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Skout™ &8226; resources + for designers + by designers. Designers List - Great resources and websites for designers. 50 Inspirational Typographic Poster Designs. The art of the typeface, from the typographer who creates them down to the designer who meticulously meddles with settings to get them just right in their designs — from the size to the letter spacing to the line length — is a complicated one.

50 Inspirational Typographic Poster Designs

Many designers get overwhelmed just trying to get the typography right on simple websites. But here we have 50 typographic posters where the art lies in not just getting the letters right, but using them to paint the picture. These posters were made by masters of typography, and showcases the letters themselves at the forefront in a way no book or website does. Take a look at this collection of inspirational typographic poster designs for your own inspiration. Vintage Typography. "What Font Should I Use?": Five Principles for Choosing and Using Typefaces.

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"What Font Should I Use?": Five Principles for Choosing and Using Typefaces

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.

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