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I'll cover three main ways that typography affects the user experience.
Further Reading
- Best font for Online Reading
- Don't Make Me Think book by Steve Krug. There's a chapter that covers designing for scanning, not reading (chapter 3 in the 2014 edition).
- Low-Contrast Text Is Not the Answer
- Contrast Checker by WebAIM
- ARIA MDN Web Docs
- Sara Soueidan's blog posts about accessibility
Resources
- Dyslexie Font A font made for people with dyslexia. Available for download and as a Chrome extension.
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connection to a brand.
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Equally just as successfully,
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it can slip away unnoticed,
as it makes reading so easy and
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pleasurable that the reader doesn't
fixate on the letter forms themselves.
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The typography communicates
without getting in the way.
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Poor typography gives people a lower
impression of a brand, product, or
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service.
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And even worse, it can make
an experience difficult or confusing.
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I'll cover three main ways that
typography affects the user experience.
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