Notable » Visuals http://notable.csaetre.com Christine Sætre Thu, 10 May 2012 20:00:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Visual Display of Qualitative Information http://notable.csaetre.com/2008/07/19/visual-display-of-qualitative-information/ http://notable.csaetre.com/2008/07/19/visual-display-of-qualitative-information/#comments Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:45:21 +0000 Christine Sætre http://csaetre.wordpress.com/?p=37 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 [...]]]> twitterstream_july19

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.

]]> http://notable.csaetre.com/2008/07/19/visual-display-of-qualitative-information/feed/ 0 A Guide to Web Typography http://notable.csaetre.com/2008/07/15/read-a-guide-to-web-typography/ http://notable.csaetre.com/2008/07/15/read-a-guide-to-web-typography/#comments Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:32:55 +0000 Christine Sætre http://notable.csaetre.com/?p=166 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.

[...]]]> Helvetica, I love TypographyThe 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

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