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Example: Twitter stream graph

I enjoy a good graph. Quantitative information is usually the ingredient, though occasionally a good graphic designer will present qualitative data in a most interesting way. Now available though for everyday amusement: one’s personal microblog topics in graphic form. Programmers at Neoform have cleverly provided us all with a fun, and interactive, display of word frequency from Twitter post streams called –you guessed it– TwitterStream.

The web is littered with sites hiding their content with text the size of the legalese. This basic introduction I Love Typography´s covers: contrast, size, and hierarchy and space and is worth a minute of your time whether you are quite familiar with the issues or you haven´t considered the topic before.

It’s worth noting that Typography is not just about choosing a font, or even distinguishing one typeface from another. In recent experiments, trained Monkeys were able to correctly identify Helvetica 90% of the time. (A Guide to Web Typography)

Interested in more technical aspects of the subject, the subject is quite adequately covered, among other places on A List Apart