Fonts are cool

For this blogpost I’ll look at two fonts I would use and two I wouldn’t Homemade Apple is quite terrible. It’s in cursive which I really don’t like for online writing. This font is distorted so that’s even harder to read. I’m not sure why someone would want to use this font unless they want their text to be really hard to read. Montoton is a very unique font, but I would not consider that a compliment. This font is also really hard to read. Under the Google Font feature to see a full paragraph text, this text is painful to read. The text has to be really enlarged to be able to clearly read this font. Amatatic Sc is a font that I think works. The font is in all caps, which I usually don’t like for fonts. What this font does effectively is make the text appear as all caps but not look like it’s yelling at you. I wouldn’t use this text in a paragraph but it might work somewhere nice on a website. Inconsolata is a simple font, I prefer simple fonts. The font is easy to read and not too bold or large. I would use this font in a website.

Let's get interactive

While researching interactive websites I found https://www.jasondavies.com/. Jason Davies as self described on the site is a “ freelance software engineer looking for challenging data visualisation projects”. He makes a lot of different types of maps and graphs. Most of them are quite mathematically or scientifically complex, I don’t know what most of them mean but they are visually stunning. https://www.jasondavies.com/maps/voronoi/airports/ is the map that I originally found. The airports map is very unique, he uses a voronoi diagram on his globe which is a mathematical map I had never heard of before. The map is interactive and very mentally stimulating. Each black dot represents one of the world’s airports, if you put your mouse over the dot you can see what airport it is. The map because of the voronoi design can sometimes be hard to make out close up. The map can move like Google Earth, around and in and out.  This map  represents a really cool interactive design on the web.