173 - Five Tips for Pimping Out your Web Typography with Oliver Schöndorfer

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Web Design Business with Josh Hall
173 - Five Tips for Pimping Out your Web Typography with Oliver Schöndorfer
Mar 07, 2022
Josh Hall

Typography enthusiast Oliver Schöndorfer of PimpMyType.com shares his top tips for better web typography so that you can get better website conversion through better typography.

In This Episode

00:00 - Introduction
03:37 - Greeting to Oliver
06:41 - Typography is design
12:00 - What is a word image
15:36 - Feeling and function
17:43 - Categories for decision
25:18 - Who is the text for
28:51 - Three functions of text
33:55 - Taking the i l 1 test
35:16 - A little history
40:06 - Holy trinity of typography
42:03 - A guideline for width
47:30 - Size for a lot of text
51:24 - Headings
58:53 - A “Bold” taste
1:01:50 - Menu text
1:04:19 - Using all capital letters
1:07:51 - How many typefaces
1:09:53 - How many colors
1:13:50 - Accessibility consideration
1:17:27 - Emojis and text

Get all links, resources and show notes at:

https://joshhall.co/173