Making Nice Web Type

My name is Tim Brown. I'm designing Nice Web Type's tumblelog from scratch.

FYI, I'm now applying design changes to (and flowing live content into) Nice Web Type tumblelog. Still writing about the making here, but go there for visual status.

Hurry up!

Just received Dan Cederholm’s new book. Now hurrying to get this redesign to minimum viable launch, so I can comb through all the markup and HTML5ify it, then read Dan’s book and apply some finishing touches.

Renamed sidebar stuff from “Projects and other work” to “See also,” and added Twitter/Dribbble callouts. Done! Got rid of lame stickynote-style boxes just above notes & bookmarks. Done! (For now. Will probably revisit and make less lame. It’s a good spot for showing my latest work.) Added a brief footer to long-form posts (an ask link, and tags). Done!

Next up (probably) is some sort of very basic footer, and then (did that) either attention toward the many other kinds of pages involved in Tumblr theming … or some code cleanup. Either way, it’s coming together nicely.

1 year ago

My name is Tim Brown. I'm designing Nice Web Type's tumblelog from scratch.