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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... 17 Comments
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Sexy, Bold And Experimental Typography
Sometimes typography is all you need to communicate your ideas effectively. Graphics can support the type or type can support the graphics, but to deliver the message precisely, you need to make sure your type is expressive enough, your design is distinctive... More... 85 Comments
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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
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
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Friday Freebies: Font, Icons and Wallpapers
Free stuff always comes in handy. Particularly if it offers a high quality one would usually expect from a quite costly commercial product. The latter holds particularly when it comes to typefaces and icon packs. On the other hand, when you are looking for some... More... 66 Comments
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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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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.
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.
A set of 18 splendid and colorful looking 3D RSS-Icons. They are done with 3d Studio Max. JPG.
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.
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.
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.
Fully Personal Interface research is a survey where people are questioned about their interface preferences. Results: labels and icons should be placed on the left, horizontal menus are more popular than vertical ones.
