Posts Tagged ‘Fonts’
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Mind Your En And Em Dashes: Typographic Etiquette
- August 15th, 2011
- 119 Comments
An understanding of typographic etiquette separates the master designers from the novices. A well-trained designer can tell within moments of viewing a design whether its creator knows how to work with typography. Typographic details aren’t just inside jokes among designers. They have been built up from thousands of years of ...
Read more...New High-Quality Free Fonts
- August 2nd, 2011
- 50 Comments
Every now and then, we look around, select fresh free high-quality fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually time you should be investing in your projects. We search for them and find them ...
Read more...How to Choose a Typeface
- March 24th, 2011
- 58 Comments
Choosing a typeface can be tricky. The beauty and complexity of type, combined with an inexhaustible supply of options to evaluate, can make your head spin. But don’t be baffled — and don’t despair. While there are no easy-to-follow rules on how best to choose a typeface, there are many ...
Read more...The @Font-Face Rule And Useful Web Font Tricks
- March 2nd, 2011
- 67 Comments
The possibility of embedding any font you like into websites via @font-face is an additional stylistic device which promises to abolish the monotony of the usual system fonts. It surely would be all too easy if there was only one Web font format out there. Instead, there’s quite a variety, ...
Read more...25 New Free High-Quality Fonts
- December 17th, 2010
- 130 Comments
Every now and then we look around, select fresh free high-quality fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually time you should be investing in your projects. We search for them and find them ...
Read more...“What Font Should I Use?”: Five Principles for Choosing and Using Typefaces
- December 14th, 2010
- 126 Comments
For many beginners, the task of picking fonts is a mystifying process. There seem to be endless choices — from normal, conventional-looking fonts to novelty candy cane fonts and bunny fonts — with no way of understanding the options, only never-ending lists of categories and recommendations. Selecting the right typeface ...
Read more...Best Practices of Combining Typefaces
- November 4th, 2010
- 129 Comments
Creating great typeface combinations is an art, not a science. Indeed, the beauty of typography has no borders. While there are no absolute rules to follow, it is crucial that you understand and apply some best practices when combining fonts in a design. When used with diligence and attention, these ...
Read more...Review of Popular Web Font Embedding Services
- October 20th, 2010
- 119 Comments
Even though @font-face was introduced in the CSS2 spec in 1998, it wasn’t until this past year that all in-use web browsers added support for it. This year we’re seeing a wave of web font services being marketed, and this could have a profound impact on web typography. Web font services, ...
Read more...30 New Free High-Quality Fonts
- August 12th, 2010
- 125 Comments
Every now and then we 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 time you should be investing in your current projects. We search for them and find ...
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