Flat Icons & Icon Fonts Icon fonts are awesome. Other than the fact that they have to be single color, they are superior to using images as icons in every way. But which do you choose? There are loads of different sets out there. I’m going to attempt to round them all up here and keep this updated (this post has already been updated several times). Pictos Pictos is the icon font that really popularized this whole idea. Symbolset Symbolset is unique in that they turn words into icons for you. Modern Pictograms v1 is free on Font Squirrel. v2 is paid with the complete set at $25 or individual icons as low as $0.50. Pictonic Pictonic also offers a hosted icon service and offers unique pricing ($0.59 per icon). StateFace StateFace has all 50 U.S states as an icon font. Geobats GeoBats is an icon font of the world’s countries. iconSweets 2 Also has a free predecessor. Erler Dingbats A drastic improvement to the standard Dingbats. Tipogram CleanIcons Meteocons For the weather! Ecqlipse 2 Heydings Icons IcoMoon Iconic Gedy Rivera Social
A Collection of 23 Amazing and Free Fonts from Behance I wanted to welcome the New Year by bringing about a collection of amazing fonts from fellow designers. I personally love browsing Behance and finding freebies, so I figured I would create a list of amazing free fonts that the can be found there. Most of these fonts have been created in 2013, some a little before that. However, I want to make sure you all have a wonderful collection of fonts to kick off your projects in the New Year. Free Fonts from Behance Alegreya I have chosen this font because it is a little different then most other popular choices today. Comic Serif Pro Once more we have a serif font that is not made out of straight lines and well cut angles. Born What I like about this serif font is that it is has very clean lines, and it is very simple. Esqadero Most fonts out there are about the Latin alphabets – even this one. Verano Like the image in this font’s accommodating picture suggest, I find this font to have a free spirit of sorts. Salome Flex Canter Biko Parqa Aleo Lovelo Inline
Cool Tools are a Must-Have for Web Designers Admit it, as a designer you are always looking for cool new tips, tools and tricks to enhance your projects and make your life a little easier. Thankfully, new tools, products, apps and even great user interface kits hit the market almost daily. There are also a host of old favorites out there a well – some you may know about and others that you might think about trying for the first time. Here (in no particular order) are a dozen we think you’ll like. Responsive Design Testing We are all thinking responsive design, right? Designmodo’s tool is a great way to see how your site will look in a variety of environments in just seconds. It can be super-difficult to have all the devices you need on hand for visual testing – which is what this tool is. The responsive design testing tool is free! Fake Images Please If you are anything like me, you have a hard time leaving spaces in design projects in hopes that the holes will make sense to others that look at your mockups. Webnote app Stride MyScriptFont
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Neue World - Free to Try Font with 48 Styles + Variable Font – Pangram Pangram Foundry Neue World is a free-to-try super-serif font family with 6 widths and 48 cuts. Inspired by vintage display types often manually squeezed to fit the print size, this typeface has all the widths required to accommodate any format. Its soft curves and refined details create a sense of elegance in its thinner weights, while the hard contrast in its heavier weights creates a bold statement. A beautiful, modern serif that pays homage to its forerunners. The stunning details and versatile possibilities for this font make it an essential addition to any type tool kit. 48 styles with 471 glyphs each + Variable CutNeue World supports 192 latin-based languagesDesigned by Mat Desjardins Commercial Licenses & Usages Choose Family or Weight below Comprehensive licenses are available for Desktop, Web, Social Media, App and Logo usage.
Icon Fonts are Awesome Because you can easily change the size Because you can easily change the color Because you can easily shadow their shape Because they can have transparent knockouts, which work in IE6 unlike alpha transparent pngs. Because you can do all the other stuff image based icons can do, like change opacity or rotate or whatever. You'll be able to do things like add strokes to them with text-stroke or add gradients/textures with background-clip: text; once browser support is a bit deeper. The icon font used on this page is Fico by Lennart Schoors then ran through IcoMoon for custom mappings. Here's a large collection of more choices. How To Use To Enhance a Word Stats <h3><span aria-hidden="true" data-icon="⇝"></span> Stats </h3> How To Use for Stand Alone Icons