{"id":6,"date":"2006-02-01T21:03:39","date_gmt":"2006-02-02T04:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gmu.mossiso.com\/697\/?p=6"},"modified":"2006-02-01T21:03:39","modified_gmt":"2006-02-02T04:03:39","slug":"whats-the-deal-with-typography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mossiso.com\/2006\/02\/01\/whats-the-deal-with-typography\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#039;s the deal with typography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Post for February 7, 2006<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the deal with typography? one may ask.  It&#8217;s all just words on a page, or screen. Does it even matter?  Here are some thoughts as I read through the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archiva.net\/hist697ay06\/hist697ay06_schedule.html\">class readings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong> From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alistapart.com\/stories\/typography\/\">A List Apart<\/a> (nice site change, by the way):<\/strong><br \/>\n<code>Particularly in a medium that invites a thousand distractions, anything that we as web developers can do to maintain the reader\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s focus and keep her eyes moving smoothly over our text can only benefit our content.<\/code><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a good point.  Some web sites are tooooooo busy.  Anything to focus the reader&#8217;s eyes on that which is most important.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/library\/review\/071600footnotes-review.html\">NY Times<\/a> article didn&#8217;t seem to have too much on the corrolation of links and footnotes.  It was more of &#8220;footnotes are out because of links&#8230; here&#8217;s a history about links and why links are important.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Post for February 7, 2006 What&#8217;s the deal with typography? one may ask. It&#8217;s all just words on a page, or screen. Does it even matter? Here are some thoughts as I read through the class readings. From A List Apart (nice site change, by the way): Particularly in a medium that invites a thousand &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mossiso.com\/2006\/02\/01\/whats-the-deal-with-typography\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What&#039;s the deal with typography<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-school-work"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wosP-6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mossiso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mossiso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mossiso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mossiso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mossiso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mossiso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mossiso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mossiso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mossiso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}