Wordmark.it - helps you choose fonts! FontStruct | Build, Share, Download Fonts. What's Your Typeface? Have you ever wondered how popular typefaces came to be? The invention of the typefaces can be dated all the way back to the 1450s. Check out this infographic to gain a better understanding of the history and anatomy of typefaces. Whether you are a design degree student or a practicing multimedia artist, this graphic is sure to teach you something new about typography. Embed the above image on your site <a href=" src=" border="0" alt="Rasmussen College" /></a> External links provided on Rasmussen.edu are for reference only. Rasmussen College does not guarantee, approve, control, or specifically endorse the information or products available on websites linked to, and is not endorsed by website owners, authors and/or organizations referenced.
Timeline of 10 Famous Fonts [INFOGRAPHIC] | Mines Press, Inc. 29 principles for making great font combinations. By Douglas Bonneville on August 11, 2010 When it comes to making font combinations, there are principles and methods, but no absolutes. You can’t apply all the principles or ideas listed here at the same time. Just peruse this list of ideas and see what strikes you as interesting, and then pursue creating your own interesting typeface pairs! BTW: The Big Book of Font Combinations wants you to stop by and check out its samples. So many fonts, so little time... In no particular order of importance… Combine a serif and a sans serif to give “contrast” and not “concord”.
13 Important Resources for Learning How to Design Typefaces and Full Fonts. If you're serious about creating a typeface design, then you'll need some solid resources to get started. Learn effective typeface design workflows, how to take an initial spark of an idea from sketch, through Illustrator, into Fontlab, and then work your creation into a complete and custom font design. Here are multiple tutorials that show you how to create fonts in Illustrator and Fontlab, and you can also dive into articles that describe the foundation of quality type design with ample inspirational examples.
Typeface and Font Design Tutorials Designing a Typeface, With Illustrator and FontLab, from Start to Finish - Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 In this three part series Jesse Hora shows us how to design a typeface. He begins in Illustrator and works his way through to FontLab. Build a Geometric Typeface Cypher13 (now known as Berger & Föhr) show us their process in how to design a geometric font. Design an Intricate Display Font Design a Headline Typeface Develop a Themed Pictorial Font. I love Typography (iLT), devoted to fonts, typefaces and all things typographical. 60 Awesome Sites for Free Fonts : Dottony.