Branding, graphic design, typography and web design I put the call out on Facebook and Twitter recently to see which typographers and calligraphers were inspiring people at the moment. The results were interesting, because very few of them were “typographers” in the true sense of the word, in that, they don’t “arrange typefaces for print”. What they do, is actually use typographic forms in an artistic, or “illustrative” way. In fact, I was interested to see there are very few recognisable typefaces amongst the works of these artists at all, most of them preferring to hand draw their own letterforms from scratch. I want to thank everybody for their suggestions.
Timba's Illustration Dept. Collaboration piece with illustrator Steven Rhodes for my old design college Shillington. 27 New Awesome Fonts And Free For Beautiful Typography Filed Under: Fonts / Typography, Freebies by fandy January 18, 2011, 19:42 Pleased to be presenting some new fonts option and probably among those fonts not too recent, the fonts is very beautiful and high-quality like Matchbook, Franchise, Typeface Adec and others. And better yet all this for free but please read the license agreement carefully prior to using it, some of which are only for personal use.
Most Popular Commercial Fonts for Web Designers Designers around the world today need to stand apart from the rest when they are working for serious contracts. Web design, posters, brochures and logos all have high expectations so that the company can be on top and be the best in the crowd. Using free fonts will not allow you to do that since they are used by everyone. The obvious and simple solution is to use a professional commercial font that will not be available to everyone. Given below is a list of some of the most popular commercial fonts to consider.
Vidéo / 1 typographe et 110 animateurs Recevoir étapes: Toute l'actualité du design à 16,80 € par mois. S'abonner ›› APPS MOBILES :iPad - iPhoneSuivre étapes: HomeVidéo1 typographe et 110 animateurs Five simple steps to better typography – April 13th, 2005 – Typography, I find, is still a bit of mystery to a lot of designers. The kind of typography I’m talking about is not your typical “What font should I use” typography but rather your “knowing your hanging punctuation from your em-dash” typography. Call me a little bit purist but this bothers me. So, in an attempt to spread the word here’s the first of five simple steps to better typography.
How To Create a Retro Badge/Emblem Style Logo The retro style badge/emblem of logos is a hot trend at the moment, and it’s no surprise why – They’re super cool! We’ve already looked at a showcase of retro and vintage style logos based on circular motifs, now let’s build our own. We’ll put the basic structure together in Illustrator, then give it that aged vintage appearance with some finishing touches in Photoshop. The logo we’ll be creating is for the totally fictional Powerhouse Gym (although I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a gym somewhere with this name!). It combines many of the typical traits of this retro/vintage theme with alternating rings of black and white as well as fine details such as the stars and dots.
Create an Aged Vintage Style Logo Design in Illustrator Follow this step by step Illustrator tutorial to create an aged vintage style logo design. We’re going to take inspiration from generations past, when logos were hand crafted with custom lettering. To achieve the same effect in Illustrator we’ll customise existing fonts to create a old school layout of cool typography. The vintage logo we’ll be creating is based on a fictional jeans company Black Denim Co. The logo uses some of the classic design tricks from the 30’s, 40’s & 50’s to capture that old school look and is finished off with some distressed textures to represent the low-fi print techniques used by our ancestors. Best Free Fonts of 2012 It’s that time of year again, time to recap the best about the year ending and prepare for a new year. Last week we kicked off our “Best of…” series with the Best Best Free UI PSDs of 2012. So for this week, we will show you the best free fonts we saw here in 2012.
“What Font Should I Use?”: Five Principles for Choosing and Using Typefaces - Smashing Magazine Advertisement For many beginners, the task of picking fonts is a mystifying process. There seem to be endless choices — from normal, conventional-looking fonts to novelty candy cane fonts and bunny fonts — with no way of understanding the options, only never-ending lists of categories and recommendations. Selecting the right typeface is a mixture of firm rules and loose intuition, and takes years of experience to develop a feeling for. Ultimate Guide of Web Typography Tutorials, Tips and Best Practices Web typography is nothing but implementing typography on web page. This is very important in order to identify oneself in the designing world. It is equally important that understanding and implementing typography successfully on your web page.