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White Space: How to Get it ‘Right’

24. March 2009

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White Space: How to Get it ‘Right’

Space is important in layout. Space can be created by content, such as text, images, lists, logos etc, or it can be created by the space in-between content, called negative space, or whitespace. Space can be passive; a by-product of the layout process. Or, it can be active; there for a reason, to guide the [...]

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Looking at Type

27. September 2006

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Have you ever been somewhere where you couldn’t speak the local language? Surrounded by signage, newspapers, shop fronts - everywhere you look there are letters, but you don’t understand what they mean. It’s even worse if they’re not Roman characters. A couple of years ago, on my honeymoon in Thailand, I was astounded by the myriad [...]

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