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“Cure for the Common Font” — A Web Designer’s Introduction to Typeface Selection | Typography Commentary | Typographica
Now that web designers suddenly face the challenge (and delight) of choosing fonts from an ever-growing selection, we thought it’s a good time to recommend some basic principles for making wise type choices. The slides from each of our four quick presentations are below, as well as audio generously provided by SXSW. If you’re short on time and feel like you know the fundamentals, skip ahead to the second half of the session — I think the Q&A is as useful as our prepared stuff. Of course, an hour is hardly enough time to deliver what one can get from the first day in a good Type 1 course, and as I listen to the audio I cringe at all the crap I missed or said poorly, but I think we did a decent job of introducing some concepts that will launch young designers more confidently into the new typographic web.
Typography-Based Designs of Music Album Covers – Inspiring Examples | Inspired Magazine
Often, all that’s needed to create a killer album cover is unique and inspired typographical elements. There are various examples of both great classic and modern album covers already released by music producers. However, since most people have already viewed these album covers at some point during their lives, it’s often much more interesting to view the unique approaches up and coming graphic designers have taken with redesign projects of top album covers. As such, here are 12 inspiring examples of typography-based album covers – some are redesigns, some are the originals. The combination of grunge-inspired typography and great texturing are what make this such a great album cover design. The unique textures help to draw in viewers and the bright colors are what hold their attention.
30 New Free High-Quality Fonts - Smashing Magazine
Every now and then we look around, select fresh high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually time you should be investing in your current projects. We search for them and find them so that you don’t have to. In this selection, we’re pleased to present Piron, Nobile, St Marie, Code, Arcus, Crimson Text, Quadranta, Juice, Prociono, Mr Jones, Ibarra Real and various useful symbol fonts.
Type Tips—short, quick tips on all things web typography from Harry Roberts of CSS Wizardry
Range left, ragged right # This is the ideal alignment for type on the web—left aligned and unjustified—due to the inability to viably control individual letters and words. Justified type is often a poor choice, because rivers are easily created in the text. The above image illustrates how justified text can create unsightly ‘rivers’ in text. If however you do want to justify your text, you may need to rejig your copy until all rivers are gone, or at least aren’t noticable.
Vector Graphics on the Web Using Fonts
This page uses css3 features which your browser does not support. Supported browsers include: Firefox. Safari, Chrome, Opera, and the beta of Internet Explorer 9. Internet Explorer 8 and below support @font-face, and the ui icons will work, however the gradients, rounded-corners, and other css3 features the illustration page uses are not supported.
Typetester – Compare fonts for the screen
Due to variety of extensions for Firefox available, some extensions could break some Typetester’s functions. Please do report troubles . If possible, provide a list of installed extensions.The Problem with Web Fonts | Codrops
The problem with web fonts is that nobody wants to use the ‘safe’ fonts and you need as much live text on your site as possible. So what’s a designer to do? Fortunately or unfortunately there are plenty of options. Unique fonts are awesome and up until a year or two ago the only way ...