This is SUCH a good idea! Love it :-)
Fancy Print?
We are addicted to branding. And if you have your own brand, or are responsible for creating or managing someone else’s, you should be, too. Why? Because your brand is everything.
When a company spends countless hours and dollars to develop a brand, most take the next step and ensure that the brand communicates their message through other media like business cards, flyers, websites and online ads. Yet, we were surprised to find that so many companies neglect to ensure their brand remains consistent when a user visits their website to print an article, service offering or mission statement. Why – after all that time and money – would you allow your brand to degrade to unstyled default serif fonts, large text and blue links?
We don’t just like print, we fancy it. That’s why we’ve launched printFancy.com
printFancy is a gallery for websites in print. It showcases and honors websites and companies that take the extra step to maintain their brand across all areas. We acknowledge the small things. It’s not about looking like the website; it’s about making sure that your user prints what they wanted to print – without any information that offers no benefit, like form fields and navigation.
This isn’t a new concept, just an underused one. It’s our hope that through this site, designers, developers and business owners will be inspired to print fancy.
Resources
- Eric Meyer’s – Print Different
- A List Apart’s – Going to Print
- Smashing Magazine’s – Printing the Web
Spotlight
We didn’t want to scour the Internet for examples of websites that print fancy, but we will say this: It was hard finding the few we’ve spotlighted. Surprisingly, many large, commercial websites – and even sites for design agencies – print ugly. These though, are fancified.
- Zeldman Presents – Featured
- Snook.ca
- Apple
- Web Designer Wall
- nclud
In effort to spotlight others, we invite you to submit a fancy printed website for the gallery.
Join the Discussion
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Paul Annett
October 5th, 2009
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Ian Tearle
October 21st, 2009
Yet when i print a page on that website, I get the comments and input boxes plastered all over the second page. Practise what you preach should surely come to play when you are trying to encourage designers to print fancy?
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Antoine E Butler Sr
October 21st, 2009
@Ian, right you are. A tad bit of an oversight I’d agree. Thanks for the heads up.
The site was originally planned to be void of comments and ad space completely. The addition of such things post launch, were neglected to be hidden in the print style sheet.
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