Running Heads
"How to deal with those little scraps of text on a page that tell us what document we're reading, and where we are in it.
Sometimes the humblest and most inconspicuous elements of design turn out to be essential. A case in point in printed publications is the running head and its frequent sidekick, the page number. They may be humble, almost unnoticed, but if they're done right they serve as signposts, telling you, the reader, where you are. The running head is part of the roadmap to any publication."
A lot of visual trends in "Web 2.0" seem to come from a print-educated aesthetic, without the baggage of precision that once kept designers from being able to let go of the concern about exactly how someting will look on any given browser. Blog entries share have a lot in common with their print publication grandfathers, and this article covers the ever-important "running head".
Sometimes the humblest and most inconspicuous elements of design turn out to be essential. A case in point in printed publications is the running head and its frequent sidekick, the page number. They may be humble, almost unnoticed, but if they're done right they serve as signposts, telling you, the reader, where you are. The running head is part of the roadmap to any publication."
A lot of visual trends in "Web 2.0" seem to come from a print-educated aesthetic, without the baggage of precision that once kept designers from being able to let go of the concern about exactly how someting will look on any given browser. Blog entries share have a lot in common with their print publication grandfathers, and this article covers the ever-important "running head".
posted by James Young at
1:49 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home