Articles Tagged 'font'
5 Tools to Help You Identify any Font
Salman SiddiquiThe Internet is full of gazillions of fonts that can, at times, make life tough if you are looking to find the name of a particular font. You know, those situations where you have the font but you don't have its name? You know it will work. You like it. But, you cannot use it because you don't know what it is called. Such a situation can baffle any web or graphic designer at the best of times. Thankfully, technology comes to our rescue in such a scenario. This article will list down some of the famous Font Identifying Tools that make life easy when you are stuck. Also, I will test these tools quickly to gauge their authenticity. Each time I will pick a random font from Da Font and see if these tools can identify it.
A Short Course On How To Improve Your Website’s Typography
Christian VasileTypography is one of the most difficult things to sort out when designing, especially because with the amount of typefaces a designer can use, it's almost impossible to choose the best one without spending hours on it. A simple search on Google will show you that there are hundreds of thousands of fonts, most of them even free of charge; and the number increases weekly. This means the decision is even harder to make today than it was last year. And it is not only about the typefaces available, but mostly about the skills a designer has. There are Universities that teach typography throughout years, because it is a deep field. Knowing alignment rules, kerning, hierarchy and other terms like these is crucial in making your text say something specific.
A Simple Guide to Improving Web Typography
StephanieWith the advent of much improved browsers, text rendering and high-resolution screens, technology is no longer an excuse for poor typography. In many ways typography can be elegant and an expression of the designer’s ideas when chosen wisely. Today I will not only present you with guidelines to consider in mastering typography for the web, but give you the useful tools, techniques and resources to help you achieve effective designs. Feel free to suggest any other tools or resources in the comments section.
50 Great Examples of Extremely Awesome Typography
Hilde TorbjornsenThis time we're gonna show you some truly inspiring works with text, also referred to as typography. This can be used many places; in magazines, advertisements, websites, logos and more. These great pieces will show you that there are no boundaries and that you can make almost anything with text if you have a good portion of creativity and talent.
Learn the Basics: 25+ Sites And Resources To Learn Typography
Ari SuardiyantiTypography has been practiced and used in our daily life. Range from handwriting in a pocket notebook to the big advertising billboard. It's sometimes typed using Times New Roman in 12 points for newspaper. Others use Edwardian in 26 points for their wedding invitations. When a designer decide to use the right font for the right job, the typography itself become an art.
Learning typography seems to be easy at a glance, in order to achieve a great impact from typography for graphic and web designs isn't so easy. Many designers found it as a complicated design aspects to practice.
Top 15 Resources to Download High Quality Free Fonts
Taimur AsgharTypography is itself an art , fonts are very important in our daily life, even if we realize it or not. Because fonts are every where we go. Fonts can exert the influence in the written message. To my approximations 95% of people are familiar with typography, and they have the appeal for certain desired fonts. Even if we don't know but we would still be using any way to impress others and to define our own style via using fonts of our choice. For example when we use yahoo or live messenger we prefer to use fonts, color and style other than the default.
30 Free Fonts Best for Business Logos
Peter OlexaWe all know, it's very important to choose the right font when working on a logo design. When speaking about business logos, we usually mean logos which are elegant, clean and not too fancy. So what kind of fonts should we be using? What kind of logos will make my logo look best? Instead of answering these questions, check the collection of 30 free business fonts below I put together just for this purpose.
76 Dirty, Extreme And Creative Free Grunge Fonts
Dainis GraverisGrunge, dirty, fancy typography and artworks are very popular design trend in our days, so I wanted to showcase here most popular and professionally executed fonts in my opinion. Unleash your dirty side and create some fresh design mixing font size, color, textures together - try something new if you haven't done it yet! Such fonts as these are often used in music band logos or cover designs, but I am sure you will think of your own unique approach in logo, web or graphic design! Enjoy!
40 Inspiring High Quality Typographic Wallpapers
I have always enjoyed and admired, how much simple, smart typography can tell and inspire. Simple words can sometimes tell more than amazing digital time-consuming artworks. Basically this wallpaper roundup will enjoy everybody, who likes smart, mostly minimalistic and clean typography. As always I tried to find really high quality wallpapers so almost everybody can use these. One more thing - just through research I found out surprisingly, how rare are really good typography wallpapers, which I would like to include here. Yet technically simple to create, but not easy to create in good, minimalistic and harmonic way.
65 Popular And Professional Free Fonts For Creative Typography
Some time ago I created article - 52 Really High Quality Free Fonts For Modern And Cool Design, which turned out to be very popular. But I felt like I haven't featured even a half of beautiful, professional free fonts, so I decided to continue with another article. This time I found 65 high quality fonts, where many of them are very good for font creation, creative graphic typographic works, unique web design titles and so on. But hey - we are here all becoming/experienced designers, I don't need to tell you where to use those fonts, I am here to find that stuff for you! Note - before using these fonts for commercial projects, check out creator copyrights (on their homepages, not asking me - I am just collector), because all of these fonts are free for personal use, but not all for commercial usage.
