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Forty Media has an excellent list of predictions for web design in 2005.

If you are into web design, this is a must read.

Here are some examples:

Colors

Color of the year: Brown

Tech grays and blues take a sabbatical; may not be back soon.

Pure red (the “new blue” of the past few years) falls into disfavor.

Designers are feeling confident—lots of bold colors this year.

Lots of “in-between” colors (yellow-greens, red-oranges, etc.) used to achieve fresh looks.

Web-safe palette is at last widely understood to be obsolete; Web-smart palette takes over.

Typography

Designers realize that Verdana is ugly; most stop using it.

The novelty of Georgia as a body text type wears off; still used for headings.

Arial dominates as the body text typeface for the year; despite much disdain for this overused font, it provides some needed relief from the overuse of Verdana.

Heading text increasingly done in serif typefaces, especially with sIFR.

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