Reading Design

This article was interesting.

The last time that I was really taught about font, etc., was when I attended a newspaper camp during high school. Briefly, I remember my teacher instructing us about basic fonts on the last day of class. I didn't understand at the time, and am still just barely grasping the concept, of how and why font can be such an important design element.

I've had a little experience with programs like InDesign, but the work that I did was so starkly different from the type of things that we are doing now, that it hardly seems valuable.

I appreciated the tips that the author put at the end of his article, for instance, "letters are not pictures of things, but things," and "words are not things, but pictures of things." It's a strange concept to think about, but I think it makes sense overall... I'm just trying to understand how I can incorporate this into websites that I will be designing for this class.