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 Typetester Typetester lets you compare up to three fonts, side-by-side, with whatever sample text you want. HTML Ipsum HTML-Ipsum is a lorem ipsum generator specifically for web design. WP-Typography WP-Typography is a WordPress plugin that helps make your standard WP typography more attractive.

Fontograph - This week's selection This page is updated with a new selection of ten fonts at the end of every week. Don't hesitate to come back often. The old weekly selections can be found in the Archives section of this site. Click the left mouse button on a font's representation to get it or click with the right mouse button and choose 'save link as' in the dialog box. Dingbats Font of the week - Caveman Dingbats : Homepage Main Menu Archives Utilities History Links Fontograph@Chez.com LinkExchange Member

25 Free Retro Fonts Fonts are an essential component of any designer’s repertoire. Fonts are what can tie together a design, a logo, a template and create a coherent branding image. Fonts can make or break a product advertisement, and they are often very difficult to choose. Fonts come in all shapes and sizes, and all sorts of styles, from futuristic to grunge to retro. In this post, Peter Olexa has kindly rounded up and shared 25 excellent free retro fonts for designers to use. Hopefully you find these fonts useful, and let us know what you think in the comments. Anastasia Regular Varieté Conférencier LT Oksana Riesling HawnWedding AtlasSolid Times New Yorker Boogie Nights Aerovias Brasil NF Ginebra Bolds Brownwood NF AthleticTown v0.1 Bleeding Cowboys Gipsiero Wooden Nickel Black SpringGarden-Bo Verve Alternate Volute Vostrey Regular TheRoots Spacearella Advertisement

fonts, typefaces and all things typographical — I love Typography (ILT) 12 Awesomely geeky things we’ve loved in Web design in 2012 Graffiti Fonts - The Worlds #1 Source for Graffiti Fonts on the 10 Most Inspiring Videos about Typography Words aren’t just words. Rather, words portray meanings and can stir up every emotion from anger to lust. As such, designers have immense power over their audiences simply with the fonts they select and the manner in which those fonts are used. The following are ten 10 masterfully composed videos that provide perfect examples of how typefaces can be used to move audiences. 1. Trollback & Co.: Pop! Dark, sexy and inspiring, this video by Trollback & Co. combines fluidity and typography for a stunning effect. (I wish it could be embedded!) 2. Inserting textile lettering into a video shoot rather than digitally incorporating the typography is an inspiring use of creativity as evidenced in this shoot by The Ronin. 3. The list of masterful typography videos wouldn’t be complete without a 3-D piece. 4. This piece, simply titled “Typography,” takes an interesting spin on the scrolling karaoke lyrics found in traditional videos and transforms them into this well composed piece. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

Find Fonts, Try Fonts, Buy Fonts Beautiful web type — the best typefaces from the Google web fonts directory Lucius Annaeus Seneca60 AD Among the numerous faults of those who pass their lives recklessly and without due reflexion, my good friend Liberalis, I should say that there is hardly any one so hurtful to society as this, that we neither know how to bestow or how to receive a benefit. It follows from this that benefits are badly invested, and become bad debts: in these cases it is too late to complain of their not being returned, for they were thrown away when we bestowed them. Nor need we wonder that while the greatest vices are common, none is more common than ingratitude: for this I see is brought about by various causes. The first of these is, that we do not choose worthy persons upon whom to bestow our bounty, but although when we are about to lend money we first make a careful enquiry into the means and habits of life of our debtor, and avoid sowing seed in a worn-out or unfruitful soil, yet without any discrimination we scatter our benefits at random rather than bestow them.

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