designing effective web sites is all about trends. you need to see what others are doing before you make your move. one of the hottest trends right now in typography (or fontography for the more cultured among us) is taking those grimy, dirty grunge fonts and sprucing them up a bit. kind of a hotwired meets raygun meets june cleaver approach.

implementation is quite simple: pick your favorite grunge font (the messier the better - if it is nearly unreadable, great), choose a fairly large point size, and then add the dayglow color of your choice. bright reds, oranges, yellows, and greens are especially popular right now.

here's an 0sil8 splash page i came up with using two grunge fonts and a two color combo of a dayglow pink and yellow.