A couple of weeks ago I posted Realistic Looking CSS3 Buttons, in which I tried to make awesome-looking CSS3 buttons that required no extra markup. For people who like more code and less talk, the end of the post has the link to the demo. As awesome as they were, they required an explicit width. […]
April 19, 2010 – 11:06 am
A while back Mike Rundle posted the terrific article Crafting Subtle & Realistic User Interfaces. He clearly articulates design details which make buttons look realistic and therefore push-able. If you haven’t read it, go there, spend lots of time looking at his excellent diagrams, and then come back. Go even if you forget to come […]
I haven’t given FontFriend much attention since it was released, but I puttered around with it a bit over the weekend and figured that it deserves a proper 1.0 release now. If you’re already using the bookmarklet, you’re running the latest and greatest automatically. Features added in 1.0 include: a field for a custom font […]
March 23, 2009 – 11:22 am
I’ve been inspired by a few different articles to experiment with font stacks, but I wanted a way to quickly see how different font families looked within the context of my design right in the browser. For instance, how well does Georgia work as a fallback for Constantia? (Pretty well.) How similar are Helvetica Neue […]
February 11, 2009 – 2:19 pm
Copy and pasting from MS Word into a CMS visual editor produces a world of stylistic hurt. Some defensive CSS styles come to the rescue.