WhatTheFont! Identify a Font. Font and Typeface Identification tools. What font is that? Ever seen a typeface (font) you like but couldn’t identify it? I once knew an Art Director who was able to identify just about any typeface I showed him. However, in recent years, even he responds with, I don’t have a clue. So where to turn? Well, rather than publishing my Art Director friend’s email address here, I’ll introduce a few resources to get you started. Although none of the following resources is infallible, they will definitely give you a head start. What The Font?! MyFonts’ What The Font is perhaps the first place to turn to. Step I: upload your sample. Step II: ensure that What The Font has correctly identified the glyphs, then hit “search”: Initially I uploaded this image, a thumbnail of the header image for this blog: and What The Font suggested, among others, Magna T Light and Freight Text Book which, to be fair, are pretty similar to Georgia.
Typophile FontShop Something else I can recommend from FontShop is the FontBook. Sample page from the FontBook. Free Font Note this by West Wind Fonts. This license can also be found at this permalink: This font was found on the internet and did not come with a license. While we try to make sure that all the fonts on fontsquirrel.com are properly licensed for commercial use, there are many fonts that have either been abandoned by their authors or the authors distribute their fonts without an explicit license. It is our opinion that if the unlicensed font is freely available for download from either the original source or from multiple free-font sites then we assume it to be safe to use the font commercially. This is no guarantee of such freedom, but there are so many unlicensed free fonts distributed by primary sources that the intentions must be read that the font is free to use how you like.
We are not lawyers and don’t pretend to be them on TV. Elizabeth Gilbert's official website. Building a Better Conference Badge. I just got back from the Economics of Social Media conference put on by Rafat Ali, Staci Kramer, and the rest of the PaidContent crew and it was really an excellent event. One-day conferences are great because there’s no filler. There’s no scrambling to populate 50 panels with people who may or may not be the best choices to speak. There’s also no deciding which of 6 rooms you want to be in every hour. One track. One room. All superstars. (Needless to say, I wasn’t a speaker.) For Rafat’s first conference, they really knocked it out of the park. The only awful thing about EconSM though — as is the case with most conferences — was the design of the conference badges. “You know what super-complicated innovation would double the amount of socializing going on in this lobby? Andy agreed. … which got me thinking about something Kottke has penned about several times in the past: what should a badge really look like?
The EconSM Badge (Typical of 99% of badges in the world) Crimes committed: Xtranormal | Text-to-Movie. Haines Gallery. Who cares if it is an innovation? - Innovat. By Yann Cramer I sometimes hear argument about whether this or that proposition represents an innovation or not: to which extent is it really new? How do we know we are the first? How different is it from this other proposition? Who cares? 40 years ago, in "Diffusion of Innovations", Everett Rogers described the life-cycle of an innovation as it journeys from innovators to early adopters, early majority, late majority, to finally reach laggards. Every second spent debating the nature of the beast is a second lost: while you talk about it, others who have a greater sense of urgency are doing it.
In "The Ten Faces of Innovation", Tom Kelley provides one of the best illustrations I have ever heard of: that of Tellme's VP of Caller Experience, Gary Clayton, receiving during a business dinner feedback from a prospect about an issue with Tellme software platform, placing a discrete phone call to his staff, and getting it fixed before dessert! The League of Moveable Type. 50 Extraordinary Creative Free Fonts for Designers | Smashing Bu. Handpicked free fonts for graphic designers with.