Analysis Poll Week 8

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The poll question for this week is "What is the best font for the cover letter?". Above is a pie chart that shows the overall result of the poll. The total number of votes for this week's poll is 1 vote.

Here are the options and their respective results:

Courier - 0 % ( 0 Votes)

Times New Roman - 100% ( 1 Votes)

Bell MT - 0% ( 0 Votes)

Tahoma - 0% ( 0 Votes)

Times New Roman has 1 vote while the other option such as Courier, Bell MT and Tahoma has no vote.

Times New Roman font is a Serif Typeface. It is clear and eases the readers reading. Times New Roman is suitable to be used in drafting mails and newspaper. Besides Times New Roman, Times also a one of the variation of a theme from the Times family, its various differences developed between the versions marketed by Linotype and Monotype.

Courier fonts are not a True Type font. It is suitable to be used in programming coding. Courier has its disadvantage which is, it cannot be used in the Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Other than that, it does not look as good as it has more whitespace between lines and its words like typewritter.

Bell MT fonts is a Serif font, it will become bolder when the readers capitalize the text. This fonts is similar to Times New Roman fonts. Basically, Bell font family can be used for books, magazines and long articles.

Tahoma is a humanist Sans Serif Typeface. It is similar to Verdana fonts. Tahoma has a narrower body and tighter letter spacing. The fonts gives the bold look without having to bold the font. The font can be counted as double pixel width.

The due day of crossword puzzle contest

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Those interested in taking part in the crossword puzzle contest must enter the contest before 12pm today. The winner of the crossword puzzle contest will be announced on 25th March 2011(Friday).

Podcast- Six Tips to make Typography Attractive by Gino Lim & Man Fai

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Contest Release

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Guess what? Our blog contest have started by now, all of you may able to join the contest by going to the link that we provide. The whole processed of the contest will be start by visit the website http://etypocontest.dasfree.com/. Second register an account (remind all the information must be real else it will be void the one of the rule of contest). After complete the process of register the webpage will automatic guide you to the login page, just sign up and begin the contest. And further information you may either drop on the comment box or email to gino.iblog@gmail.com.

Analysis Poll Week 7

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Day a passing so far, is again for the time of showing the poll result. As the poll was post up on the last week is about the topic of “Do the user want our blog to provider more available free fonts to download?” with the result of the 6 total votes was vote YES, zero user going for NO and also the Other. As agree from the majority of the user was votes yes, our blog has decide to update new free fonts to download from every of the week once.

Beside that, I like to inform again our e-typography blog will going has the week contest that will be coming soon on the latest event and wish you may bring away the prize from our e-typography.

Any further information you cloud like to know, you may either can e-mail us at gino.iblog@gmail.com or post on the below comment box, we will get back to you as fast as possible that we can. 

Crossword Puzzle Contest

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We as the developer of e-Typography announce that the crossword puzzle contest has begin this week as mentioned in the last post. The time you were waiting for has begin. Do you think you can complete the crossword puzzle? Hurry up and get started!!!!

All crossword puzzle questions are base on Typography and some of the clues can be obtained from our previous post. It is the time to let the readers know more about what Typography is and how Typography contributes in your daily life while participating in the contest.

Event: Typography Crossword Puzzle Contest

Contest Duration: 18th – 22th March 2011

Contest Deadline: 23th March 2011, GMT+0800, 0000

Date of Announce Winner: 23th March 2011

Prize: Mystery Gift

Winners name will be announced in our e-Typography blog post on 23th March 2011. To claim their prize, winners need to show their particular information to proof that he/she is the owner. For a complete contest terms and condition, please refer to http://e-typo.blogspot.com/2011/03/new-event-coming-soon-in-our-blog.html or http://sn.im/27e2uy.

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Common mistakes in typography

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Users and designers need to understand the importance of good type skills and try avoiding some of the common mistakes. Below are some common mistakes used in type design/layout that can make a large impact in the effectiveness and appearance of the designs.

1. Do not distort typefaces
Some users tend to enlarge or reduce the strategically designed typefaces by stretching, squashing, etc? This takes away the legibility but also removes the purpose of why the typeface was designed the way it was.

2. Bombarded with too many typefaces
With all the free fonts out there, designers tend to use too many "less than quality" typefaces without any purposes on the design. Generally, typeface Helvetica is known for being widely versatile because of the quality of the typeface. It can be used in many of ways and under various conditions.

3. Apostrophes versus Quotation Marks
A common mistake in typography is the use of apostrophes instead of quotation marks. Many people get the two confused, using double apostrophes instead of actual quotation marks.

4. Lengthy Lines of Text

Too many long lines on a page not only making reading difficult but and also causing eye fatigue. Readers are forced to over their heads and eyes more often from one line to the next. Best to keep lines of text under 50 characters long.

5. Printing similar values of colour on top of each other

Sometimes users and designers did not the appropriate colour contrast for text and background. As above, printing a medium blue text on top of a medium brown box. This makes the design unappealing, and it makes it hard on the eyes. It also creates a muddy effect. Unlike the top one, the bottom picture has a better contrast in colour therefore making it more attractive.


References :
Common Typography Mistakes: Apostrophes Versus Quotation Marks[Online], Retrieved 15^thMARCH 2011.
URL : http://webdesignledger.com/tips/common-typography-mistakes-apostrophes-versus-quotation-marks

10 Common Typography Mistakes[Online], Retrieved 15^thMARCH 2011.
URL : http://www.thedesigncubicle.com/2008/12/10-common-typography-mistakes/