Day Two

Fonts

Here I will examine the legible fonts for websites.

Verdana is considered the internet's most legible font, with the Helvetica font also thought to be similar. Helvetica has the identical roundness of Verdana but when at low resolution its hard to differentiate each letter because of the apertures being close. The apertures being the gap between the letter C.

Verdana has slight open ends on the end of the letters, 'e' for example, where the tip of the letter isn't rounded up towards the top, but flicked to make it a lot more legible with small narrow font settings.

Colours

Here is the test of colours in which I will examine the schemes for web page colours.

Here is an example of using colours for a website header. They are known as Light, Dark and Medium.

LIGHT

The Light version, which is the first one, doesnt alert the eye, it just makes you strain to read the narrow font. This is bad because people will want to be able to read something with ease, and not have to move closer to the screen.

Also the images that comprehend with the header will have to work well with it, but the image here makes the image stand out, but the header put behind it metaphorically, in how its the second thing you notice, after the image.

DARK

The Dark header is the second in row. Although it does work very well with the corresponding image, it may become repetative as it could make the website look dark and unappealing when trying to work with the white and subtle grey background.

MEDIUM

Medium is classed as the best of the three, situated on the far right. The simple mix of the two Light and Dark will create a subtle colouring that works well with all backgrounds, fonts and images. It doesnt stand out as much as the Dark and it doesnt cause you to strain yourself like the Light version.