Designing with Vignelli's Rules
Massimo Vignelli spent sixty years proving you need a grid, a handful of typefaces and a lot of discipline. What that looks like when the page is a browser window.
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Typography.
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The '90s Computer-Ad Look, Without Faking an Operating System
How this site borrows the warmth of early-'90s Apple ads (editorial type, cream paper, slate ink) and why the fake menu bars and little beige Mac didn't make the cut.
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Your Fonts Only Look Right on Your Computer
The site looked perfect on my machine and wrong everywhere else. The sneaky reason, and how to self-host web fonts properly.
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