on the web is written language. It is only logical to say that a web designer should get good training in the main discipline of shaping written information, in other words: Typography.
[/superquote]

Optimizing typography is optimizing readability, accessibility, usability(!), overall graphic balance. Organizing blocks of text and combining them with pictures, isn’t that what graphic designers, usability specialists, information architects do? So why is it such a neglected topic?

Back in 1969, Emil Ruder, a famous Swiss typographer, wrote on behalf of his contemporary print materials what we could easily say about our contemporary websites:

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Standard Blockquotes

Today we are inundated with such an immense flood of printed matter that the value of the individual work has depreciated, for our harassed contemporaries simply cannot take everything that is printed today. It is the typographer’s task to divide up and organize and interpret this mass of printed matter in such a way that the reader will have a good chance of finding what is of interest to him.

With some imagination (replace print with online) this sounds like the job description of an information designer. It is the information designer’s task “to divide up and organize and interpret this mass of printed matter in such a way that the reader will have a good chance of finding what is of interest to him”.

Macro-typography (overall text-structure) in contrast to micro typography (detailed aspects of type and spacing) covers many aspects of what we nowadays call “information design”. So to speak, information designers nowadays do the job that typographers did 30 years ago:

While custom control panels and plugins are great, one of the strongest points of SideWinder is it’s meticulous attention to details in the area of typography. Every major type element has been addressed; You can even change both the Title Fonts and Body Fonts with the flip of a switch in the dashboard; Heck, you can even disable the title-font-replacement if you feeling like straight forward web-fonts instead of the flashy new stuff.

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[left_col]

Multiple Cufon Title Options

The theme comes pre-packaged with a very special version of the Mido Font, complete with ALL characters (including the funky stuff like $^*#@). That’s not all though, you can quickly switch to one of the other 10 fonts included… or turn font-replacement off altogether.
[/left_col]

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Custom Body Fonts

This brand new option in the control panel allows you to quickly flip between a “Serif” and a “Sans-Serif” font stack so that you have exactly what you need for your project. Additional tweaks can be made easily using a little CSS and the Firebug plugin if you so choose.
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Superquotes

[superquote]
95% of the information on the web is written language. It is only logical to say that a web designer should get good training in the main discipline of shaping written information, in other words: Typography.
[/superquote]

Optimizing typography is optimizing readability, accessibility, usability(!), overall graphic balance. Organizing blocks of text and combining them with pictures, isn’t that what graphic designers, usability specialists, information architects do? So why is it such a neglected topic?

Back in 1969, Emil Ruder, a famous Swiss typographer, wrote on behalf of his contemporary print materials what we could easily say about our contemporary websites:

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Standard Blockquotes

Today we are inundated with such an immense flood of printed matter that the value of the individual work has depreciated, for our harassed contemporaries simply cannot take everything that is printed today. It is the typographer’s task to divide up and organize and interpret this mass of printed matter in such a way that the reader will have a good chance of finding what is of interest to him.

With some imagination (replace print with online) this sounds like the job description of an information designer. It is the information designer’s task “to divide up and organize and interpret this mass of printed matter in such a way that the reader will have a good chance of finding what is of interest to him”.

Macro-typography (overall text-structure) in contrast to micro typography (detailed aspects of type and spacing) covers many aspects of what we nowadays call “information design”. So to speak, information designers nowadays do the job that typographers did 30 years ago:

While custom control panels and plugins are great, one of the strongest points of SideWinder is it’s meticulous attention to details in the area of typography. Every major type element has been addressed; You can even change both the Title Fonts and Body Fonts with the flip of a switch in the dashboard; Heck, you can even disable the title-font-replacement if you feeling like straight forward web-fonts instead of the flashy new stuff.

[clear]

[left_col]

Multiple Cufon Title Options

The theme comes pre-packaged with a very special version of the Mido Font, complete with ALL characters (including the funky stuff like $^*#@). That’s not all though, you can quickly switch to one of the other 10 fonts included… or turn font-replacement off altogether.
[/left_col]

[right_col]

Custom Body Fonts

This brand new option in the control panel allows you to quickly flip between a “Serif” and a “Sans-Serif” font stack so that you have exactly what you need for your project. Additional tweaks can be made easily using a little CSS and the Firebug plugin if you so choose.
[/right_col]

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Superquotes

[superquote]
95% of the information on the web is written language. It is only logical to say that a web designer should get good training in the main discipline of shaping written information, in other words: Typography.
[/superquote]

Optimizing typography is optimizing readability, accessibility, usability(!), overall graphic balance. Organizing blocks of text and combining them with pictures, isn’t that what graphic designers, usability specialists, information architects do? So why is it such a neglected topic?

Back in 1969, Emil Ruder, a famous Swiss typographer, wrote on behalf of his contemporary print materials what we could easily say about our contemporary websites:

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Standard Blockquotes

Today we are inundated with such an immense flood of printed matter that the value of the individual work has depreciated, for our harassed contemporaries simply cannot take everything that is printed today. It is the typographer’s task to divide up and organize and interpret this mass of printed matter in such a way that the reader will have a good chance of finding what is of interest to him.

With some imagination (replace print with online) this sounds like the job description of an information designer. It is the information designer’s task “to divide up and organize and interpret this mass of printed matter in such a way that the reader will have a good chance of finding what is of interest to him”.

Macro-typography (overall text-structure) in contrast to micro typography (detailed aspects of type and spacing) covers many aspects of what we nowadays call “information design”. So to speak, information designers nowadays do the job that typographers did 30 years ago:

This is an example of a WordPress post. This is a great place to provide a description of your project or to write an entire “blog post”. You can create as many posts like this one as you like and manage all of your content inside of WordPress.

While custom control panels and plugins are great, one of the strongest points of SideWinder is it’s meticulous attention to details in the area of typography. Every major type element has been addressed; You can even change both the Title Fonts and Body Fonts with the flip of a switch in the dashboard; Heck, you can even disable the title-font-replacement if you feeling like straight forward web-fonts instead of the flashy new stuff.

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[left_col]

Multiple Cufon Title Options

The theme comes pre-packaged with a very special version of the Mido Font, complete with ALL characters (including the funky stuff like $^*#@). That’s not all though, you can quickly switch to one of the other 10 fonts included… or turn font-replacement off altogether.
[/left_col]

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Custom Body Fonts

This brand new option in the control panel allows you to quickly flip between a “Serif” and a “Sans-Serif” font stack so that you have exactly what you need for your project. Additional tweaks can be made easily using a little CSS and the Firebug plugin if you so choose.
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Superquotes

[superquote]
95% of the information on the web is written language. It is only logical to say that a web designer should get good training in the main discipline of shaping written information, in other words: Typography.
[/superquote]

Optimizing typography is optimizing readability, accessibility, usability(!), overall graphic balance. Organizing blocks of text and combining them with pictures, isn’t that what graphic designers, usability specialists, information architects do? So why is it such a neglected topic?

Back in 1969, Emil Ruder, a famous Swiss typographer, wrote on behalf of his contemporary print materials what we could easily say about our contemporary websites:

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Standard Blockquotes

Today we are inundated with such an immense flood of printed matter that the value of the individual work has depreciated, for our harassed contemporaries simply cannot take everything that is printed today. It is the typographer’s task to divide up and organize and interpret this mass of printed matter in such a way that the reader will have a good chance of finding what is of interest to him.

With some imagination (replace print with online) this sounds like the job description of an information designer. It is the information designer’s task “to divide up and organize and interpret this mass of printed matter in such a way that the reader will have a good chance of finding what is of interest to him”.

Macro-typography (overall text-structure) in contrast to micro typography (detailed aspects of type and spacing) covers many aspects of what we nowadays call “information design”. So to speak, information designers nowadays do the job that typographers did 30 years ago:

This is an example of a WordPress post. This is a great place to provide a description of your project or to write an entire “blog post”. You can create as many posts like this one as you like and manage all of your content inside of WordPress.

While custom control panels and plugins are great, one of the strongest points of SideWinder is it’s meticulous attention to details in the area of typography. Every major type element has been addressed; You can even change both the Title Fonts and Body Fonts with the flip of a switch in the dashboard; Heck, you can even disable the title-font-replacement if you feeling like straight forward web-fonts instead of the flashy new stuff.

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[left_col]

Multiple Cufon Title Options

The theme comes pre-packaged with a very special version of the Mido Font, complete with ALL characters (including the funky stuff like $^*#@). That’s not all though, you can quickly switch to one of the other 10 fonts included… or turn font-replacement off altogether.
[/left_col]

[right_col]

Custom Body Fonts

This brand new option in the control panel allows you to quickly flip between a “Serif” and a “Sans-Serif” font stack so that you have exactly what you need for your project. Additional tweaks can be made easily using a little CSS and the Firebug plugin if you so choose.
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Superquotes

[superquote]
95% of the information on the web is written language. It is only logical to say that a web designer should get good training in the main discipline of shaping written information, in other words: Typography.
[/superquote]

Optimizing typography is optimizing readability, accessibility, usability(!), overall graphic balance. Organizing blocks of text and combining them with pictures, isn’t that what graphic designers, usability specialists, information architects do? So why is it such a neglected topic?

Back in 1969, Emil Ruder, a famous Swiss typographer, wrote on behalf of his contemporary print materials what we could easily say about our contemporary websites:

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Standard Blockquotes

Today we are inundated with such an immense flood of printed matter that the value of the individual work has depreciated, for our harassed contemporaries simply cannot take everything that is printed today. It is the typographer’s task to divide up and organize and interpret this mass of printed matter in such a way that the reader will have a good chance of finding what is of interest to him.

With some imagination (replace print with online) this sounds like the job description of an information designer. It is the information designer’s task “to divide up and organize and interpret this mass of printed matter in such a way that the reader will have a good chance of finding what is of interest to him”.

Macro-typography (overall text-structure) in contrast to micro typography (detailed aspects of type and spacing) covers many aspects of what we nowadays call “information design”. So to speak, information designers nowadays do the job that typographers did 30 years ago:

While custom control panels and plugins are great, one of the strongest points of SideWinder is it’s meticulous attention to details in the area of typography. Every major type element has been addressed; You can even change both the Title Fonts and Body Fonts with the flip of a switch in the dashboard; Heck, you can even disable the title-font-replacement if you feeling like straight forward web-fonts instead of the flashy new stuff.

[clear]

[left_col]

Multiple Cufon Title Options

The theme comes pre-packaged with a very special version of the Mido Font, complete with ALL characters (including the funky stuff like $^*#@). That’s not all though, you can quickly switch to one of the other 10 fonts included… or turn font-replacement off altogether.
[/left_col]

[right_col]

Custom Body Fonts

This brand new option in the control panel allows you to quickly flip between a “Serif” and a “Sans-Serif” font stack so that you have exactly what you need for your project. Additional tweaks can be made easily using a little CSS and the Firebug plugin if you so choose.
[/right_col]

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Superquotes

[superquote]
95% of the information on the web is written language. It is only logical to say that a web designer should get good training in the main discipline of shaping written information, in other words: Typography.
[/superquote]

Optimizing typography is optimizing readability, accessibility, usability(!), overall graphic balance. Organizing blocks of text and combining them with pictures, isn’t that what graphic designers, usability specialists, information architects do? So why is it such a neglected topic?

Back in 1969, Emil Ruder, a famous Swiss typographer, wrote on behalf of his contemporary print materials what we could easily say about our contemporary websites:

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Standard Blockquotes

Today we are inundated with such an immense flood of printed matter that the value of the individual work has depreciated, for our harassed contemporaries simply cannot take everything that is printed today. It is the typographer’s task to divide up and organize and interpret this mass of printed matter in such a way that the reader will have a good chance of finding what is of interest to him.

With some imagination (replace print with online) this sounds like the job description of an information designer. It is the information designer’s task “to divide up and organize and interpret this mass of printed matter in such a way that the reader will have a good chance of finding what is of interest to him”.

Macro-typography (overall text-structure) in contrast to micro typography (detailed aspects of type and spacing) covers many aspects of what we nowadays call “information design”. So to speak, information designers nowadays do the job that typographers did 30 years ago:

While custom control panels and plugins are great, one of the strongest points of SideWinder is it’s meticulous attention to details in the area of typography. Every major type element has been addressed; You can even change both the Title Fonts and Body Fonts with the flip of a switch in the dashboard; Heck, you can even disable the title-font-replacement if you feeling like straight forward web-fonts instead of the flashy new stuff.

[clear]

[left_col]

Multiple Cufon Title Options

The theme comes pre-packaged with a very special version of the Mido Font, complete with ALL characters (including the funky stuff like $^*#@). That’s not all though, you can quickly switch to one of the other 10 fonts included… or turn font-replacement off altogether.
[/left_col]

[right_col]

Custom Body Fonts

This brand new option in the control panel allows you to quickly flip between a “Serif” and a “Sans-Serif” font stack so that you have exactly what you need for your project. Additional tweaks can be made easily using a little CSS and the Firebug plugin if you so choose.
[/right_col]

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Superquotes

[superquote]
95% of the information on the web is written language. It is only logical to say that a web designer should get good training in the main discipline of shaping written information, in other words: Typography.
[/superquote]

Optimizing typography is optimizing readability, accessibility, usability(!), overall graphic balance. Organizing blocks of text and combining them with pictures, isn’t that what graphic designers, usability specialists, information architects do? So why is it such a neglected topic?

Back in 1969, Emil Ruder, a famous Swiss typographer, wrote on behalf of his contemporary print materials what we could easily say about our contemporary websites:

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Standard Blockquotes

Today we are inundated with such an immense flood of printed matter that the value of the individual work has depreciated, for our harassed contemporaries simply cannot take everything that is printed today. It is the typographer’s task to divide up and organize and interpret this mass of printed matter in such a way that the reader will have a good chance of finding what is of interest to him.

With some imagination (replace print with online) this sounds like the job description of an information designer. It is the information designer’s task “to divide up and organize and interpret this mass of printed matter in such a way that the reader will have a good chance of finding what is of interest to him”.

Macro-typography (overall text-structure) in contrast to micro typography (detailed aspects of type and spacing) covers many aspects of what we nowadays call “information design”. So to speak, information designers nowadays do the job that typographers did 30 years ago:

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While custom control panels and plugins are great, one of the strongest points of SideWinder is it’s meticulous attention to details in the area of typography. Every major type element has been addressed; You can even change both the Title Fonts and Body Fonts with the flip of a switch in the dashboard; Heck, you can even disable the title-font-replacement if you feeling like straight forward web-fonts instead of the flashy new stuff.

[clear]

[left_col]

Multiple Cufon Title Options

The theme comes pre-packaged with a very special version of the Mido Font, complete with ALL characters (including the funky stuff like $^*#@). That’s not all though, you can quickly switch to one of the other 10 fonts included… or turn font-replacement off altogether.
[/left_col]

[right_col]

Custom Body Fonts

This brand new option in the control panel allows you to quickly flip between a “Serif” and a “Sans-Serif” font stack so that you have exactly what you need for your project. Additional tweaks can be made easily using a little CSS and the Firebug plugin if you so choose.
[/right_col]

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Superquotes

[superquote]
95% of the information on the web is written language. It is only logical to say that a web designer should get good training in the main discipline of shaping written information, in other words: Typography.
[/superquote]

Optimizing typography is optimizing readability, accessibility, usability(!), overall graphic balance. Organizing blocks of text and combining them with pictures, isn’t that what graphic designers, usability specialists, information architects do? So why is it such a neglected topic?

Back in 1969, Emil Ruder, a famous Swiss typographer, wrote on behalf of his contemporary print materials what we could easily say about our contemporary websites:

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Standard Blockquotes

Today we are inundated with such an immense flood of printed matter that the value of the individual work has depreciated, for our harassed contemporaries simply cannot take everything that is printed today. It is the typographer’s task to divide up and organize and interpret this mass of printed matter in such a way that the reader will have a good chance of finding what is of interest to him.

With some imagination (replace print with online) this sounds like the job description of an information designer. It is the information designer’s task “to divide up and organize and interpret this mass of printed matter in such a way that the reader will have a good chance of finding what is of interest to him”.

Macro-typography (overall text-structure) in contrast to micro typography (detailed aspects of type and spacing) covers many aspects of what we nowadays call “information design”. So to speak, information designers nowadays do the job that typographers did 30 years ago:

While custom control panels and plugins are great, one of the strongest points of SideWinder is it’s meticulous attention to details in the area of typography. Every major type element has been addressed; You can even change both the Title Fonts and Body Fonts with the flip of a switch in the dashboard; Heck, you can even disable the title-font-replacement if you feeling like straight forward web-fonts instead of the flashy new stuff.

[clear]

[left_col]

Multiple Cufon Title Options

The theme comes pre-packaged with a very special version of the Mido Font, complete with ALL characters (including the funky stuff like $^*#@). That’s not all though, you can quickly switch to one of the other 10 fonts included… or turn font-replacement off altogether.
[/left_col]

[right_col]

Custom Body Fonts

This brand new option in the control panel allows you to quickly flip between a “Serif” and a “Sans-Serif” font stack so that you have exactly what you need for your project. Additional tweaks can be made easily using a little CSS and the Firebug plugin if you so choose.
[/right_col]

[clear]

Superquotes

[superquote]
95% of the information on the web is written language. It is only logical to say that a web designer should get good training in the main discipline of shaping written information, in other words: Typography.
[/superquote]

Optimizing typography is optimizing readability, accessibility, usability(!), overall graphic balance. Organizing blocks of text and combining them with pictures, isn’t that what graphic designers, usability specialists, information architects do? So why is it such a neglected topic?

Back in 1969, Emil Ruder, a famous Swiss typographer, wrote on behalf of his contemporary print materials what we could easily say about our contemporary websites:

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Standard Blockquotes

Today we are inundated with such an immense flood of printed matter that the value of the individual work has depreciated, for our harassed contemporaries simply cannot take everything that is printed today. It is the typographer’s task to divide up and organize and interpret this mass of printed matter in such a way that the reader will have a good chance of finding what is of interest to him.

With some imagination (replace print with online) this sounds like the job description of an information designer. It is the information designer’s task “to divide up and organize and interpret this mass of printed matter in such a way that the reader will have a good chance of finding what is of interest to him”.

Macro-typography (overall text-structure) in contrast to micro typography (detailed aspects of type and spacing) covers many aspects of what we nowadays call “information design”. So to speak, information designers nowadays do the job that typographers did 30 years ago:

While custom control panels and plugins are great, one of the strongest points of SideWinder is it’s meticulous attention to details in the area of typography. Every major type element has been addressed; You can even change both the Title Fonts and Body Fonts with the flip of a switch in the dashboard; Heck, you can even disable the title-font-replacement if you feeling like straight forward web-fonts instead of the flashy new stuff.

[clear]

[left_col]

Multiple Cufon Title Options

The theme comes pre-packaged with a very special version of the Mido Font, complete with ALL characters (including the funky stuff like $^*#@). That’s not all though, you can quickly switch to one of the other 10 fonts included… or turn font-replacement off altogether.
[/left_col]

[right_col]

Custom Body Fonts

This brand new option in the control panel allows you to quickly flip between a “Serif” and a “Sans-Serif” font stack so that you have exactly what you need for your project. Additional tweaks can be made easily using a little CSS and the Firebug plugin if you so choose.
[/right_col]

[clear]

Superquotes

[superquote]
95% of the information on the web is written language. It is only logical to say that a web designer should get good training in the main discipline of shaping written information, in other words: Typography.
[/superquote]

Optimizing typography is optimizing readability, accessibility, usability(!), overall graphic balance. Organizing blocks of text and combining them with pictures, isn’t that what graphic designers, usability specialists, information architects do? So why is it such a neglected topic?

Back in 1969, Emil Ruder, a famous Swiss typographer, wrote on behalf of his contemporary print materials what we could easily say about our contemporary websites:

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Standard Blockquotes

Today we are inundated with such an immense flood of printed matter that the value of the individual work has depreciated, for our harassed contemporaries simply cannot take everything that is printed today. It is the typographer’s task to divide up and organize and interpret this mass of printed matter in such a way that the reader will have a good chance of finding what is of interest to him.

With some imagination (replace print with online) this sounds like the job description of an information designer. It is the information designer’s task “to divide up and organize and interpret this mass of printed matter in such a way that the reader will have a good chance of finding what is of interest to him”.

Macro-typography (overall text-structure) in contrast to micro typography (detailed aspects of type and spacing) covers many aspects of what we nowadays call “information design”. So to speak, information designers nowadays do the job that typographers did 30 years ago:

Over Christmas I was given some pretty incredible cameras. The Fuji above is probably my favorite. Not just because of it’s super stylish modern exterior, but because it takes incredible instant photos. I have to thank my beautiful wife for being so hip to all the things I fancy.

While custom control panels and plugins are great, one of the strongest points of SideWinder is it’s meticulous attention to details in the area of typography. Every major type element has been addressed; You can even change both the Title Fonts and Body Fonts with the flip of a switch in the dashboard; Heck, you can even disable the title-font-replacement if you feeling like straight forward web-fonts instead of the flashy new stuff.

[clear]

[left_col]

Multiple Cufon Title Options

The theme comes pre-packaged with a very special version of the Mido Font, complete with ALL characters (including the funky stuff like $^*#@). That’s not all though, you can quickly switch to one of the other 10 fonts included… or turn font-replacement off altogether.
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Custom Body Fonts

This brand new option in the control panel allows you to quickly flip between a “Serif” and a “Sans-Serif” font stack so that you have exactly what you need for your project. Additional tweaks can be made easily using a little CSS and the Firebug plugin if you so choose.
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95% of the information on the web is written language. It is only logical to say that a web designer should get good training in the main discipline of shaping written information, in other words: Typography.
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Optimizing typography is optimizing readability, accessibility, usability(!), overall graphic balance. Organizing blocks of text and combining them with pictures, isn’t that what graphic designers, usability specialists, information architects do? So why is it such a neglected topic?

Back in 1969, Emil Ruder, a famous Swiss typographer, wrote on behalf of his contemporary print materials what we could easily say about our contemporary websites:

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Today we are inundated with such an immense flood of printed matter that the value of the individual work has depreciated, for our harassed contemporaries simply cannot take everything that is printed today. It is the typographer’s task to divide up and organize and interpret this mass of printed matter in such a way that the reader will have a good chance of finding what is of interest to him.

With some imagination (replace print with online) this sounds like the job description of an information designer. It is the information designer’s task “to divide up and organize and interpret this mass of printed matter in such a way that the reader will have a good chance of finding what is of interest to him”.

Macro-typography (overall text-structure) in contrast to micro typography (detailed aspects of type and spacing) covers many aspects of what we nowadays call “information design”. So to speak, information designers nowadays do the job that typographers did 30 years ago:

Photo: This week’s installment of “what is on my desk right now.” Also known as WIOMDRN.
[I'm lying, no one calls it that] There happens to be a lot of random stuff on my desk right now. This whole week has been dedicated to taxes. Taxes taxes taxes. Needless to say, this week has been exhausting. I’ve got another few day before it’s all done. Fun for me.

I’ll assume you read my last post titled: Age of Enlightenment.
Well, I picked up the G1 – Seen above.
My life, as we all know it has changed for ever. I’ve spent the last 3 days putting my life all on one platform. It’s unbelievable! As you can imagine,

1. The first photo was taken the day after the ice storm.
2. Thomas wanted to see our dinning area and since I was fighting off cabin fever with all my creative might, I decided to take a photo for him.