Connecting Paper & Style

Creating or styling web pages and creating written/printed documents have many similarities and differences. Both web style and paper style aim to create a legible, well organized document. In order to do this, the types of backgrounds, whether paper or background on a web page, should be simple and contrast nicely with what ever color text, ink or pencil you are using. A busy background on a web page makes it difficult to concentrate on the text. Using black paper with grey or blue ink would also be difficult to read. The right font size is also important in both paper style and web style. Too small of text or print is difficult to read, whether on screen or on paper. Too large, or all caps text is distracting and often causes misinterpretation.

Creating documents using a web page is very different than creating something on paper. Paper documents are limited to basic text with simple pictures that can lack quality when printed. Web documents have almost limitless possibilities. Graphics, videos and links to other documents can be added and the size/amount of information that can be included on a web is much greater than the confines of paper.