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New High-Quality Free Fonts. Folio web font family. Folio is a realist sans-serif typeface designed by Konrad Bauer and Walter Baum in 1957 for the Bauersche Gießerei (in English: Bauer foundry). Bauer licensed the design to Fonderie Typographique Francaise for sale in France under the name Caravelle. Like Helvetica and Univers, which were also released at the same time, it is part of the International Typographic Style and modeled after Akzidenz-Grotesk.

However, Folio is more closely modeled on Akzidenz-Grotesk than the other two, which have larger x-heights. Due to good marketing, the typeface experienced moderate success in the United States. The typeface family was extended in 1963, adding an Extra Bold weight and a Bold Condensed width. Some distinguishing features of the typeface are the capital Q's tail is centered under the figure, the uppercase J has a slight hook, and there are two versions of uppercase R, one with a straight tail and one with a curved tail. Best Practices of Combining Typefaces. Typography Is The Foundation Of Web Design. Advertisement For years you have been searching for it. You hear the question being asked in your dreams as you go on an Indiana-Jones-type-crusade to find the answer. When the answer comes to you, you know that the confetti will fall from the ceiling and the band will start playing your favorite song.

You might even get a kiss from that special someone. So what is this question? What is the secret to Web design? A tough question and one that might not have an answer. Of course typography doesn’t mean font selection. More toys means more fun though, right? I’m not being sarcastic, saying that is all you need to know for a majority of websites. Information Architects is based around strong typography. One of my all time favorite designs is A Working Library. A Working Library by Mandy Brown. Some people find design like this to be dull and boring, they feel that design should have more pop to it. Well That Isn’t Hard Blake Allen Design uses images, but with great typography. (jvb) It's done. 60 Brilliant Typefaces For Corporate Design. Advertisement 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 get the main message of the site and (if possible) become interested in the services offered on the site. Since written text is the most efficient instrument to communicate with visitors precisely and directly, the power of typography shouldn’t be underestimated.

To communicate effectively, typography requires appropriate typefaces. Last year we’ve presented 80 Beautiful Typefaces For Professional Design, a selection of excellent typefaces one should be aware of when developing web-sites. Now it’s time to update our selection with typefaces we’ve missed then and new typefaces which have been developed over the last year. Below you’ll find over 60 first-class typefaces for corporate design. Anziano A typeface for books. The future of web fonts | Features. The web type revolution began in late 2009, but it is over the last year that the discipline has matured into a far more complete tool. All web browsers are proudly boasting their typographic capabilities as CSS3 continues to both evolve and stabilise. We’ve seen the arrival of some fantastic typefaces either optimised for, or specifically designed for the screen , and we’ve also seen some pretty good screens arrive on the market.

But most of all, we’ve seen a growing confidence and finesse among web designers when it comes to using typography in increasingly striking and effective ways. As web designers, we do all of our typographic work – our typesetting in particular – in CSS. But CSS is a layer that can be peeled away, in part or in whole. It’s also a layer, not of definitive design directions, but of guidelines, hints and nudges. The web designer then, must be flexible. 001  < link rel=”stylesheet” media=”screen and (max-device-width: 480px)” href=”mobile.css” type=”text/css” />

Web Fonts. 5 Must-have Google web font families | Inspiration. Author: Steve Jenkins 11th January 2013 There are over 600 freely available fonts on the Google Web Fonts site. However, many are single weights and style. For more creativity and flexibility, a font family needs to have a variety of weights and styles to work with.

Open Sans is a humanist sans serif typeface designed by Steve Matteson, Type Director of Ascender Corp. Exo is a contemporary geometric sans serif typeface that tries to convey a technological/futuristic feeling while keeping an elegant design. Created by Santiago Orozco the Josefin typeface is geometric, elegant and vintage, ideal for titling. This font was created as part of a design project by mulitiple designers. This is Adobe’s first open source typeface family and was designed by Paul D. Did you enjoy this article? Follow our to find out about all the latest web development, news, reviews, previews, interviews, features and a whole more. 40+ Excellent Freefonts For Professional Design. Museo Slab 500 - Webfont preview. Exljbris. Dutchman Jos Buivenga already had an impressive following when he and his foundry, exljbris, joined MyFonts in 2008.

For years, his online friends and fans were able to witness and comment on the development of his typefaces on his website and download the beta versions at no cost at all. When he transformed his free site into a one-man foundry, he debuted his first commercial typeface in an unprecedented, and ultimately, very successful way. With this typeface, Museo, Jos became the first designer to offer several weights in an extended font family for free.

“I had to take into account that most people who knew me, knew me for my free fonts,” he said in his Creative Characters interview, “so my guess was that it would be best to offer more free than paid weights.” His generosity paid off. Museo became a sensational best seller on the strength of the paid fonts alone and the typeface was named one of MyFonts Top Ten Fonts of 2008. And with that, his foundry took off. Letterpress Type. Cut out With Transparency Seen in Communnication Arts Original, letterpress type sets in PSD files for use in your graphic designs. All of the characters were letterpressed on paper, scanned, isolated and optimized. Grayscale, 300 dpi transparent Photoshop files. Type sets include numbers, symbols and Spanish characters. The PSD files are suitable to be used or manipulated in Photoshop, or placed into InDesign, Illustrator or other compatible image editing software.

20 Creative Typography Free Fonts 2012. Advertisement While some of the default operating system fonts will work for design purposes, when it comes to big and bold typography, you’ll have to go outside the standard fonts. Typography fonts can draw the viewer’s attention and create a powerful visual impact for web design, print design and advertising. We’ve gathered up 20 Creative Free Typography fonts that will add a powerful impact for your designs, and best of all, they’re free to use so you can download them and start using them right away. Be sure to read each font’s licensing agreement, as some are free for commercial and noncommercial use, while others are just for noncommercial use. Enjoy! Free Font Satellite bariol GOTA Free Font Hagin Free Font Chrome Light. Novecento font family Graduate – Free Google Web Font Cosmo Path Type Pilaca Free Font CODE free font Bispo free font Manteka Glide® Font Hagin Serif Henry- free font Mosaic Leaf Spider Type Znikomit Font QumpellkaNo12 Zantroke.

Example website | Your Account. PMN Caecilia. Akzidenz-Grotesk® BQ. Perpetua. Chronicle Text. Chronicle, a “blended Scotch.” A vigorous hybrid of time-honored forms and contemporary design strategies, Chronicle Text is a new suite of high-performance text faces that brings strength and utility to the classic serif. Seriffed text faces are often casually grouped into two major divisions: wholehearted Old Styles, which vaguely reference their calligraphic origins, and steely Moderns, whose highly rational designs aspire to mathematical precision.

Old Styles are prized for their warmth, which they achieve through heavily bracketed serifs and a policy of planned inconsistencies (an Old Style’s lowercase c and o are thickest in different places, for example.) Moderns produce the opposite result — a detached, elegant simplicity — and, crucially for both typefounders and designers, their forms naturally invite endless variation in weight and width. The Style Revisited. Download DIN Next™ Rounded Medium. Archer.