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informationarchitects.net is the company blog at informationarchitects.net, writing about design and web. Since 2012, 32 different Hacker News readers have linked it 36 times, most often “Responsive Typography: The Basics”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (15) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link iA's blog for essays on web typography and readability, such as the 100 Easy-2-Read standard and responsive typography, often as a starting point.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 15 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Responsive Typography: The Basics6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2012-06-02
- Web Design is 95% Typography5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2012-09-19
- The 100% Easy-2-Read Standard [2006]4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-09-19
- On Like Buttons4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-05-29
- Mountain Lion's new file system3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-07-25
- Learning to See2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-03-19
What Hacker News says?
Another good resource about typography with a focus in responsive layouts http://informationarchitects.net/blog/responsive-typography-... .
Comment linking /blog/responsive-typography-the-basics/
on “Five minute guide to better typography”Submitted Web Design is 95% Typography as a story · 234 points
HN discussionhttp://informationarchitects.net/blog/ias-2006-facebook-desi... Here's an earlier (2006!) redesign by Information Architects (iA). I think this is a lot cleaner and solves the information overload problem better.
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on “A New Look for Facebook”Submitted Responsive Typography as a story · 122 points
HN discussionSo that I'm still able to read it on my 640x480 CRT screen. Backwards compatibility is serious business at Google. Joking aside, it's a 62.5% x 1.2em font size which is rendered as 12px (at least with my chromium/ff defaults). Probably too small for most readers nowadays (some would certainly agree cf. http://informationarchitects.net/blog/the-web-is-all-about-t... ).
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on “Introducing Google+ Sign-In: simple and secure, minus the social spam”Submitted Web Design is 95% Typography (2006) as a story · 46 points
HN discussionI try to keep my subscription to an absolute minimum since I like to leave some time for reading books. After a lot of culling, I'm currently subscribed to some popular feeds: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/ (general web design / dev) http://www.alistapart.com/ (long form web design / front-end) http://dailyjs.com/ (Javascript / node.js) http://createdigitalmusic.com/ (digital music / software) http://www.creativea…
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on “Ask HN: What unknown technical blogs or sites do you read?”Submitted Mountain Lion's new file system as a story · 41 points
HN discussionRegarding the type being large, iA have very good reasons for that being the case, which they outline very clearly in another article [1]. [1] http://informationarchitects.net/blog/100e2r/ "The 100% Easy-2-Read Standard"
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on “Web Design is 95% Typography”Submitted On Like Buttons as a story · 21 points
HN discussionI think the real solution lies somewhere between not doing anything and just mindlessly peppering related articles at the bottom. Something along the lines of how iA suggests publishers start using twitter[1] - the idea being you should make references to other works as part of your content , rather than an after thought. I've recently started doing this with my own posts where I will link phrases to other posts (my…
Comment linking /blog/sweep-the-sleaze/
on “World wide wasteland”Submitted Learning to See as a story · 10 points
HN discussionI think the other point of view, the anti-directory one, is well reflected in this review of OSX: http://informationarchitects.net/blog/mountain-lions-new-fil... The most notable saying is that "As soon as we have more than a handful of notions, or (beware!) more than one hierarchical level of notions, it gets hard for most brains to build a mental model of that information architecture." Here is my ranty answer: ~~…
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on “What's with this anti-directory structure movement?”Submitted Bringing Responsiveness to the App World as a story · 6 points
HN discussion>A good starter article: http://informationarchitects.net/blog/100e2r/ Somewhat ironically, I find that page a little hard to read because the background is so bright. I find reading text on HN much easier with a darker grey background.
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on “Stop Pagination Now”Submitted The 100% Easy-2-Read Standard [2006] as a story · 6 points
HN discussionyour general disdain for writers and editors It's completely justified. For example: show me where in Poltz's long career as a writer and editor that he secretly squeezed in the years of UX, design, and development experience that qualifies him to make a statement about designing user interfaces. The problem is that editors simply don't believe there is special expertise here or that it requires anything beyond thei…
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on “Stop Pagination Now”Submitted Mountain Lion’s New File System as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI recommend to check these two articles by Oliver Reichenstein about this topic, one of them he wrote about 7 years ago http://informationarchitects.net/blog/100e2r http://informationarchitects.net/blog/responsive-typography-...
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on “Stop Using Small Font Sizes”Submitted Learning to See as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYou are right, this can be useful during initial stages of the design process. Counterproductive was a poor choice of word, let me better elaborate my concern. I assume the use for this typeface is to present wireframes to the client, free of "distracting lorem ipsum". I think showing clients any web design that lacks a typographical direction is an omission of the majority of the design in most all scenarios [1] an…
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on “Keep your wireframes free of distracting Lorem Ipsum”Submitted Responsive Typography: The Basics as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHaving self-taught myself a lot about design, let me give you a few pointers. The number one rule is that you have to start paying attention to the design of everything. Don Norman's "The Design of Everyday Things" is a good start on developing this, and you really shouldn't miss it. But this applies to everything: when something's nice, figure out why. Notice typefaces, and form a mental library so you can identify…
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on “Ask HN: Independently learning design?”Submitted Sweep the Sleaze as a story · 3 points
HN discussionthis is apparently blogspam that embeds the original article from iA: http://informationarchitects.net/blog/the-web-is-all-about-t...
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on “Web Design is 95% Typography (2006)”Submitted Twitterror as a story · 3 points
HN discussionPoorly implemented here, though a sound concept when done correctly. Information Architects (the creators of iA writer) shared an interesting post [1] on responsive typography that you may find interesting. One rational for having smaller text on small viewports, in addition to saving space, is to adjust for the distance that most readers view content on their phones from. We tend to hold our phones closer to our ey…
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on “Let's avoid designing like this”Submitted Responsive Typography: The Basics as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere is actually a difference if we're talking about "adaptive layout" vs "liquid layout". In adaptive layout, the layout is adjusted in steps according to a limited number of sizes (various screen sizes, usually). While in responsive layout, the layout is adjusted continuously to every possible width.[1] When we're talking about responsive design, most example uses liquid layout. Adaptive layout, though, is arguab…
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on “Mashable's Responsive Redesign”Submitted Learning to See as a story · 2 points
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