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Top Ten Web Typography Sins

Top Ten Web Typography Sins

By Steven D.While many designers have been quick to embrace web standards, it's surprising how often the basic standards of typography are neglected. Here are ten deadly sins to avoid in your web typography:1. Using hyphens instead of an em dashIf you need to interrupt yourself, do it with an ...

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Free Fonts Of The Month: Fertigo Pro, FF Nuvo

Free Fonts Of The Month: Fertigo Pro, FF Nuvo

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 for ...

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Free Fonts Of The Month: Anivers, Gentium, Fresco

Free Fonts Of The Month: Anivers, Gentium, Fresco

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 for ...

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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 projects. We search for ...

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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 projects. We search for ...

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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 get the main message of the site and (if ...

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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 projects. We search for ...

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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 crazy, sometimes artsy, sometimes beautiful, but often just different ...

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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 for ...

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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 projects. We search for ...

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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 projects. We search for ...

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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 suddenly floating, ...

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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 professional freefont Delicious to design a special typeface dedicated to the Smashing ...

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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 fact, while there are many excellent professional fonts (we’ve ...

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50 Useful Design Tools For Beautiful Web Typography

50 Useful Design Tools For Beautiful Web Typography

Typography is elegant when it is attractive and communicates the designer’s ideas. When chosen wisely and used carefully, it can be very effective in supporting the overall design. Designers are always exploring different techniques with type: some use images or sIFR to produce very beautiful typography, while others prefer CSS ...

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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 visual appearance and is compatible with the overall design. ...

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Top Ten Web Typography Sins

Top Ten Web Typography Sins

By Steven D. While many designers have been quick to embrace web standards, it’s surprising how often the basic standards of typography are neglected. Here are ten deadly sins to avoid in your web typography: 1. Using hyphens instead of an em dashIf you need to interrupt yourself, do it with an ...

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19 More Free Quality Fonts

19 More Free Quality Fonts

Over the last days we’ve decided to take a look at new fonts and choose the most beautiful ones. In fact, many new fonts occured – some of them just weren’t available for download one year ago, some of them were created over the last 12 months. The results are ...

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30 Brilliant Typefaces For Corporate Design

30 Brilliant Typefaces For Corporate Design

Designing a beautiful, legible typeface is hard work and takes time and patience. The type family has to convey a message clearly and effectively, regardless of the setting in which it is used. Of course, thousands of freely available fonts are out there, and some free fonts are very impressive. ...

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Fantastic Typography Blogs For Your Inspiration

Fantastic Typography Blogs For Your Inspiration

By Joel Reyes Some say that web design without typography is like an orange without its peel, it just isn’t complete. Typography encompasses the reality of effective web design and achieves success in creating web page identity, eye-catching sites, and the enhancement of visual appearance. Typography is much more than the “art ...

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Typographic Design Patterns and Best Practices

Typographic Design Patterns and Best Practices

Even with a relatively limited set of options in CSS, typography can vary tremendously using pure CSS syntax. Serif or sans-serif? Large or small font? Line height, spacing, font size and padding… The list goes on and on. To find typographic design patterns that are common in modern Web design and ...

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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 suddenly floating, ...

Read more... | 100 Comments
Beautiful High-Quality Free Fonts For Your Designs

Beautiful High-Quality Free Fonts For Your Designs

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 for ...

Read more... | 97 Comments
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 crazy, sometimes artsy, sometimes beautiful, but often just different ...

Read more... | 96 Comments
15 Fresh High-Quality Free Fonts

15 Fresh High-Quality Free Fonts

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 for ...

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Free Fonts Of The Month: Myndraine, Museo Sans

Free Fonts Of The Month: Myndraine, Museo Sans

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 for ...

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15 Beautiful High-Quality Free Fonts

15 Beautiful High-Quality Free Fonts

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 for ...

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