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Ultimate Guide of Web Typography Tutorials, Tips and Best Practices. Web typography is nothing but implementing typography on web page.
This is very important in order to identify oneself in the designing world. It is equally important that understanding and implementing typography successfully on your web page. This is an evolution in web designing to stand apart from all other websites. It offers many tips, tutorials, tools, guides and practices to make the better use of web typography. Those are CSS typography tutorials like typo contrast and flow, emphasizing text, snazzy pullquotes for your blog, better CSS font stacks, gradient text effect and types like emphasize on the typeface, using the grid white space balance, size does matter etc. Tips & Tutorials Create-a-letterpress-effect-with-css-text-shadowThis article describe about letterpress effect which is becoming popular in web designing. “What Font Should I Use?”: Five Principles for Choosing and Using Typefaces - Smashing Magazine.
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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 is a mixture of firm rules and loose intuition, and takes years of experience to develop a feeling for.
Here are five guidelines for picking and using fonts that I’ve developed in the course of using and teaching typography. 1. Many of my beginning students go about picking a font as though they were searching for new music to listen to: they assess the personality of each face and look for something unique and distinctive that expresses their particular aesthetic taste, perspective and personal history. Four Ways to Mix Fonts. MAKE YOUR OWN FONT. Lost Type Co-op. Famous Fonts. ALPHABET SOUP Type Founders. Best Free Fonts of 2012. It’s that time of year again, time to recap the best about the year ending and prepare for a new year.
Last week we kicked off our “Best of…” series with the Best Best Free UI PSDs of 2012. So for this week, we will show you the best free fonts we saw here in 2012. Make sure to pick your favorites to add to your library for the start of 2013. Villa Didot Blanch Arvil Manteka Metropolis Cassannet Silverfake Nougatine Magna Bariol Kocoon Light Acorn Typeface Nexa Maven Pro Sreda Oranienbaum Benthem Sahara Moby Barkentina About the Author Gisele Muller loves communication, technology, web, design, movies, gastronomy and creativity.
Related Posts 1060 shares. Font Squirrel. 26 Beautiful Free Retro Fonts. Type Hunting. 27 New Awesome Fonts And Free For Beautiful Typography. Filed Under: Fonts / Typography, Freebies by fandy January 18, 2011, 19:42 Pleased to be presenting some new fonts option and probably among those fonts not too recent, the fonts is very beautiful and high-quality like Matchbook, Franchise, Typeface Adec and others.
And better yet all this for free but please read the license agreement carefully prior to using it, some of which are only for personal use. Get the fonts! Get the idea! Perforama Calluna By exljbris Crimson Text Espinosa Nova Pompadour Numeral Set Piron Nevis Color Lines FR Hopper Lato Typeface Adec Baurete Matchbook Null Diztinta Cappuccino Serif. Nick Curtis @ typOasis. Tutorials. Create an Aged Vintage Style Logo Design in Illustrator. Follow this step by step Illustrator tutorial to create an aged vintage style logo design.
We’re going to take inspiration from generations past, when logos were hand crafted with custom lettering. To achieve the same effect in Illustrator we’ll customise existing fonts to create a old school layout of cool typography. The vintage logo we’ll be creating is based on a fictional jeans company Black Denim Co. The logo uses some of the classic design tricks from the 30’s, 40’s & 50’s to capture that old school look and is finished off with some distressed textures to represent the low-fi print techniques used by our ancestors. View the final vintage style logo design Classic logos were all about the typography.
I’ve selected the Lavanderia font, but I’m not too keen on the flat edges. The difference between the customised and the original is only subtle, but it helps create a unique design that fits the style we’re aiming for. Vintage Effects Within Illustrator. How To Create a Retro Badge/Emblem Style Logo. The retro style badge/emblem of logos is a hot trend at the moment, and it’s no surprise why – They’re super cool!
We’ve already looked at a showcase of retro and vintage style logos based on circular motifs, now let’s build our own. We’ll put the basic structure together in Illustrator, then give it that aged vintage appearance with some finishing touches in Photoshop. The logo we’ll be creating is for the totally fictional Powerhouse Gym (although I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a gym somewhere with this name!). It combines many of the typical traits of this retro/vintage theme with alternating rings of black and white as well as fine details such as the stars and dots. The text and tagline follow the circumference of the circle while the icon sits bang in the centre and gives visual feedback as to what the logo is promoting. GRAPHIC DESIGN. Graphic Design Lessons. GRAPHIC DESIGN.