50 Extremely Awesome Examples of Typography 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. Typography can in todays terms be so much more than what you find in a book or magazine. Gun by ~mou5e Burdened by ~dylanroscover En Masse by ~clockblock your type by ~O-nay I Speak Alone by ~Gordorca Beauty by *mrgraphicsguy Typography Plate 002 by ~Postpwned I am not myself by ~OrigamiSuicida What Lies Within by ~um0p3pisdn Got a Light by ~DesertViper Typography by ~e-emoo John Lennon in Type by ~Dencii Come Back To Me_1600×1050 by ~Dmaghar Lying by =RenzGFX Steven Paul Jobs by ~dylanroscover Instant by *Shinybinary The Raven by ~swordfishll DUB.TILL.DAWN by ~ICDP Lion by ~rickystuffedpie The Garamond Fox by ~StolenStars Think Differently London 2 by *crymz
30 inspiring type treatments Deviant Typography For a while now, I’ve been tagging type-related work on deviantArt. I thought I’d share them with you, so here’s a sampling: Do you have a favourite? Next up is the week in type. fonts, typefaces and all things typographical — I love Typography (ILT) Lost Type Co-op Generate Your Own Fonts Online Print Template The first thing to do is print the template. We have it available in two common formats; a PDF document and an image. To make optimal use of the size of your paper, we recommend you print out the PDF document. Template as PDF document; available in Letter and A4 PDF paper size is Letter; for the United States and Canada: Template as PDF document Letter (opens in a new window) PDF paper size is A4; for all other countries: Template as PDF document A4 (opens in a new window) Template pages as image If for some reason you are not able to print the above PDF, then open and print the template as image(s): Template as Image Page 1 (opens in a new window) Template as Image Page 2 (opens in a new window) You can also use the above images to draw the letters directly in your image editing software, so even without a printer or scanner you'll be able to make your own fonts. Before you grab a pen, please first go to step 2 and read the instructions about how to fill out the template.
Playtype | Typographer's Glossary Serif: Serif's are semi-structural details on the ends of some of the strokes that make up letters and symbols. A typeface that has serifs is called a serif typeface (or seriffed typeface). Some of the main classifications of Serif type are: Blackletter, Venetian, Garalde, Modern, Slab Serif, Transitional, and Informal. Fonts in each classfication share certain similiar characteristics including the shape or appearance of their serifs. Serif fonts are widely used in traditional printed material such as books and newspapers. 21 Fonts That Shouldn’t Be Free…But Are! | Union Room | Web Design Blog 21 Fonts That Shouldn’t Be Free…But Are! 13 July 2009 by Jordan Hall Using the right type in your designs, both in type and web, is vital to an attractive and successful design. With so many free fonts out there (Da Font currently has over 9000 fonts to choose from) it’s hard to wade through the varying levels of quality available. We’ve picked out some great fonts that shouldn’t be free, but are! 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 21. Resources 50 Incredible Fonts for Professional Print & Web Design | Noupe 30 Fonts That All Designers Must Know & Own | Just Creative Design 37 FREE Must-Have Fonts | Francesco Mugnai 40 Free High Quality Hand Drawn Fonts | Hongkiat.com Thanks for reading, from Union Room Web Design. Back to Blog
30 Fonts Perfect for Vintage and Retro Style Design A Vintage or retro style design is meant to transport it’s audience decades into the past. Designers try to do this by using various design elements such as textures and patterns from a certain time period. But it’s also important to use accurate typography from the time period you are trying to represent. In this post, we’ve rounded up 30 excellent vintage and retro fonts that you can use in your designs. Matchbook Bazar, Medium Embossed Black Ugly Qua Hill House Shrewsbury-Condensed Bold Caslon Seaside Resort Fontleroy Brown Fusty Saddle Dirty Ames Bolton Dymaxion Just Old Fashion Riesling Goudy Bookletter 1911 Opera-Lyrics-Smooth Carnivalee Freakshow Circus Ornate Upper East Side Brandon Grotesque Regular (free until April 15) Ballpark East Market BP Script Rocket Script Arwen Anagram Louisianne Lemon Chicken Anastasia About the Author Henry Jones is a web developer, designer, and entrepreneur with over 14 years of experience.
100 Free Fonts You Should Have in Your Library 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. Below we are introducing a collection of 100 free fonts, which represent vividly only some of the most significant trends in typography, however all of these fonts feature really unique and fresh designs. Clean fonts contain the samples of free fonts of the sans serif family with classic proportions, distinct lines, and clean backgrounds. 1. Delicious-Roman DiavloBook-Regular HattoriHanzo-LightItalic LT Oksana Bold Champagne & Limousines Vegur-Regular Caviar Dreams Bold Ageone Aldo SemiBold Zrnic Zero Threes Yanone Kaffeesatz Regular WendelinHalbfettKursiv SF Quartzite Bold Italic Padaloma Italic Monoglyceride Mabella Moloko Langó Italic Gordon Regular Good Times Decker
Letterform for the Ephemeral on Typography Served The use of people’s body as a display medium in exchange for money has been a fairly common vision in the streets of London for almost two hundred years. One of the only work prospects for non-English speakers involves standing on a busy street while holding printed advertising at the end of a stick or wearing it on boards around their neck, a position known as human billboard). Using the human body as a message display facility is a way of evading a tax on advertising by making it mobile, but also by using the humanity of the subject and its “freedom of speech” as a legal argument. The flexibility of this casual form of communication, combined with the performative potential of togetherness, provided the right components to start thinking of a malleable letterform expressing an ephemeral message. MORE here:
Télécharger Ecofont - Gratuit, Imprimez en économisant de l'encre et protégez la planète ! Koha-Kobli | Sistema integrado de gestión bibliotecaria de fuentes abiertas Free Font Quicksand by Andrew Paglinawan This license can also be found at this permalink: Copyright (c) 2011, Andrew Paglinawan ( andrew.paglinawan@gmail.com), with Reserved Font Name “Quicksand”. This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. —————————————————————————————- SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE Version 1.1 - 26 February 2007—————————————————————————————- PREAMBLE The goals of the Open Font License (OFL) are to stimulate worldwide development of collaborative font projects, to support the font creation efforts of academic and linguistic communities, and to provide a free and open framework in which fonts may be shared and improved in partnership with others. The OFL allows the licensed fonts to be used, studied, modified and redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. “Reserved Font Name” refers to any names specified as such after the copyright statement(s).