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New High-Quality Free Fonts - Smashing Magazine

New High-Quality Free Fonts - Smashing Magazine
Advertisement Every now and then, we look around, select fresh free high-quality 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 projects. We search for them and find them so that you don’t have to. In this selection, we’re pleased to present Tondu, Banda, Morning Glory, Matilde, Bohema, Weston Round Slab, Highlands, Cabin, Linden Hill and other fonts. Please note that while most fonts are available for commercial projects, some are for personal use only and are clearly marked as such in their descriptions. New High-Quality Free Fonts Bohema Bohema is a unique art-deco typeface with a modern twist. Morning Glory An experimental font by Luis Armesilla, released under a Creative Commons license. Highlands Highlands is a charming slab-serif font that draws inspiration from the US’ good ol’ National Park posters. Black & White (The link was removed due to copyright infringement. (al)

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10 New Free Fonts for Your Delight As you may know, one of our responsibilities here at WDL is to keep you up to date with all the possible resources available… especially when it comes to free fonts! So for this post we gathered 10 new free fonts that will help you give a fresh look to your designs – so check them out. Click on the images to be redirected to the website where you can download the fonts. Enjoy! Black & White Typeface Vhia @font-face Solutions & Suggestions In the last post I talked about the design aspect of using CSS3 @font-face, today I would like to extend this topic to the technical side on implementing custom web fonts. So what are the options for implementing web fonts? I'm going to review the three main methods of incorporating @font-face and explain the pros and cons of each method. 1) CSS3 @font-face

21 Latest Free Fonts for Your Designs It’s essential for Designers to have a good understanding of typography and selection as the importance of typography in design can’t be neglected. The proper selection of typography can convert your normal design into attractive piece of art. Among other things, effective typography manages to achieve three necessary objectives of web designing are Look, Appearance and Outcome which helps you to keep apart from normal wave. Display typography is a potent element in graphic design, where there is less concern for readability and more potential for using type in an artistic manner. Below you’ll find Collection of High-Quality Latest Free Fonts To Enhance Your Designs by which you can save money and focus on making great applications. The basic purpose behind this post is to show you Popular, Artistic and most importantly Free Downloadable font types to save your time searching them online.

Advertising Is Good For You: Typography Ever wonder what common logos look like in countries that don't use the Latin alphabet? Well, you're in luck. Arabic version of CNN logo: Arabic version of FedEx logo: 26 Free Progressive and Experimental Fonts Design is constantly changing and moving forward. However, typography is one aspect of design that seems to resist progression. When it comes to typography , there are standards and traditions that have been around for many years. 42 High Quality Free Fonts For Graphic Designers Resources July 26, 2011 Typefaces are like clothes. They either make us look good or bad.

The 10 best fonts from the Google Webfonts Directory The idea of the Google Webfonts Directory is great: offering everyone free webfonts, which you can include in your website with just one line of code and without worrying about the multiple webfont formats, subsetting, file size, download speed and so on. When the service started in 2010 it offered just a couple of fonts. Today the catalogue has already grown to 250 fonts and Google announced there will even be a lot more fonts in the near future. But let’s face it: Most of the fonts are crap! They are of poor quality, derived from commercial fonts or just downright ugly.

Top 87 Fonts A Designer Should Download Fonts are very useful for a designer. Only if you would take into consideration the typography mania and you have a great argument for the intelligent use of fonts. The web safe fonts seem boring at a certain moment. With sIFR and other web technologies you can insert any font you want in a website and you can give the site a more interesting style. So, let’s say you aaren’t a web designer, you are more a graphic designer, you make >quality logos and other interesting things. You gotta have a serious collection of logos, unless you are a pretty exquisite designer and you’re making a custom font for every project you are working on.

50 Helpful Typography Tools And Resources - Smashing Magazine Advertisement We love beautiful typography, and we appreciate the efforts of designers who come up with great typographic techniques and tools or who just share their knowledge with fellow designers. We are always looking for such resources. We compile them, carefully select the best ones and then prepare them for our round-ups. And now it’s time to present a beautiful fresh dose of typography-related resources. To help you improve the typography in your designs, we’re presenting here useful new articles, tools and resources related to typography.

The Landscape Alphabet – Lithograph Series of 26 Lithograph landscape scenes shaped as letters of the alphabet; rebound in a 20th-century binding. Letter A: upper part composed of three figures around a fire at the edge of a slope to small pond, forming the lower part of the letter; outline by trees. Letter B: a vista on level country, outlined by trees and branches and the edge of a rise with two figures as the bottom part of the letter. Letter C: a castle on cliffs on the left; waves of the sea shaping the lower curve, clouds the upper one. Letter D: a semi-circular landscape scence with mountains in right distance; a crag with trees shaping the left outline of the letter. Letter E: a ruinous gate, the right part of its arch broken, a tree on the left stretching to the right and two men standing on the right pointing at the ruin.

8 New Free Fonts for Your Designs One thing we really like to do here at WDL is to keep you supplied with all the latest and greatest freebies. Whether it’s icons, textures, or e-books, were always on the look out for things that will make you’re life easier. This week we’ve come up with a collection of brand new free fonts that you’re sure to find very useful in your upcoming designs. Morning Glory

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