April 23rd, 2009 by Mister Mc
Here’s a quick reference on how to style all of your font properties (and one text property: line-height) in one rule.
font: weight | variant | style | size/line height | font-family
font: bold small-caps italic 1em/1.25 Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
For this to work, you must include font-size and the font-family (in that order). They must also be the last two values listed. If you leave out values, those values will render in their default state, ignoring inheritance and other group selectors.
Line height is optional. Note that line height doesn’t have a unit. Eric Meyer explains why.
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April 21st, 2009 by Mister Mc
I just watched Endward Tufte’s video review of the iPhone and pulled out some interesting principles of UI design and usability. The inherent challenge of a designing for a small screen is the lack of screen real estate. To overcome that challenge, Apple gives their users a high resolution screen and amazing design to mange the information. Watch the video and see for yourself how the iPhone reduces cognitive overload by keeping information on just a levels rather than deeply stacked hierarchies.
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