Small & Simple Thoughts

Saying I’m late to the party would be an understatement. I only just discovered Richard Rutter‘s adaptation of a book titled The Elements of Typographic Style. Richard has titled the web version Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web. I have been painfully aware lately on the need to improve my typographic prowess. Finding this site is a two-edged sword. It illustrates in sharp contrast exactly how much I have to learn, but at the same time provides me with a way to do just that. I raise my raise my mouse to Richard Rutter and to Robert Bringhurst, the original author.

I usually use Photoshop as my main tool for mocking up websites. By a twist of fate, I’ve been using Illustrator instead on my most recent project. I was becoming frustrated by my inability to create gradient masks in Illustrator – something I do in Photoshop all the time without thinking about it. Turns out it’s very easy to do in Illustrator – CreativeIQ shows you how.