Friday, September 5, 2008

Style at the NHC

I looked at http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/today with an eye towards their type style. They use a sans serif type font. On this page my eye is drawn to the main title of the page and the map showing where the active tropical systems are. They use a fairly small type size for links that doesn't stand out much, slightly larger for the tropical system names, and even larger font for regional titles. The line length is short and heading oriented.

Well, if you're still awake... Go and look at the satellite picture of Hurricane Ike. It is pretty neat looking. On the left, Storm info -> Satellite -> Hurricane Ike Floater visible or IR.

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