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The Font Kingdom: Search, Explore, Create, and Download Fonts fo. Being a blogger, I often find design elements on the web for my posts or my blog in general.

The Font Kingdom: Search, Explore, Create, and Download Fonts fo

It’s becoming a very common experience for bloggers to know a thing or two about web design. I’m guessing it is the web that taught us to be quasi-designers by offering us lots of easy-to-use tools that help us create just about everything we need: photo-editing, widgets, logos, buttons, and yes, fonts as well. Fonts are a big focus of the Web2.0 era—they are now bigger, cleaner and smoother, especially when it comes to logos.

Can you imagine Techcrunch’s logo looking like this? It’s all dependent on font choice. Regardless of the fact that the web makes it easy for everyone to be more creative (i.e., logo above), it becomes a paradise for designers themselves who seek new tools & inspiration. MyFontbook is an online font viewer and manager based on the font available on your computer. Starting with @font-face. October 05, 2009 I’ve been using Cufón off and on since writing about font embedding back in May. It’s a great hack, but browser progress since that time has been making me feel that the native CSS @font-face rule is becoming increasingly viable.

Or, at least enough so that it seems like it’s time to start dabbling. Yes, I know of TypeKit. It’s a great idea and there are some solid reasons to consider using it. Ignoring the licensing issues for now, the problems are those of syntax and technology. If you just forget about IE for a minute then @font-face is surprisingly easy to use. Font Viewer - myFontbook.com. Type foundry. Fonts Used In Logos of Popular Design Blogs. I got in touch with a good number of design blogs with one question – What font do you use in your logo?

Fonts Used In Logos of Popular Design Blogs

I got back a hefty amount of responses and found out the rest through some top notch detective work (a special thanks goes out to all those who replied back). We’ve got quite a diverse amount of fonts to keep you interested, so have at it soldier! Woork Up – FFF Forward Outlaw Design Blog – Bleeding Cowboys DesignM.ag – Mido Vandelay Design – Nevis MyInkBlog – Yanone Kaffeesatz. Veer: Elements for Creativity. My favourite typefaces of 2008. The Best of Type This year has been a great year for type, with many new releases.

My favourite typefaces of 2008

Some of them are exceptional. Following is a list of my personal favourites of the past year. This is by no means an exhaustive list; there are, in fact, many others deserving of accolades. Compendium Difficult to imagine a best-of list with no showing from Ale Paul. I wonder what Ale Paul has in store for 2009. Newzald by Kris Sowersby, a TDC winner for his sans National, his serif Newzald is already one of my favourite serifs. Marat. 5 Must Have Sans Serif Fonts – woorkup.com. 15 Beautiful High-Quality Free Fonts « Smashing Magazine. Advertisement Every now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview.

15 Beautiful High-Quality Free Fonts « Smashing Magazine

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 them and we find them, so you don’t have to. In this selection we’re glad to present you Aller Sans, Mayberry Pro SemiBold, Quicksand, Agrafa Hairline, Sketch Rockwell, Megalopolis Extra and a couple of other high-quality free fonts. Please read the license agreements carefully before using the fonts — the license can change from time to time.

Graphic Design Inspiration a. Typography - 20+ Quality Free Sans Serif Fonts. I’ve been meaning to compile this list for a little while now.

Typography - 20+ Quality Free Sans Serif Fonts

Free Fonts Of The Month: Myndraine, Museo Sans « Smashing Magazi. Advertisement.

Free Fonts Of The Month: Myndraine, Museo Sans « Smashing Magazi

10 Beautiful and free must have Serif Fonts. If you are looking for new interesting fonts, here is a collection of ten beautiful, free and must have serif typefaces for the web and print.

10 Beautiful and free must have Serif Fonts

This collection includes Medio, Jura, Fontin, Sling, Calluna, Lido STF, Salernomi, Novello Pro, Steinem, TeX Gyre Schola. 1. Medio (download)Medio is one of my favourite fonts designed by dotcolon (the same authors of Vegur, Tenderness and Ferrum) 2. Jura (download)Jura is a distinctive yet readable serif typeface, suitable for headings and body content alike. 3. CSS Font-Sizing: a Definitive Guide. Font sizing in CSS sounds as though it should be easy. Until you try it. Many developers use the force; they tinker with the font-size property until it looks right only to find it’s different in another browser. A little understanding can go a long way… The font-size Property The font-size property can be set for any HTML tag (even if it would not normally contain textual content like br). An element will inherit the font-size of its parent unless you override it.

52 Really High Quality Free Fonts For Modern And Cool Design. I am big fan of typography myself and was surprised I haven’t done any good font collection yet!

52 Really High Quality Free Fonts For Modern And Cool Design

While doing research I was amazed how many really high quality fonts are available for free. And now with Sifr and similar tools you can use any font in your web-design actually, but if you are graphic designer you get even bigger enjoyment through such detailed and beautiful fonts. Balance between readability, elegance and use fonts with artistic approach to get best out of them, really that’s all you need to do. And by the way I am thinking about inspiring and effective typography article in soon future to show you very best examples – stay with us – get inspired and save your time because research has been done already for you!

Finally be sure to check license to these fonts, they may be free but some of them require reference or may not be used for commercial projects for free, although most of them are. You may also consider reading these articles: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Handpicked free fonts for graphic designers with. Free Fonts to Download + Premium Typefaces. Beautiful New Free Fonts For Your Designs. Advertisement Every now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview.

Beautiful New Free Fonts For Your Designs

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 them and we find them, so you don’t have to. In this selection we’re glad to present you Calluna, Andika Basic, Mentone, Sovereign Regular, Medio, Tiresias Infopoint and many other high-quality free fonts. Please read the license agreements carefully before using the fonts — the license can change from time to time. Typechart - Browse Web Type, Grab CSS.