I do. Love letters, that is. The tender shape of the “s”, the strong curve of the “G”, the broad back of the “m,” all these and more draw my eye and fill my mind. Which is one of the things that makes web design so tedious.

I look forward to discovering new, beautiful, fonts. I dig through the collections of hundreds (even thousands) of fonts on the CDs at the local discount store, hunting for the one or two diamonds among the piles of garbage offered for sale.

Fonts are, after all, the “voice” of written communications. The choice of font affects the message just as the tone of voice. It’s hard to take you serious if the information you have is presented in “Comic Sans” or “Marker Felt” or the like. Similarly, royal pronouncements seem so much more royal in a black letter font.
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I know, I’m supposed to do this in the dark, then spring it on everyone as a brand new birth, but that just didn’t seem right.

I mean we all are in need of the occasional redesign, aren’t we? And we can’t hide ourselves away until our metamorphosis is complete, can we?

All of us go through our days, slowing making changes to this or that part of ourselves, growing, changing, living. Why should my blog be any different? Isn’t it more honest to keep the process open, expose the flaws and fix them, while you watch?

Starting out with a minor bit of coding and a liberal application of Photoshop to a Great Master, I’ve plopped the mess in front of you, to watch it slouch its way into existence. Together we’ll explore the good, bad and ugly of this. What works and what doesn’t?