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There's a lot of shouting on the Internet. Sometimes it's a heated political debate. Sometimes it's a nerdy discourse on the lore of Babylon 5 . And sometimes it's Nana sending you an email in all caps "BECAUSE I CAN SEE THE LETTERS BETTER THIS WAY."
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Fount: Easy Way To Identify Web Font | Software & Utilities

Fount is a instantly easily identifies web fonts used in a web page. Fount is a bookmarklet tool for web. Go to any web site and click the Fount bookmarklet and it displays the font name, size and weight as a notification. It doesn’t requires re-activation and any number of text can be clicked repeatedly. http://blog.karachicorner.com/2012/01/fount-easy-way-to-identify-web-font/

Make yourself an Amazing Typographic Portrait

http://10steps.sg/tutorials/photoshop/make-yourself-an-amazing-typographic-portrait/ The tutorial is made after receiving a reader’s request. As we know, typographic portrait art takes a huge amount of work. Here is a much simpler version I made, which hopes to give beginners an idea on how to start. This tutorial will show how to create custom brushes and fill patterns. Also you will learn more about selection and posterize tool.
This time we’re gonna show you some truly inspiring works with text, also referred to as typography. This can be used many places; in magazines, advertisements, websites, logos and more. These great pieces will show you that there are no boundaries and that you can make almost anything with text if you have a good portion of creativity and talent. http://blog.reflexstock.com/2010/08/50-extremely-awesome-examples-of-typography/

50 Extremely Awesome Examples of Typography :: Reflex Stock Photo Blog

The Crystal Goblet, or Printing Should Be Invisible by Beatrice Warde (1900 -- 1969) Imagine that you have before you a flagon of wine. You may choose your own favourite vintage for this imaginary demonstration, so that it be a deep shimmering crimson in colour. You have two goblets before you. One is of solid gold, wrought in the most exquisite patterns.

Typo-L : The Crystal Goblet

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Typography and its Immense Importance for Your Designing

Among different elements of graphic designing , typography is an important one, which the designers usually take for granted. Typography in terms of graphic designing means to choose the kind of font type that completely blends with the design and speaks for itself as a part of that design. In technical terms, typography is the art of arranging font type into the layout of the design . http://www.dzinepress.com/2010/07/typography-and-its-immense-importance-for-your-designing/
http://www.webanddesigners.com/45-inspirational-typography-showcase/ advertisement The principle behind topography is based on the creation of a complete text by reusing identical characters. Typography to define is the art and technique of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs. This innovative art of typography began with the invention of movable type and the printing press. Typography is all about creating letter forms, selecting typefaces and arranging them on the page. This art form has a great role in the life of graphic designers so we have arranged beautiful examples of typography.

45+ Inspirational Typography showcase

Even with a relatively limited set of options in CSS, typography can vary tremendously using pure CSS syntax. Serif or sans-serif? Large or small font? Line height, spacing, font size and padding… The list goes on and on.

Typographic Design Patterns and Best Practices - Smashing Magazine

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Though there’s a broad variety of fonts available for download online, designers keep on tracing the fresh ones to enhance their design copy, a website, brochure, or even an advertisement in a brand new an’ awesome way. Still, the free stuff could not always boast of good quality – premium goodies always demand some kind of money investment. However, now it’s possible to find the appropriate font that’s free, clear, beautiful, and effective for design purposes. http://blog.templatemonster.com/2010/09/22/50-fresh-free-fonts/

50 Fresh Free Fonts of 2010

Fonts have already been among the essential materials used by designers. Whether it is a web design project or a logo design – font is the element, capable of attracting people’s attention, rendering the key idea, and communicating the necessary message . That is why, thousands of free fonts reside today in multiple online font repositories. http://www.cruzine.com/2010/06/16/100-free-fonts-library/

100 Free Fonts You Should Have in Your Library

Microsoft Windows users Click Start, Settings, Control Panel. Open the Fonts icon by double clicking the icon. Within the Fonts window you will be able to view each of the currently installed fonts as well as install new fonts. To install a font, click the File menu and select Install New Font. Locate the directory of the fonts you wish to install.

25 Free Fonts for Your Creative Projects | Phire Base - Graphic, Webdesign, Inspiration. Adobe & WP

It has been long since we posted our last free font collection (see: 20 Free Handwritten Fonts and 21 Incredible Fonts That Shouldn’t Be Free ), so we decided it’s a high time to do one more. The use of retro and vintage themes in design is still very popular, so it’s always good to have a big font collection. That’s why we handpicked 26 beautiful and stylish free retro fonts . We had a lot of fun doing the sample images, so if you decide to use some of them – please link back to DeMilked .

26 Beautiful Free Retro Fonts | DeMilked

Prof revives lost art of printing press

Professor Johanna Drucker inks her printing press as her grad-student assistant Nora Bloch looks on. Students in Drucker's new class will learn about the press and fonts this quarter. Photos by Alison Hewitt. For Professor Johanna Drucker, a font is something you store in a drawer, changing your type size happens one character at a time and double-spacing is a lead strip you can hold in the palm of your hand. Drucker is bringing her appreciation for what she calls "slow technology" to UCLA, using her own 1940s Vandercook flatbed printing press.
We’ve got a lot to thank Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and the computing world’s other leaders for. They’re responsible for some of the greatest leaps forward in communications and business in the last 30 years-and many of the biggest innovations in design, too. Without them, our industry wouldn’t be what it is today, and many of the world’s top designers wouldn’t have a platform for their work. However, there is one reason to resent these giants: their choice of fonts. In releasing mega-popular suites and catering to a broad, design-illiterate audience, leading business applications such as Microsoft Word shocked us with the overused fonts that they include standard in their latest releases.

10 Iconic Fonts and Why You Should Never Use Them

Typography 101: What Small Business Owners Need To Know

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. The old saying "don't judge a book by its cover" is sometimes hard to overcome in the business world. How you present yourself aesthetically is important, no matter how solid your business plan is. It's become crucial for companies to have a presence on the web, whether it's a simple landing page , a blog or some social media profiles.