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Successfully designing a monochrome site can be a tricky deal, especially when we seem to be drowning lately in a sea of never ending eye candy effects. Perhaps that is exactly why the new Carsonified site manages to stand out so well with its combination of one-color illustrations and large, decorative type.

An experiment in progress that promises to deliver a complete type family with an x-height of just 3 pixels while maintaining readability.

The long-time undeniable web-safe stars, Verdana and Georgia, are due for a complex makeover to be released sometime next year. Combined with the more recent developments in web typography, one can only hope this will bring forth a new era for web designers.

The following can serve as a basic checklist for every designer to keep in mind when it comes to typography.

Michael Faber experiments with everyone's most hated font, Comic Sans, with some very interesting results.