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Fount · Identify any web font you see.

Fount · Identify any web font you see.

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Palettes #d9e8c3 #ced181 #7c8f50 #555e32 Basic Tips On Typography For Web Design Sometimes even the smallest details can have a big impact on the way a website looks. Typography is a perfect example of one of those small details. It is also one of the most overlooked design elements on the majority of websites. 19 top fonts in 19 top combinations Sign up and download immediately to take your typography to the next level! This classic contains some great stuff: An exceptional glossary of typography terms Killer tips on establishing typographic color Choosing and using the right typefaces 20 Action-packed info-dense pages!

10 Useful Web Apps for Designers DesignWoop welcomes this guest post by Tomas Laurinavicius. Since the iPhone and iPad entered the market you can hear lots of news about apps for these devices. Tons of apps available today and you can find everything you want. Top 10 Typography Tools for Web Designers Typography happens to be the key factor for web designing these days. It can be quite challenging and fascinating to work with typography. A plethora of tools have come up to let you build your own fonts and insert them into your designs, with ease.

25 Fresh Examples of Beautiful Typeface Combinations in Web Design Typography is a very important part of design and choosing the right type for your design can be very challenging. From print to web layouts, typography is the center piece of a good design and today we gathered a few examples of beautiful typeface combinations in web design to inspire you. In web design, typography can be used in different forms, big bold headers, simple and clean menus, explanatory text and so on. Finding a good combination of typeface is more than only good taste, it's an art Typography is a very important part of design and choosing the right type for your design can be very challenging. Best 20 webfonts from Google Web Fonts and @font-face embedding At the moment there are several ways to use non-system fonts on a website. We will focus on the two least complicated, least expensive systems, Google Web Fonts and the @font-face rule. Fear not, we have not ruled out other paid methods such as Typekit, Fonts.com Web Fonts, Fontdeck, Webtype, WebINK or Fontspring for future posts as they certainly offer high quality typefaces and deserve to be considered. It’s important to be aware that web fonts can generate inadequate visualizations on operating systems which have subpixel rendering turned off in the case of Windows XP. They can also be represented differently depending on the browser used to visualize them.

Butterick’s Practical Typography This is a bold claim, but I stand be­hind it: if you learn and fol­low these five ty­pog­ra­phy rules, you will be a bet­ter ty­pog­ra­pher than 95% of pro­fes­sional writ­ers and 70% of pro­fes­sional de­sign­ers. (The rest of this book will raise you to the 99th per­centile in both categories.) All it takes is ten min­utes—five min­utes to read these rules once, then five min­utes to read them again. Ready? Go.

30 of the Best Web Typography Resources Online It seems there are two camps among web designers: those who embrace web typography, experiment with it, and try new things in virtually all of their designs; and those who avoid it like the plague, opting to use standard, web-safe font stacks with little variation. It also seems like a lot of the designers who fall into the second group wish they were more like the first. The resources below can help you improve your web typography, regardless of which camp you fall into. There are tools for creating unique typography, references and articles that can teach you typographic principles, and plenty of inspiration and news to keep you updated on the state of web typography. Typography Tools

10 New Free Fonts for Your Designs Here at WDL, we love to keep our readers posted on fresh resources, especially when it comes to fonts. Today we gathered a new round of free fonts to spice up your libraries. So feel free to check out all of them and download the ones you like most. Identify Fonts On Websites Easily – Fount Fount is a free-to-use bookmarklet that instantly identifies fonts used in a web page. Once activated, just click on any text and it displays the font name, size and weight in a growl-like notification. It doesn't requires re-activation and any number of text can be clicked repeatedly. For disabling it, clicking the bookmarklet is enough. Fount is a useful and tiny companion for typography inspiration and works in all major browsers.

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