Comments on: i love typography

By: Adam Kayce

Adam Kayce — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:26:22 +0000

Never mind — figured it out.

(in case you’re curious… it’s easier not to break up the php, but simply create three php calls, and enclose one, two, or all three of them in various span classes. Then, style away.)

By: Adam Kayce

Adam Kayce — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:15:13 +0000

One question, though: How’d he get the date to show in a different CSS class? I’m just wanting to learn how to insert a span inside a php statement (assuming that’s how it’s done…).

By: Min Tran

Min Tran — Wed, 21 May 2008 06:12:25 +0000

Very nice write-up, Hamish. I really enjoy this review. It’s alway safe to use “”Lucida Sans Unicode” because this font is pre-installed on both Windows and Mac. Nice try with the “fonts of the month” sidebar. The new navigation is a huge improvement, everything is well-aligned and more catchy now.

By: Benek

Benek — Sun, 18 May 2008 23:32:09 +0000

The new top menu is great. Huge improvement to the one part of the site that really bugged me. Well done!

By: Adam Kayce

Adam Kayce — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:42:26 +0000

Yep, love iLT. I was wondering when I’d see it show up here…

I agree with what most have said in regards to the level of busyness on the home page. And, like a gallery showing, sometimes when you first walk in, you get a bit overwhelmed (just by contrast with a design-starved street scene). But then, you grow accustomed to the art-blast of the gallery, and you acclimatize to that world.

iLT is like that for me. “Whoa, too much… wait… oh, yeah… dang, I love this.”

Great review, great site - thanks.

By: johno

johno — Thu, 15 May 2008 09:19:07 +0000

Just to add that Mark Otto has designed an alternative menu. Also some great feedback via Twitter.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/markdotto/2494360918/

By: Hamish M

Hamish M — Tue, 13 May 2008 21:22:18 +0000

Thanks for all the great comments everyone.

And thanks John, for your thoughts. We’re always are own worst critics, but design is an iterative process, and I’m sure that iLT will only get better as time goes by.

By: johno

johno — Tue, 13 May 2008 19:57:06 +0000

Thanks for the review and for the comments. Seeing iLT every day, it’s all too easy to overlook some of the problems with the site. Oddly enough, I hadn’t even noticed that I had not set a fallback for Lucida Grande.
Navigation (as others point out too) is something I really need to address. In fact, I sometimes have difficulty locating older material (and I wrote it!). The element that I’m most unhappy with is the navigation above the masthead—I hate it, yet, thus far, have been unable to replace it with something more intelligible and useful. The footer is also a non-event, and is something I really must fix; need to return to Vivien’s article on that topic.
Thanks for pointing out the headers for the monthly fonts. The alternate colour may well be a good option.

@Kyle thanks for comparing iLT to A List Apart (I’m honoured).

Well, you’ve all given me much to ponder—and for that I am in your collective debt.

Oh, and just two more things:
1. I don’t have a print style sheet (blush);
2. Re Le Monde Livre PTF (which is indeed a truly wonderful typeface from an exceptional type designer), I’d like to say thank you to Jean François for creating it, and for making the typographic landscape in which it dwells that much more beautiful.

By: Evan Meagher

Evan Meagher — Tue, 13 May 2008 19:01:54 +0000

Good review. I Love Typography is a great site.

I didn’t know about the tags and search menu. Thanks for the heads up! The people over at ITL should definitely make that more prominent.

By: Kyle Meyer

Kyle Meyer — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:14:49 +0000

I’ve always loved the lack of a logo on iLT. In a sense, the giant banner has become the logo, and anything else just wouldn’t quite fit the bill. The first time I saw iLT I fell in love with the superscript and subscript treatments within the article titles – beautiful and different.

Navigating the site beyond recent posts can be difficult, and this is probably the area that could be improved the most. There’s so much great content, but new readers won’t know the depth and quantity of it to read it all!

All that aside, iLT is an excellent resource on the level of A List Apart, and should be regular reading for anyone serious about design on the web.