Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Typography and the User Interface (29 Sep 2005) One of the greatest frustrations of visual interface design can be the lack of control you have over the actual artifact. Much like Web design, you just don't know how or where the user will be looking at the interface. This can be maddening if you come from a print design background, where it is par for the course to obsess over your color swatch book (which you've made sure hasn't expired, age skewing the ink spectrum) in just the right temperature of light in order to get precisely what you had in your mind, onto the computer, onto the press, and finally onto paper. Contrast that with the software industry, where it's common for a client to say "our user base runs 800x600 through 1280x1024, some of them will still only have 256 colors, and we also need to make sure it works on a washed out projector." Article URL: http://www.cooper.com/content/insights/newsletters/2005_issue01/Typography_and_the_user_interface.asp Read 81 more articles from Cooper sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Blogging v dogging          Books about Usability | Information Architecture | Information Visualisation | Technology History This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy