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Articles by Topic: Fonts

  • Free Fonts Of The Month: Freebooter Script, Cora Basic

    Free Fonts Of The Month: Freebooter Script, Cora Basic

    Every now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current... More... 32 Comments

  • Free Fonts Of The Month: GrauBlau, Nevis

    Free Fonts Of The Month: GrauBlau, Nevis

    Every now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current... More... 44 Comments

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  • 60 Brilliant Typefaces For Corporate Design

    60 Brilliant Typefaces For Corporate Design

    Typography is more than being legible and looking good. Among other things, effective typography manages to achieve two important objectives: a) to create an appropriate atmosphere and enable users to develop trust toward the site and b) to make sure visitors... More... 82 Comments

  • Free Fonts Of The Month: FF Unit, M+ Outline, GeoBats

    Free Fonts Of The Month: FF Unit, M+ Outline, GeoBats

    Every now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current... More... 48 Comments

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  • Breathtaking Typographic Posters

    Breathtaking Typographic Posters

    You can't design without type. However, yon can use only type (or mostly only type) to create breath-taking designs. In fact, many graphic designers and artists take exactly this route to communicate their ideas through their works. The results are sometimes... More... 142 Comments

  • Free Fonts Of The Month: Advent Pro, Telegrafico

    Free Fonts Of The Month: Advent Pro, Telegrafico

    Every now and again we take a look around, select fresh high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current projects. We search... More... 71 Comments

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  • Free Fonts Of The Month: Newcastle, Anziano

    Free Fonts Of The Month: Newcastle, Anziano

    Every now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current... More... 54 Comments

  • Free Fonts Of The Month: Relato Sans, Droid Family

    Free Fonts Of The Month: Relato Sans, Droid Family

    Every now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current... More... 32 Comments

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  • Typography In Motion

    Typography In Motion

    In most designs typography is used to present information in a rather static way — after all, it has to be read by users. However, it doesn't have to be like this. What effects can be achieved if typography is set in motion? What happens if letters are... More... 74 Comments

  • 40+ Excellent Freefonts For Professional Design

    40+ Excellent Freefonts For Professional Design

    The importance of typography in design can't be overestimated. The accuracy, precision and balance of geometric forms can give letters the elegance and sharpness they deserve. Besides, elegant fonts can help to convey the message in a more convenient way. In... More... 400 Comments

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  • Free Fonts Of The Month: Moderna, Mido, Liberation

    Free Fonts Of The Month: Moderna, Mido, Liberation

    Every now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current... More... 65 Comments

  • Free Fonts of the Month: Revalo, Nadia Serif, Qlassik

    Free Fonts of the Month: Revalo, Nadia Serif, Qlassik

    Sometimes web design is just about beautiful typography. Used with a profound understanding of white space, basic typographic principles and usability heuristics, it can sufficiently highlight the main sections of the site and its key-elements. Font size of... More... 68 Comments

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  • Smashing Freefont and Wordpress-Theme

    Smashing Freefont and Wordpress-Theme

    As our Smashing First Anniversary celebration ends, we'd like to wrap up our event with two further presents for each and every one of our readers. In August we've asked Jos Buivenga, a Dutch typo-designer who has created profesional freefonts such as Delicious... More... 237 Comments

  • Free Fonts of the Month: FF Good, Segoe UI

    Free Fonts of the Month: FF Good, Segoe UI

    Every now and again we take a look around, select "fresh" high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current projects. We... More... 21 Comments

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  • 80 Beautiful Typefaces For Professional Design

    80 Beautiful Typefaces For Professional Design

    You don't like to scroll? Be prepared. (We warned you.) Every now and again designers stumble upon the very same problem: the choice of a unique and beautiful typeface which manages to fulfill three basic tasks. Support the corporate identity, enrich the... More... 310 Comments


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Footers can be a place where a designer can let his creative juices flow a little more freely. Christian Watson shows 76 excellent footer designs. More footers.

Footers

Ross Johnson discusses 8 forgotten fonts you may use in CSS. Among them are Palatino Linotype, Century Gothic, Copperplate and Gill Sans — apparently, these fonts are installed on a variety of operating systems.

Palatino

How creative can a table of contents be? Designobserver presents Thirty Tables of Contents. The collection includes excerpts from the books by Philip Larkin, Philip Roth, Paul Rand and Jan Tschichold.

Table of Contents

A set of 18 splendid and colorful looking 3D RSS-Icons. They are done with 3d Studio Max. JPG.

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In Font Clock 12 different fonts are printed within the mechanism of a clock, providing a random, mixed display of graphic language within a single time piece. Designed by Sebastian Wrong.

Font Clock

One pixel notched corners as used by Google Analytics. Instead of each option being boxed in a clickable rectangle, there is a 1px notch in each corner. It's not necessarily a curved corner, but it is a little softer than a normal box. Nice little trick.

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Hartija is a CSS print framework which is an attempt to unite best CSS printing practices into one single CSS-file.

Rather than standard website templates, a free admin template is nearly impossible to find. This is an admin template which you can use for web applications like online-shops or CMS.

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