Typography is introduced in the 15th
century, history suggests that grid and proportional consideration and presentable
fonts are the basic ground rules for typographic design; however, the emerge of
new and improved systems, gets the chance for today’s designers to go further
than the standard system fonts and go beyond the conventional rules to
creatively design their own personal fonts.
Typography plays a very significant role
in visual communication – perception, quality and usability of a website
design. It’s an integral part of web design that shouldn’t be taken for granted
at any cost because the correct use of typography has the power of creating or
breaking the whole feel of the web design.
Kyle Steed is an illustrative and typographic
designer, expert in lettering, hand-drawn fonts and hand-crafted illustrations. He writes and designs for his own personal
site atkylesteed.com and
is illustrating people's profile's over at 52profiles.com all while learning the art of UX
Design at Fellowship
Technologies.
He is one of the contemporary designers who
try to combine illustrations and typography in their work, aiming to express an
unique meaning or sending a message – the message intended by the artist to the
viewer.
kyle's official webpage
hand drawn icon
Kyle Steed's quote on design "Take a walk. Dance a
jig. Get some sun. Don’t take yourself to serious. Cook something ethnic. Play
the 3 chords you know on guitar. Go get coffee. Tell a bad joke, to yourself,
and laugh. Look at the way a leaf is made. Overhear someone else’s conversation.
Write it down. Remember it later. Get some sleep."
The creative font used in his design can
give the feeling of the website and an insight to the designer’s style or the
personality of the owner. It certainly adds character to the website and it can
help create a theme for the website – so nothing must be done random, every
element of the web design should work in harmony to create one great symphony
of meaning.
Rules tend to be constrictive but hopefully the conventional rules of design have instead successfully opened up our typography possibilities.
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