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Adjusting Image Width in HTML

Creating a good HTML email is hard — and even harder when you want it to be responsive, so that it conforms to both desktop and mobile devices. Much has been written and taught on the subject (such as this course by Chris Converse), but we generally get around the whole issue by using a […]

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Finessing the Details of Type: Registered, Trademark, & Copyright Symbols

Every designer and typesetter at one time or another needs to use one or more of these three symbols: registered, trademark, and copyright. What might seem like a tiny legal detail needs to be typeset thoughtfully in order to be legible, readable, and not draw undue attention to itself. If you just accept the default […]

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Designing Business Cards, Part 3

This article is the second in a series in which I’ll use business cards to show how features in photographs can cue design decisions that more powerfully combine image with text. Don’t miss part 1 and part 2. Example #3: The car dealer Even photos without faces or hands provide cues for layout and typography. This […]

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